BookDesigner update

[Yaksha]

Can you please make it so when you click the "New" button it asks if you want to save your work?

I spent quite a while making a lot of changes to a book. I went up to save my changes. But instead of hitting the disk, I hit th piece of paper, they're right next to each other.

Without notice, my book was gone, NewBook had been created with the text "Start to type here".

I tried to get back to my old book, but it only had where I had last hit save. I've never seen a program that didn't ask if you wanted to save your changes before starting a new document (or opening the new document in a new window).

[RWood]

I found out the same thing also by the hard method. Based on a hint that NatCh wrote earlier I learned to select the BookDesigner File option from the Make eBooks menu command. This creates a BD format file in a subdirectory under BookDesigner 4.0 named "bd"

[HarryT]

I suspect that's something we've all found out "the hard way" by now . Yes, please make it ask "are you sure?" when you have a book loaded and you click the "New" button!

[astra]

Originally Posted by Yaksha

I might be able to help you with this as I also had this problem.


What you have to do is go to File -> Print. Select Adobe PDF and print it to a new document.

Open the new document and voila, no more titles every two pages.

Thanks for a piece of advice. I will try it.

[vvv]

Originally Posted by Yaksha

Can you please make it so when you click the "New" button it asks if you want to save your work?

Ok, it will be included to the next update.

[vvv]

Originally Posted by Azayzel

The ones that the Reader and Connect use to see the author, title, Book ID, etc., when loaded. If either cannot be read, the book will be filed by file name. I opened the file in EditLRFMetaGUI and was able to see that BD filled these when it was created; however, for some reason the software nor the device can read them.

Thanks for addressing my question, love the program!

Sorry, but I was not able to reproduce this.

A complete meta-info created by BD consists of: author, title, category (in BD is has a name "genre"), id, and so-called "free text" which corresponds to the book annotation.

The Connect shows (i-button): author, title, category, id.

The Reader device shows: author, title.

The Librie shows: all the items above plus "free text" (unfortunetely they skiped it in Reader).


I can add two more items (Publisher and Classification), but I am doubting that they are of interest...

[jimmyzou]

finally I found the newest BD, I was trying on the old version and had many qiestions...

[astra]

Originally Posted by jimmyzou

finally I found the newest BD, I was trying on the old version and had many qiestions...

...better late than never

[Azayzel]

Originally Posted by vvv

Sorry, but I was not able to reproduce this.

A complete meta-info created by BD consists of: author, title, category (in BD is has a name "genre"), id, and so-called "free text" which corresponds to the book annotation.

The Connect shows (i-button): author, title, category, id.

The Reader device shows: author, title.

The Librie shows: all the items above plus "free text" (unfortunetely they skiped it in Reader).


I can add two more items (Publisher and Classification), but I am doubting that they are of interest...

VVV, Thanks for looking into this, too bad you couldn't reproduce it (has happened the same way for all LIT files I've converted over). I have a hunch that it has something to do with the LIT import, or something along those lines. I've located the latest cLIT binary, so I'll try udating that and generating an LRF to see if it fixes it. If not, I'll try re-installing BD from scratch and see if something might have been broken on install.

Cheers!

[beelzebozo]

What a great program! There's not much it doesn't do.

Thanks so much to you, vvv, and everyone else who contributed their modules and testing time.

Simply outstanding.

[novalis78]

Hey guys, maybe someone can help me with this. I tried to use arial narrow or courier ext to show up some unicode characters like:

ekarūpampi samanupassāmi Nāhaṃ

etc.
When i use lrs2lrf and manually add

<RegistFont fontname="aaa" file="C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\courx.ttf" encoding="TTF" fontfilename="aaa"/>

in the LRS file it works perfect. I can see dots/dashes above and below letters which are part of courier extanded.

Unfortunately with BD i have less luck. Even if i switch to "book language: german" or french for that matter, i see only HTML code in the LRF files generated by BD:

s a m m & # 257;

Does anyone have an idea what i have to change?

[JSWolf]

Decide which style to pick for use with the font you want. Then make your text in that style. When you go to create the LRF file, embed the font and then find the style you chose and change the font to the embedded font. Then set all the other settings for that style the way you want.

Should work.

[adinb]

BTW, I haven't checked lately, but does the latest version of BD5 support the new mobipocket format (.mobi)?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by adinb

BTW, I haven't checked lately, but does the latest version of BD5 support the new mobipocket format (.mobi)?

Another ebook format? Mobipocket, piss off. We don't need it or want it.

Anyway, BD does not support this new format. It does support PRC and PDB. Besides, this is the SONY READER forum. You won't be needing any Mobipocket format except maybe to convert from to LRF.

[lady_morana]

I have bookdesigner installed.

However, I do not use MSWord, I use OpenOffice.

When I try to open a LIT file, It comes up with an error that says

"Operation failed. Check your MS Word Installation"

While I know that MS Word can be used to make LIT files, why do you have to have Word installed to open LIT in book designer?

Is there a work around?