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They fixed the Program to convert .LRFs to other formats!
http://www.processtext.com/abcsonylrf.html
Before it was usable but painstaking because it wouldn't get the Author and Title info from the .lrf it would just use ABC and Untitled. I got an email saying they'd changed that, so for people like me converting everything to .Epub(or any of a bunch of formats) It rocks! I Highly recommend it. |
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I'm not sure why you think this new version is good. It's awful.
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No graphics are kept, no formatting, garbage throughout the converted document. This is using an LRF converted from LIT with Calibre. I don't recall if this is worse then 1.07, but 1.09 is absolutely god awful drek. It doesn't work to even get clean text out of the LRF I gave it regardless of formatting or graphics. |
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What would you recommend instead, I'd love to hear of something better?
If Caliber did it it would be totally painless, and I'd be even happier with it ![]() but that's not happening any time soon I think. As far as I know, it's the only converter that does .lrf->other formats it at all. Despite the occasional annoying characters I'm happy not having to manually edit every author and title of batches of books I'm converting to read. I didn't notice it being quite that bad, I had around 2 errors per chapter in Dune, usually a random character at the start of a paragraph or end of a line. However that wasn't a .lrf from Caliber, I wonder if that made a difference? I don't know what program was used to create it. I'll modify my statement a bit. Being the only program to convert .LRFs, I highly recommend it if you are trying to get rid of your .lrf files. |
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This is why I don't see a compelling need for tools to convert FROM LRF. BOb |
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Jon likes "curly quotes".
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One must understand that Jon's dislike of the Process Text Group and their line of ABC Amber products is well known and long standing.
I have used their products -- both the free ones like the Sony Converter and the purchased converters -- for many years and they have saved me many times in their format conversion. They have saved many, many hours of my time. I have found that Yernar is responsive and concerned about the quality and usability of his tools. I am a client and am not part of Process Text Group. |
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![]() I tried searching here but totally missed that. how does it do for conversion errors? I quite like the ABC converter's interface, and the only real reason I could see to switch now would be if LRFTools made fewer errors(none would be great ![]() Quote:
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I've already spent time collecting and sorting them, not realizing I'd want to switch formats. Otherwise I would have just done what I do now(download Epub if available, .lit+.lrf if not) |
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