BookDesigner Suggestions

[JSWolf]

That's what makes the Sony Reader so good. Having tools like Book Designer and Libprs500 with html2lrf. We get to choose the best tool for the job and if we like the results then we are good to goto enjoy reading whatever it is we want.

[L1Wulf]

Hmm... I was hoping to see some actual BD suggestions and observations here.

[NatCh]

I'm afraid that wandering off topic is always a hazard around here.

[Roy White]

Here's a suggestion to help find the text you want if you want to create a link or add an illustration to a specific page. Get your cursor somehwere in the text of the book by left clicking, then press Ctrl-F, a window will come up and if you type in the text you want to jump to and hit next, it jumps immediately to that word or sentence in the text.

[Fubrite]

I would like the ability to define my own elements... don't know how difficult that would be or even if it's possible, but that would be really useful.

[Roy White]

Use the Book DEsigner Element tools dealio. You can use the pull down list to find all the elements in a book, then convert them to other elements by selecting etc. Use the shift key to select the entire list or the CTRL key to choose the ones you weant to convert, then use the pull down list at the bottom of the element tools window to change it to waht you want. Will save hours!

[Roy White]

I posted this on another link somewehre on this board but I think it might be helpful for people who are trying to learn BD so Here it is on this thread...

I spent about an hour, maybe an hour and a half yesterday going through the text of Les Miserables. I was using the book element tool to find the titles. And Book Designer had assigned the "Chapter 1" etc. (Text in the raw TXT file I got from gutenberg) as Chapter titles. (Which means that on the bottom of the reader, (Chapter 1) Would appear... Unacceptabe, (To me) and first and foremost I'm making these for me and sharing them here.... because i didnt want to take the time to delete the "Chapter 22" text, (I made the compromise of leaving the text so it would appear on the reader but i didnt want it on the bottom of each page in the chapter) ((I hope everyone is following)) I was using the 'subtitle button to change the Chapter 1 text into subtitles, then going to the REAL chapter titles below, highlighting it and clicking "Title so THAT would read at the bottom of each page in that chapter in the reader.. A long tedious process indeed. Finally when i finished i clicked make book and had too many other programs opened. the program crashed, I lost EVERYTHING!!!!!!!! I almost said a bad word! My wife was waiting patiently to go on a motorcycle ride so i left to go.. When i came home i thought. Ok.. I'm just going to make the book so i can read it and i will deal with the stupid Chapter 16 at the bottom of the page on the reader.. I opoened elements again just for the heck of it and noticed a button at the bottom of the element window that said. "Change element to... " A bell rung. So.. This is awesome.. I had the element finder find all the titles, They were listed as the hated 'Chapter 77" etc on the element window. (And in les miserable theres about 15 million chapters because Hugo wrote every 6 paragraphs and started a new chapter in this book) I selected the top one, held down shift, selected the bottom one highlighting them all.. Then clicked the drop down list at the bottom.. found delete.. Clicked.. Dudes and dudettes. ALL those stupid "Chapter 44 etc, dissapeared at one fell swoop! Then... I had the element tool find all Subtitles... (The REAL chapter titles) Selected all, then CHANGED THEM TO TITLES at one fell swoop. Walla! in exactly 28 seconds accomplished what took me over an hour!!!! A west texas yell flowed out of my mouth! The dogs barked for blocks around my house.