I have been trying to make content for the Sony Reader and have
become a little discouraged. It seems that the Reader does not
support rtf very well - see the post by Libreguy
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/librie/message/2832
and the discussion in the thread
Does the Reader support ebooks in Russian or Greek?
In my hands rtf files are little better than text files - The
only advantage I can see is that rtf files recognize a hard
page break -
My interest has been in scanned books presented as PDB's.
Even if they are prepared in a size to fit the Reader they
do not display very well.
To get some files to try I typed in a short story from one of
my scanned books - a story by the Canadian humorist Stephen
Leacock (out of copyright in the US). I typed into Word for Windows
preceding each paragraph with 3 spaces and ending each paragraph
with the enter button. I then set the page size to 3.5 x 4.5 inches,
added a header, two pictures, and printed it via the Adobe Acrobat
printer. Adobe's web site gives instructions on how to do this.
A nice PDB was produced. However it does not scale and one has
to make it a good size for reading - something that will not suit
all.
Saving the file as rtf and displaying it on the Reader loses
the headers, pictures, font, everything. It displays almost exactly
like the text file.
I've attached the original scanned PDB (4x6 inches), the PDB from Word
printed with Adobe Acrobat, and the text file.
Files are: text To_Nature_and_Back_Again.txt 16.5 K
scanned PDB To_Nature_and_Back_Again_Scanned.pdb 769 K
and PDB from Word To_Nature_and_Back_Again_Word 152 K
I'm hoping someone can make a better rtf file from the text or can tell
me how to do so. I would like headers at least and some variation in font size.
Even so I'm reluctant to go to OCR as I want to preserve the look and
feel of these old books.