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DHer · 09-08-2006, 10:41 AM

Your bookdesigner is really great.
I mean great like in "i'd really love to donate" great.
Where can i do this?

Especially the pdf import is a really great feature. This makes my epaper version of "Spiegel" readable. (Ok, the hyphenation can't be removed, but that's something i can live with - unlike a A4 pdf displayed on A5)

Now i'm just waiting for the iliad export filter.

vvv · 09-08-2006, 12:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DHer

Your bookdesigner is really great.
I mean great like in "i'd really love to donate" great.
Where can i do this?

Thanks you for your offer. As for myself, this program is just a hobby, so I am not making the money with it. But if you want you can support the development of the portal where the program testing is organized:
info@the-ebook.org

Quote:

Originally Posted by DHer

Especially the pdf import is a really great feature. This makes my epaper version of "Spiegel" readable. (Ok, the hyphenation can't be removed, but that's something i can live with - unlike a A4 pdf displayed on A5)

I have newer worked curiously with pdf import: what is done - it is just a simple pdf text extraction. Maybe when I have a time I will do it better. But now I would recommend you to try another pdf tool included into BD distribution: Tools -> PdfToMany (full Acrobat 5.0 or higher installation required).

vranghel · 09-08-2006, 01:23 PM

It all sounds great! Can't wait to get home and try it!

CommanderROR · 09-08-2006, 04:50 PM

I downloaded the software just now, but it seems it's still the "old" version I had some time ago...no Iliad support yet.
Guess I'll have to wait a while...^^

vranghel · 09-08-2006, 07:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CommanderROR

I downloaded the software just now, but it seems it's still the "old" version I had some time ago...no Iliad support yet.
Guess I'll have to wait a while...^^

Did you use the links provided by vvv?

Quote:

Originally Posted by vvv

1. Download and install the main program
http://www.the-ebook.org/e107/e107_f...Designer40.zip
2. Download and unpack to Program Files/ Book Designer 4.0 directory the last update
http://www.the-ebook.org/e107/e107_f...2006_05_04.zip

OS: Windows 95 - XP (under win 95, 98, Me not all the options will work).

The program uses some MS Word libraries, but they are not included into the distrubution. To install them it is enough to install MS Word 2000 or higher.

The users asked me several times to use Open Office instead of MS Word. Unfortunately it turned out that Open Office cannot process properly some types of MS Word documents/objects. Despite of that I am planning to add an option allowing to use Open Office instead of MS Word, but not right now. In general, it will work but some options will be lost (for example, the processing of some lit books will be disabled, the processing of some types of tables will be wrong, etc).

vvv · 09-08-2006, 09:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CommanderROR

I downloaded the software just now, but it seems it's still the "old" version I had some time ago...no Iliad support yet.
Guess I'll have to wait a while...^^

I have told before that the iLiad module needs about two weeks of the testing. But from that time just one week passed.
Well, it seems the testing is near to be finished, so I hope to make the iLiad module avalible during the next week.

As for the links, the folk wanted to try the program without iLiad support, so I have provided them.

CommanderROR · 09-09-2006, 03:25 AM

@vvv I had guessed as much and from your statement it was pretty clear that Iliad Support wasn't onboard yet.
Since some people were already praising the program, I thought that maybe the Iliad support was already in...^^

Ivan · 09-17-2006, 07:24 AM

Great idea but I just downloaded the bookdesigner 4 and the updated (via the linked). Unfortunately, I am not able to find the Iliad format. I did find Palm, GEB, REB, etc except Iliad format.. Anyone do know what I am missing? I really want to have a better looking pdf display!!

Best, IC

deadite66 · 09-17-2006, 07:34 AM

1. load the book
2. menu "Make ebooks" / iliad
click "make book"
book made will be in pdf format

vvv · 10-05-2006, 05:34 PM

iLiad and Sony Reader owners

Due to the user's requests the following options allowing for more flexible pdf creation have been added to BookDesigner program (make eBooks -> iLiad).

1. User-defined page size ("page size, mm")

2. The MS Word bug related to the "custom page size" has been fixed. Now the pdf's made with the option "pdf printer -> PDFCreator" have correct page sizes (as they chosen in "page size, mm").

3. A possibility to use the inner pdf printer of Open Office ("pdf printer -> Open Office"). This option is recommended for iLiad owners: the pdf's are created faster and they are much more smaller than those ones made with PDFCreator.

4. A possibility to use the pdf printer chosen by the user ("pdf printer -> user: Open Office"). This option is recommended for Sony Reader owners (with PrimoPDF printer). But try to find a proper page size in "page size, mm" (I cannot do it because I have no Sony Reader yet).

The more detailed instruction can be seen pressing the "help" button in "Make iLiad file" window.

Who already has BookDesigner installed.
1. Download and unpack to Program Files/ Book Designer 4.0 directory the last update
http://www.the-ebook.org/e107/e107_f...2006_09_13.zip

Who has no BookDesigner installed.
1. Download and install the main program
http://www.the-ebook.org/e107/e107_f...Designer40.zip
2. Download and unpack to Program Files/ Book Designer 4.0 directory the last update
http://www.the-ebook.org/e107/e107_f...2006_09_13.zip

DHer · 10-06-2006, 05:41 AM

great. now the documents really fit on the screen.

at the moment there's only one thing left bothering me: is there a fast way to strip page numbers left in the document when importing? Everything else just works the way it should.

vvv · 10-06-2006, 12:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DHer

at the moment there's only one thing left bothering me: is there a fast way to strip page numbers left in the document when importing?

Do you mean "when exporting to pdf"? Or something else? Explain in more details please.

DHer · 10-06-2006, 06:49 PM

well, i'm importing a pdf (a quite strange creation history on my side resulted in page numbers being shown as plain text at the end of the page in the pdf file).
In this case the page number is also shown as paragraph in bookdesigner.

I was just wondering if there is a way to remove such regularily occuring lines containing only a number in increasing order.

Actually it doesn't matter too much. i've managed to find an older version as text file where i can strip the page numbers with the regexp equivalent of endline,any amount of numbers,endline.

The rest is working smooth.

vvv · 10-09-2006, 08:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DHer

well, i'm importing a pdf (a quite strange creation history on my side resulted in page numbers being shown as plain text at the end of the page in the pdf file).
In this case the page number is also shown as paragraph in bookdesigner.

Well, I did not make yet an advanced "pdf-cleaner". With time, when I will be back to pdf import, I will try to do it.

But now you can remove all the pdf's page numbers as follows:
1. Tools -> Element Browser
2. short length: 5
3. Choose "short paragraphs" in the upper drop box
4. In the list, select the items which you want to remove (click on the first item, ctrl+click on the last item).
5. re-format selected elements as: delete -> do

shortfellow · 05-03-2007, 06:08 AM

Hi everyone I have just downloaded this program and I am a little lost as to what I should do to make a file that will work properly on my sony reader.
I hope I don't seem like an idiot but none of the icons in the program list anything specifically for the sony reader
So please help me if you can.

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09-08-2006, 10:41 AM	#16
DHer Addict Posts: 261 Karma: 156 Join Date: Jul 2006 Device: iliad	Your bookdesigner is really great. I mean great like in "i'd really love to donate" great. Where can i do this? Especially the pdf import is a really great feature. This makes my epaper version of "Spiegel" readable. (Ok, the hyphenation can't be removed, but that's something i can live with - unlike a A4 pdf displayed on A5) Now i'm just waiting for the iliad export filter.

09-08-2006, 01:23 PM	#18
vranghel Addict Posts: 285 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Vancouver, Canada Device: Proud Iliad owner	It all sounds great! Can't wait to get home and try it!

09-08-2006, 04:50 PM	#19
CommanderROR eink fanatic Posts: 2,022 Karma: 4924 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Germany Device: STAReBOOK, iRex Iliad, Sony 505, Kindle 2	I downloaded the software just now, but it seems it's still the "old" version I had some time ago...no Iliad support yet. Guess I'll have to wait a while...^^

09-09-2006, 03:25 AM	#22
CommanderROR eink fanatic Posts: 2,022 Karma: 4924 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Germany Device: STAReBOOK, iRex Iliad, Sony 505, Kindle 2	@vvv I had guessed as much and from your statement it was pretty clear that Iliad Support wasn't onboard yet. Since some people were already praising the program, I thought that maybe the Iliad support was already in...^^

09-17-2006, 07:24 AM	#23
Ivan Connoisseur Posts: 51 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2006	Great idea but I just downloaded the bookdesigner 4 and the updated (via the linked). Unfortunately, I am not able to find the Iliad format. I did find Palm, GEB, REB, etc except Iliad format.. Anyone do know what I am missing? I really want to have a better looking pdf display!! Best, IC

09-17-2006, 07:34 AM	#24
deadite66 Groupie Posts: 197 Karma: 16 Join Date: Apr 2006 Device: irex iliad, uk Kindle gen3	1. load the book 2. menu "Make ebooks" / iliad click "make book" book made will be in pdf format

10-05-2006, 05:34 PM	#25
vvv Zealot Posts: 137 Karma: 1936 Join Date: Aug 2006 Device: iLiad, Librie, REB1100, GEB2150, GEB1150, etc	iLiad and Sony Reader owners Due to the user's requests the following options allowing for more flexible pdf creation have been added to BookDesigner program (make eBooks -> iLiad). 1. User-defined page size ("page size, mm") 2. The MS Word bug related to the "custom page size" has been fixed. Now the pdf's made with the option "pdf printer -> PDFCreator" have correct page sizes (as they chosen in "page size, mm"). 3. A possibility to use the inner pdf printer of Open Office ("pdf printer -> Open Office"). This option is recommended for iLiad owners: the pdf's are created faster and they are much more smaller than those ones made with PDFCreator. 4. A possibility to use the pdf printer chosen by the user ("pdf printer -> user: Open Office"). This option is recommended for Sony Reader owners (with PrimoPDF printer). But try to find a proper page size in "page size, mm" (I cannot do it because I have no Sony Reader yet). The more detailed instruction can be seen pressing the "help" button in "Make iLiad file" window. Who already has BookDesigner installed. 1. Download and unpack to Program Files/ Book Designer 4.0 directory the last update http://www.the-ebook.org/e107/e107_f...2006_09_13.zip Who has no BookDesigner installed. 1. Download and install the main program http://www.the-ebook.org/e107/e107_f...Designer40.zip 2. Download and unpack to Program Files/ Book Designer 4.0 directory the last update http://www.the-ebook.org/e107/e107_f...2006_09_13.zip

10-06-2006, 05:41 AM	#26
DHer Addict Posts: 261 Karma: 156 Join Date: Jul 2006 Device: iliad	great. now the documents really fit on the screen. at the moment there's only one thing left bothering me: is there a fast way to strip page numbers left in the document when importing? Everything else just works the way it should.

10-06-2006, 06:49 PM	#28
DHer Addict Posts: 261 Karma: 156 Join Date: Jul 2006 Device: iliad	well, i'm importing a pdf (a quite strange creation history on my side resulted in page numbers being shown as plain text at the end of the page in the pdf file). In this case the page number is also shown as paragraph in bookdesigner. I was just wondering if there is a way to remove such regularily occuring lines containing only a number in increasing order. Actually it doesn't matter too much. i've managed to find an older version as text file where i can strip the page numbers with the regexp equivalent of endline,any amount of numbers,endline. The rest is working smooth.

05-03-2007, 06:08 AM	#30
shortfellow Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2007 Device: sony reader prs 500	Hi everyone I have just downloaded this program and I am a little lost as to what I should do to make a file that will work properly on my sony reader. I hope I don't seem like an idiot but none of the icons in the program list anything specifically for the sony reader So please help me if you can.

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