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Once it's properly installed and working, you just go to the Make eBooks menu and select Sony Reader (LRF) and you get a dialog as to how to make them, set the options and go. Quote:
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04-03-2008, 10:31 AM | #17 | |
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Most devices (read: all of the current ones) are going to have the sort of trouble you're describing. The main root of it is that PDF doesn't like to play well with others. A note on libprs500: it seems that a lot of folks are getting much more satisfactory results out of that app than what you're clearly getting. That suggests to me that there's something different between what you're doing with it than what others are doing. Exploring that may help you address what you're running into. Assuming, of course, that the problem isn't just PDF related. From what you're saying, it sounds like the files you're starting with may have some particularly funky formatting issues that aren't showing up in Word (or whatever) but that are throwing your actual conversions off. Since you clearly have a need for better PDF support, the iLiad might be a better fit for you. It's not perfect for PDF, by any means, but it does a reasonably good job with displaying them natively, owing to its larger display. The iLiad forums have a good bit of discussion along those lines, to give you a better feel for what it can and can't do. Oh, yeah, to address a question you had above about BookDesigner that I don't think anyone's answered: there's not a "save to LRF" type of operation, to make an LRF you use the "Generate LRF" button in the toolbar. It' looks like the funky "AE" symbol that's on the PRS500 (but not on the 505). If you hover your mouse over the toolbar buttons you'll see the help pop-up with text along those lines. There's a great tutorial posted here that might be of help to you, as well. |
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04-09-2008, 07:08 PM | #18 |
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I've had great results on all sorts of texts, and text with graphics, with the following:
First of all, start with something *other* than a pdf file. The exception would be if you own Acrobat, then you can convert the pdf to plain text in many cases (as long as the pdf isn't just a collection of images...). Open your file in Microsoft Word and take a good look at it. Often you can spruce things up without too much trouble --- you might even try doing an "autoformat" on the text and see if that helps. You can always back out if you don't want to work with the results. Once you've got things looking reasonably half-decent in Word, save your file as an html file. Open the html file in BookDesigner and do some further editing with respect to titles, author, subtitles, table of contents, etc., until you've got it the way you want it. Save the results as a "lit" file. This is important. Libprs500 works especially well with "lit" as the import type. Open up the lit file in libprs500 (latest version!), make some minor adjustments (I like to have libprs500 insert a blank line between paragraphs), and convert the file over to an lrf file. Libprs500 also gives you the option to save both your lit file, the lrf file, an opf file, and a jpg or some other graphics file to a single directory for storage and/or later use. I've done about fifty conversions in the last two weeks, including some truly *nasty* un/poorly formatted stuff, and everything has come out great. Kovid Goyal has done an absolutely fantastic job on libprs500, and BookDesigner is a must-have as well. The only thing I'm wishing and waiting for is for Kovid to implement a complete conversion/export option to .epub. He certainly has the brains and ability to do it! As a postscript, a great tool for cleaning up and formatting text is something called Interparse4. If you google it you can still find it out there... Tim |
04-11-2008, 03:57 PM | #19 |
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Ok, example here. And this is not even the worst, just average bad.
I REPEAT. The PDF is totally well formatted. It is not the input material that is at fault. Please look at the PDF - NOTHING WRONG WITH IT. Lrf loses most formatting nonetheless. |
04-11-2008, 03:59 PM | #20 |
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I now have a trial of Adobe professional installed, but I could not find how to resize the pages for the Sony Reader. Any ideas?
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04-11-2008, 05:09 PM | #21 |
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The first time I tries BookDesigner I missed the patch and could not use it to create LRF. Now I applied the patch and it WORKS!!!!
And BD actually makes a decent format. Thanks!!! The only drawback is that each book has to be converted 1 by 1. |
04-11-2008, 05:57 PM | #22 |
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All Baen books are available in LRF from Webscriptions. This particular one is even available for free on Baen CD, though not in LRF. Hovewer, it can be easily converted to LRF, for example by using lit2lrf on the Microsoft Reader LIT file.
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/1...%20I/index.htm http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/1...20II/index.htm |
04-11-2008, 07:14 PM | #23 | |
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04-14-2008, 08:12 AM | #24 |
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BlackVoid, the problem is that the formatting in the .pdf is encoded as positional informatin (place this character in this font at these x,y coordinates), so one needs to analyse that so as to determine where paragraphs begin / end &c.
Marcel Weiher wrote a utility, TextLightning for Mac OS X (ob. discl. it's shareware and I was a beta tester) and there're other tools which do this, and there are a few others, e.g., SolidPDF for Windows. --- unless it's a ``tagged'' .pdf where such is embedded in the file structure. William |
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