chm2sony-pdf

[krtekz]

So far, I find the following method quite satisfying for reading chm files on Sony Reader, especially for programming related chm documents with a lot of code listings. For these docs, a critical requirement is to preserve the format of code listings. The new PDF reflow feature works well for 'pure text' docs, but might destroys codes.

Step 1: Convert chm to pdf of size exactly the same as reader's viewable area, in landscape mode.
Step 2: Rotate the pdf 90 degrees anticlockwise.

This way, docs are shown in landscape without switching to reader's landscape mode. And no reflow is needed so original format is intact.

I use chm2pdf and pdftk. They are available in standard Debian/Ubuntu repository and might also be in other distributions' repositories. The simple script is here, usage: chm2sonypdf file.chm

#!/bin/sh
set -x
chm2pdf --webpage --continuous --textfont helvetica --fontsize 10 --size 4.54x3.47in --no-numbered --gray --header . --footer . --no-toc --top 0 --right 0 --bottom 0 --left 0 $1 $1.tmp.pdf
pdftk $1.tmp.pdf cat 1-endW output $1.sony.pdf
rm -f $1.tmp.pdf

BTW, all the internal links are preserved.

sample file attached:

[lordmax]

Hi

Really good idea.

I've tryied it out and work fine.
Thanks.