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Originally Posted by Eclipse
Hi all,
I just got my first e-reader and now I'm faced with a delicate problem. I would like to use it for reading technical documentations. They are done in MS-word and contain pictures, tables etc. I have tried Calibre, Sigil and seem to get a decent result, but, either it takes way to long time to convert (manually fixing all the styles in Word etc or the result is poor on my reader).
I saw some posts about eScape/Open Office but it doesn't support pictures.
Anyone who can give tips or hints on this problem?
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Originally Posted by frabjous
Why not just export them to PDF right from Word?
Yeah, yeah, everyone says that PDFs don't work well on your reader. This is untrue if you actually create the PDF properly sized for your reader. Sony gives very good instructions for how to do that in this document. |
I will second Frabjous' statement. I make PDFs with StarOffice (the proprietary version of OpenOffice.org) for my ereader, sized for the ereader's screen, and they render perfectly, including the pictures.
The PDFs that are a problem for an ereader tend to be ones not formatted for the ereader's screen, especially ones formatted for a large page size. As an example, when I put a PDF formatted for standard typing paper (8.5 inches by 11 inches) on my ereader, it shrinks the entire page so that it fits on my screen with text too small to read. Although reflow is available with my ereader, the results are less that satisfactory.
As far as making PDF ebooks with OpenOffice.org, what I do is make them as OpenDocument files and then export them as PDFs. If you set the document's page size the same as your ereader's screen, when you page preview the document and/or set the view to "Print Layout" you will see exactly what the PDF ebook will look like on your ereader. This makes it easy to locate and correct formatting problems.