Touch TXT & PDF Display Problems

caclclo · 07-15-2012, 08:06 AM

Hello together,

i try to make myself short, and sorry for my bad english.

i use kobo touch reader mainly for displaying strategy guides from gamefaqs.com which are in TXT format. displaying these on the computer,smartphone etc is no problem as they keep their specific layout intented by the author. my problem is, that i cannot get them displaying equally on my kobo touch. as you can see on the attached picture, the layout looks cramped and bound to the left side. i tried many things to display the files properly but without success. the best solution i achieved so far, was converting the txt file to pdf. this was the only success so far in keeping the layout from txt file. the problem however is, that the letter size is too small. you can zoom but turning the page takes forever.
i also tried calibre software to convert the txt file but the layout was always completely destroyed.

i hope to find help here or maybe there is someone who found a solution to this issue.

if there are questions please ask,

thank you very much

BWinmill · 07-15-2012, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by caclclo

i use kobo touch reader mainly for displaying strategy guides from gamefaqs.com which are in TXT format.

The basic problem is that the Kobo Touch ships with proportional fonts, while your guides are formatted for monospace fonts.

You may want to search these forums for instructions on adding monospace fonts to your Touch.

Antiriad2097 · 07-15-2012, 01:41 PM

Alternatively, viewing the page in landscape format rather than the normal portrait mode may be sufficient to avoid the line wrapping issue that is causing the worst problems.

You'd still need monospaced fonts for the ASCII art to work properly (like the Darksiders 'logo' in your example picture).

caclclo · 07-15-2012, 04:05 PM

hi,

landscape mode is not available in txt format. with pdf, switching to landscape mode does not help,as i have to zoom a lot and moving the page is very slow.

i looked for an instruction to add alternate fonds to the kobo but did not get by.

where do i find these so called monospaced fonds and will this keep the layout of the txt documents?

thanks again

murg · 07-15-2012, 08:00 PM

You'll never get this to work right without making the font too small to read. Or without re-editing the text.

The text is designed for an 80 column screen, the Touch is a lot less than that. It looks like the text is 80 characters of text followed by a hard carriage return/line feed.

You would have to take the content and convert it to an ePub (or similar). You'd also have to convert the things like lines of equal signs into html type constructs like <hr>. And of course, use a fixed width font.

07-15-2012, 08:06 AM	#1
caclclo Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kobo Touch	TXT & PDF Display Problems Hello together, i try to make myself short, and sorry for my bad english. i use kobo touch reader mainly for displaying strategy guides from gamefaqs.com which are in TXT format. displaying these on the computer,smartphone etc is no problem as they keep their specific layout intented by the author. my problem is, that i cannot get them displaying equally on my kobo touch. as you can see on the attached picture, the layout looks cramped and bound to the left side. i tried many things to display the files properly but without success. the best solution i achieved so far, was converting the txt file to pdf. this was the only success so far in keeping the layout from txt file. the problem however is, that the letter size is too small. you can zoom but turning the page takes forever. i also tried calibre software to convert the txt file but the layout was always completely destroyed. i hope to find help here or maybe there is someone who found a solution to this issue. if there are questions please ask, thank you very much Attached Thumbnails

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07-15-2012, 01:41 PM	#3
Antiriad2097 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: PRS300 & Kobo Touch	Alternatively, viewing the page in landscape format rather than the normal portrait mode may be sufficient to avoid the line wrapping issue that is causing the worst problems. You'd still need monospaced fonts for the ASCII art to work properly (like the Darksiders 'logo' in your example picture).

07-15-2012, 04:05 PM	#4
caclclo Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kobo Touch	hi, landscape mode is not available in txt format. with pdf, switching to landscape mode does not help,as i have to zoom a lot and moving the page is very slow. i looked for an instruction to add alternate fonds to the kobo but did not get by. where do i find these so called monospaced fonds and will this keep the layout of the txt documents? thanks again

07-15-2012, 08:00 PM	#5
murg No Comment Posts: 3,240 Karma: 23878043 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Australia Device: Kobo: Not just an eReader, it's an adventure!	You'll never get this to work right without making the font too small to read. Or without re-editing the text. The text is designed for an 80 column screen, the Touch is a lot less than that. It looks like the text is 80 characters of text followed by a hard carriage return/line feed. You would have to take the content and convert it to an ePub (or similar). You'd also have to convert the things like lines of equal signs into html type constructs like <hr>. And of course, use a fixed width font.

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