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Vaporware · 01-19-2007, 03:22 PM

Ok I know there are a ton of converters out there. I also know that most of them are good at only one thing and there are trade-offs in using one tool over another.

What is the best way to go from point A (rtf, txt, html, lit, pdf)to point B (BBeB or LRF) right now? I know tools will refine themselves over the next few months, but I don't want to have to learn 30 tools just to put a document on the reader.

Currently I'm just formatting a word document (page breaks, font issues, justification), saving it as an RTF then uploading it to the reader through the connect software.

so .doc->.rtf->connect is my current path.

.pdf can go
.pdf -> PDFrasterfarian -> BBeB?
.pdf -> JAP ->BBeB?

But I haven't really been able to figure those out yet (I'm working on it). I heard that book designer is some sort of awesome formatting tool, but I dont' even know where to start looking that way.

Another thing I wanted to ask. I've downloaded some gutenburg books, but they are formatted Terribly for the reader. How do I reflow books to fix things like fixed justification (where there is a return at the end of each line to set a fixed length)?

Overall, I guess I'm just asking for help on how to get started. I would like to eventually do things like add proper footnotes and linked tables of contents but I'd be happy with just being able to set proper margins and fonts for now.

01-19-2007, 03:22 PM	#1
Vaporware Not here yet. Posts: 49 Karma: 11 Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA Device: ETI-2 Ebook Reader	Content Conversion Ok I know there are a ton of converters out there. I also know that most of them are good at only one thing and there are trade-offs in using one tool over another. What is the best way to go from point A (rtf, txt, html, lit, pdf)to point B (BBeB or LRF) right now? I know tools will refine themselves over the next few months, but I don't want to have to learn 30 tools just to put a document on the reader. Currently I'm just formatting a word document (page breaks, font issues, justification), saving it as an RTF then uploading it to the reader through the connect software. so .doc->.rtf->connect is my current path. .pdf can go .pdf -> PDFrasterfarian -> BBeB? .pdf -> JAP ->BBeB? But I haven't really been able to figure those out yet (I'm working on it). I heard that book designer is some sort of awesome formatting tool, but I dont' even know where to start looking that way. Another thing I wanted to ask. I've downloaded some gutenburg books, but they are formatted Terribly for the reader. How do I reflow books to fix things like fixed justification (where there is a return at the end of each line to set a fixed length)? Overall, I guess I'm just asking for help on how to get started. I would like to eventually do things like add proper footnotes and linked tables of contents but I'd be happy with just being able to set proper margins and fonts for now.