Hi,
I know not a lot of people here will make use of the application I’ve just made... My problem was with reading eBooks in Czech. Since this language uses code page win1250, Reader doesn’t display it properly. After updating fonts, I could read Unicode TXT files and LRF, but RTF was still cursed. Maybe I did not search right. BookDesigner with LRF output is powerfull, but the results are not very nice.
So I found the way to encode the problematic characters in RTF so that Reader can display them. Here is my simple converter...
www.roomarranger.com/reader/rtfunicode.zip
What it does:
- Converts non-ANSI characters to Unicode
- Changes left alignment to full alignment and indents the first paragraph line (bonus option)
- Adds Author tag to RTF (bonus option)
You can use this application even only for those two bonuses, but please have in mind that the application is very, very simple and stupid. I haven’t tested it so much. If you encounter any problems with your RTF, just contact me and I will try to fix it. I’m also interested if it works with Cyrillic or not.
My process of preparing eBook is following: I start with PDB file, use ABC Amber Palm Converter (font Times New Roman, 16pt) to convert to RTF and finally use RTF Unicode Converter to change the text alignment to full (a.k.a. justify) and add author’s name.
I hope Sony will open up LRF specification soon...