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Old 06-08-2007, 08:51 AM   #3
Hadrien
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Originally Posted by Bob Rose View Post

And I guess I'm still very curious about news feeds: Besides just downloading a news feed line-by-line which I guess you can do (somehow) from the web, any way of downloading whole pages from, e.g., Yahoo News or similar ?

Much thanks again,
Bob
You can transform feeds into PDF files using our feature on Feedbooks. If you'd like to transform a whole page into LRF you should try HTML2LRF.

About the formats, there's 2 different categories:
- reflowable: RTF and LRF for the Sony PRS-500. RTF are easy to create but you can't add links, images etc... LRF is much better suited for the reader. With these formats you can easily change the size of the font directly on the reader but you get crappy typesetting (no hyphenation, bad looking justification, sometimes the margins are too large etc...).
- fixed size: PDF files. You can't use a file that wasn't generated for your device, but you get advanced formatting features and good typesetting.

Reflowable seems more suited for e-books, but that's not 100% true. If you're looking for formatting and typesetting as good as a p-book, reflowable format won't suit you. On the other end, if you need different font sizes depending on the light etc... reflowable formats are better.

Last edited by Hadrien; 06-08-2007 at 08:56 AM. Reason: typo
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