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Originally Posted by CommanderROR
I don't use .rtf books myself at the moment, but I'm sure all the users that actually use .rtf books like theose from Baen will love this.
Keep up the good work!
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Thanks!
I didn't have much use for RTF either but I've found that the Baen RTF downloads are closer to the LIT downloads in terms of readability than the HTML downloads.
I use a LIT parser to make my BBeB books but felt an "open" RTF parser was the way to go for the iLiad. Besides, how hard could it be to whip up an RTF parser.
Today is the third posting and with it all the line breaking and page breaking have been implemented. I also cleaned up an RTF bug with \' processing only to discover my good buddy PDFBox only writes out Standard Encoding PDF's. So most of the \' chars are not available in Standard Encoding, oh well... I'll keep picking at it. But I'm not dying for copyright and tilde n characaters so far...
The right hand margin gets a bit bent since I turned on the indent for first line support. Working on that one too.
Other than that, the Baen titles appear readable to me. Being able to download them and feed them straight through the tool certainly saves me time and fiddling when I buy a new title to read.
BTW Java source can be compiled to .exe's with the GCC compiler for those that don't like Java.