Does the Reader support ebooks in Russian or Greek? - Page 2

jessesn · 10-02-2006, 04:54 PM

VVV,

Nope this is coming out as all dashes and commas.

Thanks,
Jesse

vvv · 10-02-2006, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by jessesn

VVV,
Nope this is coming out as all dashes and commas.

Let's try to understand what they did with unicodes. Here there are 5 short books in utf-16
http://www.the-ebook.org/e107/e107_f...s/bd/books.zip

Another Fine Myth.lrf - english
Le Horla.lrf - french (check please if there are the letters é, ù, ê)
Las-Vegas_img.lrf - russian, graphic book.
Las-Vegas.pdf - russian, pdf (the page size is not optimized for Reader)
Las-Vegas.lrf - russian (you already tried it)

jessesn · 10-02-2006, 06:11 PM

Another Fine Myth work fine. It's in english anyways.
Le Horla seems to work fine, I think it's french. The e(dash), u(dash), a(carrot) and e(carrot) all appear fine
Las-Vegas_img read Russian fine, you can even change size. Title appears as blocks though.
Las-Vegas.pdf works fine (page size looks great on the reader).
Las-Vegas.rtf still doesn't work

Don't have a camera at the moment. The Las-Vegas_img.lrf is readable, but it looks blocky. The Las-Vegas.pdf however is excellent quality. How did you make that? What parameters what are you using as a PDF printer?

vvv · 10-02-2006, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by jessesn

Another Fine Myth work fine. It's in english anyways.
Le Horla seems to work fine, I think it's french. The e(dash), u(dash), a(carrot) and e(carrot) all appear fine
Las-Vegas_img read Russian fine, you can even change size. Title appears as blocks though.
Las-Vegas.pdf works fine (page size looks great on the reader).
Las-Vegas.lrf still doesn't work

Well, as I can conclude from your experimental results, there are both good and bad points.

Bad: they cut off the full unicode support in lrf-files killing all the symbols higher than 255

. So, only the western-europe languages are supported in lrf books. But, on the other side, lrf-format is not very suitable for e-books, so it is not a big deal, and we will not cry

.

Good. The multilang works in BookImage lrf (graphic files) and in pdf. For me it is enough, I am satisfied, I will bay Sony Reader.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jessesn

The Las-Vegas.pdf however is excellent quality. How did you make that? What parameters what are you using as a PDF printer?

pdf was made with the iLiad module of my BookDesigner program, 90x120mm pdf page size. The BD update allowing one to assign the user-defined pdf page size will be avalible this week.
I do not think that 90x120mm is optimum for the Reader screen, it was just a quick estimation.

netmate · 10-13-2006, 04:16 AM

Does anyone know if it would be possible to download readable files on PRS-500 from sights like www.lib.ru?

Slava · 10-13-2006, 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by netmate

Does anyone know ... ?

There is no direct support for Russian TXT/RTF files yet. You will need to open them in Word/WordPad and print to PDF with embedded fonts. Also, you will probably need to reformat files a bit first.

netmate · 10-13-2006, 07:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slava

There is no direct support for Russian TXT/RTF files yet. You will need to open them in Word/WordPad and print to PDF with embedded fonts. Also, you will probably need to reformat files a bit first.

Thank You for your input. Unfortunately I'm not much of a computer geek. What do You mean by embedded fonts & reformatting files, is there software that does it?

vstefanyuk · 03-23-2007, 04:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Slava

There is no direct support for Russian TXT/RTF files yet. You will need to open them in Word/WordPad and print to PDF with embedded fonts. Also, you will probably need to reformat files a bit first.

Hello!

So, did you finally test displaying of books in Russian on real device? Does it work?

vstefanyuk · 04-21-2007, 03:33 AM

http://www.the-ebook.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5913

I tried it this morning with using latest firmware, and all is ok

Enjoy

mikolaj · 04-24-2007, 03:19 AM

Worked like a charm!

Thanks boroda/igorsk et al.!

A strange observation:

Actually I wanted to polonize the reader - there are just 12 polish letters missing, so I thought that adding the other 200+ glyphs present in the image, would be a bit of an overkill. I took a minimalistic approach and just added the missing 12 letters to the original sony fonts. Now, with the 12 added letters, each of my fonts (modified with a trial version of Font Creator, to be exact), is a couple of Kbs smaller than the original. I wonder if there is no hidden reason why the originals were less space-effective - maybe they are somehow optimized for speed, or they are simply a bit messy

InspectorGadget · 04-25-2007, 09:11 PM

Is the Rusification outlined in the link above a replacement or an addtion of fonts (or something else entirely)? I don't read or speak Russian but I might want to try this with Greek fonts.

04-21-2007, 03:33 AM	#24
vstefanyuk Connoisseur Posts: 54 Karma: 12 Join Date: Mar 2007	Step-by-step Instructions for Sony Reader Rusification http://www.the-ebook.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5913 I tried it this morning with using latest firmware, and all is ok Enjoy

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10-02-2006, 04:54 PM	#16
jessesn Member Posts: 13 Karma: 36 Join Date: Sep 2006	VVV, Nope this is coming out as all dashes and commas. Thanks, Jesse

10-02-2006, 06:11 PM	#18
jessesn Member Posts: 13 Karma: 36 Join Date: Sep 2006	Another Fine Myth work fine. It's in english anyways. Le Horla seems to work fine, I think it's french. The e(dash), u(dash), a(carrot) and e(carrot) all appear fine Las-Vegas_img read Russian fine, you can even change size. Title appears as blocks though. Las-Vegas.pdf works fine (page size looks great on the reader). Las-Vegas.rtf still doesn't work Don't have a camera at the moment. The Las-Vegas_img.lrf is readable, but it looks blocky. The Las-Vegas.pdf however is excellent quality. How did you make that? What parameters what are you using as a PDF printer?

10-13-2006, 04:16 AM	#20
netmate Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Chicago	Does anyone know if it would be possible to download readable files on PRS-500 from sights like www.lib.ru?

04-24-2007, 03:19 AM	#25
mikolaj Member Posts: 21 Karma: 59 Join Date: Sep 2006	Worked like a charm! Thanks boroda/igorsk et al.! A strange observation: Actually I wanted to polonize the reader - there are just 12 polish letters missing, so I thought that adding the other 200+ glyphs present in the image, would be a bit of an overkill. I took a minimalistic approach and just added the missing 12 letters to the original sony fonts. Now, with the 12 added letters, each of my fonts (modified with a trial version of Font Creator, to be exact), is a couple of Kbs smaller than the original. I wonder if there is no hidden reason why the originals were less space-effective - maybe they are somehow optimized for speed, or they are simply a bit messy

04-25-2007, 09:11 PM	#26
InspectorGadget Enthusiast Posts: 47 Karma: 70 Join Date: Apr 2007 Device: Sony PRS-500	Is the Rusification outlined in the link above a replacement or an addtion of fonts (or something else entirely)? I don't read or speak Russian but I might want to try this with Greek fonts.

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