Wikipedia CD on the Reader - Page 2

hn_88 · 01-28-2007, 12:55 AM

Well, the soft deadline has expired, but now if anyone has any ideas on doing the conversion, I can try them out at leisure. (To recap, what I want to do is to put the SOS Wikipedia CD into the reader with links intact - i.e. convert a large number of html files into a single document on the Reader, pdf or lrf, with links intact.)

hn_88 · 02-12-2007, 03:21 AM

OK, since no-one has come forward with any suggestions, here is my latest update.

Tried ABC Amber Text Merger to make pdf / rtf from the wikipedia cd files on my hard disk. The Merger has a "number of files" limitation, so it could not add all the wikipedia CD files at once - crashed, saying index out of range. So, went back to letter-by-letter. Found it to be slower than HTML2LRF and also the output was uglier. Also, file size for wpcd_a.rtf was 23 MB while the html files in the folder totalled only 5 MB.

Tried other pdf tools, like pdf995. Did not create clickable links.

So I will make the HTML2LRF concatenations for each alphabet and post the links here.

RWood · 02-12-2007, 05:33 AM

Try Book Designer 5.0 from the MobileRead Wiki Conversion Page

hn_88 · 02-13-2007, 09:11 AM

Here's the link to the files I have made - http://esnips.com/web/Wikipedialrf

In case someone succeeds in making a single file out of it with links intact, please do post. My experiments with Book Designer and other tools are posted on my blog, with links from the first post in this thread.
( http://hnsws.blogspot.com/2007/01/tr...into-sony.html and http://hnsws.blogspot.com/2007/01/up...okcreator.html )

02-13-2007, 09:11 AM	#19
hn_88 Connoisseur Posts: 51 Karma: 158 Join Date: Jan 2007 Device: Sony Reader PRS-500	Here's the link to the files I have made - http://esnips.com/web/Wikipedialrf In case someone succeeds in making a single file out of it with links intact, please do post. My experiments with Book Designer and other tools are posted on my blog, with links from the first post in this thread. ( http://hnsws.blogspot.com/2007/01/tr...into-sony.html and http://hnsws.blogspot.com/2007/01/up...okcreator.html ) Last edited by hn_88; 02-13-2007 at 09:25 AM.

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01-28-2007, 12:55 AM	#16
hn_88 Connoisseur Posts: 51 Karma: 158 Join Date: Jan 2007 Device: Sony Reader PRS-500	Well, the soft deadline has expired, but now if anyone has any ideas on doing the conversion, I can try them out at leisure. (To recap, what I want to do is to put the SOS Wikipedia CD into the reader with links intact - i.e. convert a large number of html files into a single document on the Reader, pdf or lrf, with links intact.)

02-12-2007, 03:21 AM	#17
hn_88 Connoisseur Posts: 51 Karma: 158 Join Date: Jan 2007 Device: Sony Reader PRS-500	OK, since no-one has come forward with any suggestions, here is my latest update. Tried ABC Amber Text Merger to make pdf / rtf from the wikipedia cd files on my hard disk. The Merger has a "number of files" limitation, so it could not add all the wikipedia CD files at once - crashed, saying index out of range. So, went back to letter-by-letter. Found it to be slower than HTML2LRF and also the output was uglier. Also, file size for wpcd_a.rtf was 23 MB while the html files in the folder totalled only 5 MB. Tried other pdf tools, like pdf995. Did not create clickable links. So I will make the HTML2LRF concatenations for each alphabet and post the links here.

02-12-2007, 05:33 AM	#18
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Try Book Designer 5.0 from the MobileRead Wiki Conversion Page

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