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dhbailey · 03-22-2007, 02:23 PM

It's the Librie Text Assistant. When I start the program and open a PG text file and drag the window wider, the text doesn't reflow because of all the hard returns. Clicking the PROCESS button at the bottom causes the text to reflow, but it retains the paragraphs just fine.

I got it from the Librie group at Yahoogroups. Go to the Files section, then go to the Content Generation folder and download LibrieTextAssistant_Win_01.zip.

Since I don't have my Sony Reader yet, what I do is to open a file in Librie Text Assist and click the Process button, and then click the SAVE AS button and save it to a different folder. Doing it like this saves it as a text file for further work in other applications, but from what I saw when I brought some sample files into Borders to test them, this is all I'll need to do to my thousands of PG files to make them very readable on my Reader when I finally save up the money to buy it.

I can see the difference in the Connect software, which I've already downloaded and installed to experiment with.

Librie Text Assistant beats all the macros and word-processing programs combined, it is so easy -- one click to open the file (with however many other clicks necessary to navigate to the file you want to open) one click to Process, one click to save as. If I weren't so hung up on keeping the original PG files intact (I may surrender and decide I won't want them that way ever again and simply click SAVE) for a total of 3 clicks (plus however many are necessary to open the file itself.

03-22-2007, 02:23 PM	#61
dhbailey Guru Posts: 604 Karma: 733 Join Date: Mar 2007 Device: HP iPAQ211 / PRS 500, 700 and 505	It's the Librie Text Assistant. When I start the program and open a PG text file and drag the window wider, the text doesn't reflow because of all the hard returns. Clicking the PROCESS button at the bottom causes the text to reflow, but it retains the paragraphs just fine. I got it from the Librie group at Yahoogroups. Go to the Files section, then go to the Content Generation folder and download LibrieTextAssistant_Win_01.zip. Since I don't have my Sony Reader yet, what I do is to open a file in Librie Text Assist and click the Process button, and then click the SAVE AS button and save it to a different folder. Doing it like this saves it as a text file for further work in other applications, but from what I saw when I brought some sample files into Borders to test them, this is all I'll need to do to my thousands of PG files to make them very readable on my Reader when I finally save up the money to buy it. I can see the difference in the Connect software, which I've already downloaded and installed to experiment with. Librie Text Assistant beats all the macros and word-processing programs combined, it is so easy -- one click to open the file (with however many other clicks necessary to navigate to the file you want to open) one click to Process, one click to save as. If I weren't so hung up on keeping the original PG files intact (I may surrender and decide I won't want them that way ever again and simply click SAVE) for a total of 3 clicks (plus however many are necessary to open the file itself.