02-25-2008, 02:23 PM | #1 |
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continuing on ebooks --- wondering 'bout .pdfs
I've been reading lots of ebooks for a long while now --- mostly plain text using ybook, .html files or .pdfs using various readers on a Fujitsu Stylistic. Just wound up w/ a Sony PRS-505 here at work to investigate making ebooks for it, but really not liking the native format for its limitations re: fonts &c., so looking more towards .pdfs.
First I hope to revisit the .pdf of Mike Brotherton's _StarDragon_ which I made a while back: http://www.mikebrotherton.com/archives/002481.html http://www.mikebrotherton.com/novels/stardragon.pdf and I'll probably also revisit Okakura Kakuzo's _The Book of Tea_: http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/willada...ebookoftea.pdf (that won't read on a Sony though, 'cause print is disabled I believe). William |
02-25-2008, 02:37 PM | #2 |
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Hello William
word is Sony is working on a update for the 505 to handle pdf files better, due out soon. |
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02-25-2008, 02:59 PM | #3 | |
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https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13135 I just tried PDFLRF with following options: - portrait mode - trim header - trim page number on the bottom I am attaching a preview screen from PDFLRF showing how the result will look on sony reader |
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02-25-2008, 03:11 PM | #4 |
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For the book of tea: http://www.feedbooks.com/discover/book/991
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02-25-2008, 03:27 PM | #5 |
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Ervserver,
Glad to hear .pdf handling will be even better perhaps. soilwork, Thanks for the preview --- looks just like the pages in a .pdf viewer (they're images, right?) Thanks! William |
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02-25-2008, 03:33 PM | #6 |
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hadrien, interesting the link you provided --- the custom .pdf which they provide is also made w/ (La)TeX --- though w/ some settings I find reprehensible --- I'd be curious as to your thoughts on the appearance of my version versus theirs.
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03-03-2008, 12:10 PM | #7 |
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I hate to say this, but a screen shot from a computer screen is NOT going to show how well it'll look on the actually 6" eink Vizplex screen.
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03-03-2008, 12:18 PM | #8 |
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I uploaded the Book of Tea on our book upload section a while ago. And in lrf. So there's no need to convert it at all..
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03-03-2008, 12:38 PM | #9 |
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I agree. It looks better on Sony reader than the preview screen. However, my point was to show that it is quite easy to convert (print-disabled) PDF files into quite readable LRF books using PDFLRF.
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03-03-2008, 12:44 PM | #10 |
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03-05-2008, 10:29 AM | #11 |
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Patricia, I will respectfully disagree on there being no need of a .pdf version as an option if there's already a .lrf of a given book --- unless I'm the only person in the world who cares about true italic type and nice typesetting in an ebook....
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But there are other readers which handle these things better. For example, the CyBook which I have has proper support for font families and will display "real" italics.
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03-05-2008, 02:48 PM | #13 |
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Does the cyBook have an H&J system which will preclude stacks, widows, orphans and ensure that all lines are nicely set?
If so, do you have authorization to cut a purchase order to get me one at work (it was work which provided me w/ the Sony and the Kindle (but didn't much like the Kindle --- while it has true italics, the linebreaking algorithm which it uses is the typical, brain-dead, one-line at a time thing which has been obsolete since Knuth and Plass's seminal paper). William |
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03-09-2008, 10:17 PM | #15 |
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No, the Gen3 does not have kerning, hyphenation, widow support. It uses a version Mobipocket to read eBooks and Mobipocket supports none of that on it's own.
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