Tipps for Totts ... Sony PRS-505

[kbarnsda]

Hello!

I want to use the 505 to keep tech notes, information etc in "mini books".
It is such a wonderful device, I am determined to use it to the fullest!
I am currently experimenting with screen captures saved as .png files.
This seems to be fine except a bear to edit.
Question/s.
Is there a simple editor that would work for a beginner?
My goal is to have everything in a BBeB format because
I read somewhere that less power was used reading them.
Thank you!!!!
New update....
Perhaps this will help other new Sony 505 owners.
I did want to edit this however and provide some use for the post....
I have spent 5 days on google, wilki, and this forum. I have not found
any easy WYSIWYG type editor for BBeB (LRF). I am sure someone
is working on one ...somewere. The Russian program is the closest to
what would work for me. I will keep reading and looking.
This reminds me of the early days trying to use Edlin as a word processor.

Here are a few links I found helpful...

https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/PRS505

http://code.google.com/p/bbebinder/wiki/OtherLrfTools

https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_conversion

[kbarnsda]

Hello! Please give me your feedback if you have the time.

I think I finally have a VERY EASY way to get my notes, address books etc into my 505.
This would allow me to make updates etc in the programs I know and use daily
and then print directly to a PDF file which loads right on the 505.

I have tried it on Excell documents, Word documents and print screens on webb pages.
The trial version puts a small acknowledgment on the
top corner of each page. The cost is $35.

My phone book is 26 point and is easy to read on the reader.

Using this approach, I don't have to learn any new programs....I just print
to a different printer. ( Virtual PDF ).

Here is the users manual for the program with FAB.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/support...tor_Manual.pdf

Here is the actual trial version of the program.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/addon/m...ator_setup.exe

[Patricia]

Ok. But how exactly is this $35 program better than the free stuff available?

I just made my address book as an rtf file in 16-point Times New Roman and loaded it straight into the Reader. For novels, Book designer is free. And many people here have used lib2prs for a number of purposes.

[shousa]

Originally Posted by Patricia

Ok. But how exactly is this $35 program better than the free stuff available?

I just made my address book as an rtf file in 16-point Times New Roman and loaded it straight into the Reader. For novels, Book designer is free. And many people here have used lib2prs for a number of purposes.

Totally 100% agree. I don't get it either.

[JSWolf]

Why would we want to pay $35 when we have free tools available to allow us to have addresses, notes or whatever we want?

[kbarnsda]

Originally Posted by Patricia

Ok. But how exactly is this $35 program better than the free stuff available?

I just made my address book as an rtf file in 16-point Times New Roman and loaded it straight into the Reader. For novels, Book designer is free. And many people here have used lib2prs for a number of purposes.

I tried that a week ago and I thought it did not work. I looked everywhere for the file and assumed the program spit it out.

In hindsight, I had downloaded about 60 books and the file was renamed in the eBook listing and I did not notice it.

I just a few moments ago created another (RTF) file and saved it as Test. It was renamed to the first line of text in the file when eBook Library imported it. Problem solved....

That is just way too simple. I do feel a little stupid. Fortunately I did not buy the program. Thanks for your help.

k

[Patricia]

You can change the title of rtf files easily. Right-click on the file icon and select 'rename'. Then give it the title that you want.

[kacir]

I personally use OpenOffice.org to create rtf versions of the text.

Works great. Works even on Linux and FreeBSD.

Try using some sans-serif font. Like Helvetica or Arial.

[kbarnsda]

Originally Posted by Patricia

You can change the title of rtf files easily. Right-click on the file icon and select 'rename'. Then give it the title that you want.

Patricia, you are absolutely correct. This is what caused me the problem in the first place however!

I used F2, changed the name from test to AAAAA hopefully to find it but it did not rename the file inside eBook Library. I had it originally saved on the desktop. I just tried moving it to the default location and it still will not rename.

Now that I know there is a problem within eBook Library, I have a work around.... I make my first line on my original file the title I want to stick with forever... and all is fine. Changes are saved correctly etc. I cannot for the life of me figure out why the name doesn't change WITHIN eBookLibrary. Somewhere there is a link to the file. I tried deleting the original text that the file was named from, renaming the file, putting another line of text in, and leaving a blank line. All resulted in the same thing. The file remained the same name as it was originally automatically named which was the first line of the original file text. This is what made me think that the file was not saved in the first place.

No need to fix...just a FYI in case anyone else wonders where the file went.
Thanks again for your help!!


Edit:...
ps..
kacir, I am downloading open office to give it a shot. Thanks for the tip. I have a Unix partition that I flash to.

NatCh...that was it...Thanks! It was a snap to edit...

[NatCh]

If you edit the RTF using NotePad (not WordPad) you can adjust the meta data manually.

For the title, the string to look for is called (imaginatively) "{\title " and is followed by the meta data title.

You can edit those directly in Word via the document properties, but Word bloats files so horribly, and WordPad strips out the meta data (which can actually be handy if you just want the filename to be the title that shows up on the Reader).

There are details on manually editing the meta data here.