BookDesigner help please

lizzielou · 11-16-2020, 11:14 AM

I am sorry if this is not the right place to ask this. I have a very slow internet service and so cannot look through all the pages to find the answer.

I am using BookDesgner 5 to format my books to lrf for my Sony PRS-505. I have been happily using this with Windows 7 but now have been forced to upgrade to Windows 10. I have installed BookDesigner but when I load one of my Word rtf files (always used previously) I get an error when it gets to the 'making basic transformations' stage saying that the transformation has failed.

Can anyone help please? I know this is old software but I love the lrf as it gives a proper page number relating to the screen and so do not want to go to epub.

Quoth · 11-20-2020, 09:14 AM

Use docx -> Calibre -> epub2
epub2 -> Calibre -> lrf

lizzielou · 11-27-2020, 03:45 AM

Thank you very much for your help. I have managed to get BookDesigner to work by giving full permissions to the BookDesigner folder.

11-16-2020, 11:14 AM	#1
lizzielou Connoisseur Posts: 65 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: No longer near a beach in Spain - back in the UK Device: Sony PRS-505, 300, 350 & 650	BookDesigner help please I am sorry if this is not the right place to ask this. I have a very slow internet service and so cannot look through all the pages to find the answer. I am using BookDesgner 5 to format my books to lrf for my Sony PRS-505. I have been happily using this with Windows 7 but now have been forced to upgrade to Windows 10. I have installed BookDesigner but when I load one of my Word rtf files (always used previously) I get an error when it gets to the 'making basic transformations' stage saying that the transformation has failed. Can anyone help please? I know this is old software but I love the lrf as it gives a proper page number relating to the screen and so do not want to go to epub. Last edited by lizzielou; 11-16-2020 at 11:21 AM.

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11-20-2020, 09:14 AM	#2
Quoth the rook, bossing Never. Posts: 11,096 Karma: 85874891 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper11	Use docx -> Calibre -> epub2 epub2 -> Calibre -> lrf

11-27-2020, 03:45 AM	#3
lizzielou Connoisseur Posts: 65 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: No longer near a beach in Spain - back in the UK Device: Sony PRS-505, 300, 350 & 650	Thank you very much for your help. I have managed to get BookDesigner to work by giving full permissions to the BookDesigner folder.