Reconvert lrf to lrf

[carpii]

Is there a way I can reconvert an lrf book.
I want it in lrf format, but I want to repaginate it using my own font and margin settings

Thanks

[kovidgoyal]

search for lrftools or use lrf2lrs + lrs2lrf from calibre

[Amalthia]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

search for lrftools or use lrf2lrs + lrs2lrf from calibre

is the LRF2LRS a command line tool? if so what do we type in? And what directory do we need to be in? Or is all this information in the manual?

[kovidgoyal]

Command line

lrf2lrs myfile.lrf

lrs2lrf myfile.lrs

[Amalthia]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Command line

lrf2lrs myfile.lrf

lrs2lrf myfile.lrs

thanks! this helps a lot. Are you able to change font size using this tool?

[ShellShock]

Originally Posted by Amalthia

thanks! this helps a lot. Are you able to change font size using this tool?

lrf2lrs creates an LRS file, which is in xml format--that is, you can edit it using a text editor. If you are reasonably confident with xml it is possible to manually edit the xml to change margins and font sizes. You can then use lrs2lrf to convert your edited LRS file back to LRF.

There a number of tools like lrftools which do something similar automatically. They tend to use lrf2lrs and lrs2lrf under the covers. Because they did not do exactly what I wanted I ended up programming my own--this is just a question of writing some code to tweak the xml before calling lrs2lrf to convert back to an LRF.

One thing to note--lrs2lrf is not perfect. The resulting LRF is not exactly the same as the original LRF, even if you do not make any changes to the intermediate LRS file. For example, any page headers are lost by lrs2lrf.

[Amalthia]

Originally Posted by ShellShock

lrf2lrs creates an LRS file, which is in xml format--that is, you can edit it using a text editor. If you are reasonably confident with xml it is possible to manually edit the xml to change margins and font sizes. You can then use lrs2lrf to convert your edited LRS file back to LRF.

There a number of tools like lrftools which do something similar automatically. They tend to use lrf2lrs and lrs2lrf under the covers. Because they did not do exactly what I wanted I ended up programming my own--this is just a question of writing some code to tweak the xml before calling lrs2lrf to convert back to an LRF.

One thing to note--lrs2lrf is not perfect. The resulting LRF is not exactly the same as the original LRF, even if you do not make any changes to the intermediate LRS file. For example, any page headers are lost by lrs2lrf.

thanks for the warning about page headers. I'm beginning to think it'll just be easier to re-create the LRF file with the PRC copy I have. Except I can't get the PRC file to open in Book Designer in order to fix things (like removing the crap cover they inserted) And when I try converting in Calibre I end up with both covers. Except one is super tiny for some reason.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Amalthia

thanks for the warning about page headers. I'm beginning to think it'll just be easier to re-create the LRF file with the PRC copy I have. Except I can't get the PRC file to open in Book Designer in order to fix things (like removing the crap cover they inserted) And when I try converting in Calibre I end up with both covers. Except one is super tiny for some reason.

Use mobi2oeb to convert the PRC to HTML and then load the HTML into Book Designer and format/edit from there.

[Amalthia]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Use mobi2oeb to convert the PRC to HTML and then load the HTML into Book Designer and format/edit from there.

Is this in Calibre or a seperate tool?

Thanks so much for helping!

[Amalthia]

I think I spoke too soon. I'm in my c directory in the command prompt window but the commands aren't doing anything. I get a message saying command is not recognized.

So where exactly do I run this command line thing at???? I'm not a programmer. And the tutorial doesn't say.

edit: figured it out! apparently I had a typo that made the line not work.