Bookdesigner 4.0 on Linux help!

mickid · 01-11-2009, 06:27 PM

I just received my eb1150 for Xmas &, after trying Librarian, Publisher, & Book Designer, choose Book Designer: Librarian gave me a lot of ? in places that it didn't understand the text, which was annoying to read, I just found Publisher confusing, & Book Designer gave me a lot of control over the text & was easy to use. Well, I ended up switching to Ubuntu a few days ago & am slowly getting either replacements for software or getting my Windows programs running.

When I installed BD under wine, it didn't want to do much at first; it would just say it was "...Loading" and not do anything else. After searching, I found out on a Russian BB that I had to load IE6. I loaded that & could load at least pdf, LIT, & plain text files. Html files, with the exception of the one that comes with it would give me an error that I needed MS Word. I didn't have MS word on XP, so I didn't see why I needed it now. I decided to just open files that weren't pdf or text in Open Office & paste them into a blank Book Designer page & found out that that won't work either. I saved a file as a text & it left 4 B's in front of EVERY paragraph. I decided to use Find/Replace & it just closed down, although, in all honesty, txt files never showed up like that in Book Designer before &, having never needed to use Find/Replace, I don't know if it EVER worked without MS Word. I installed all of the Winetricks fonts & riched files, & it still didn't work. I was searching for a way to maybe install Wordpad, since I did have that on my XP system, to see if that would fix the problem. One of the things I read said it would need files listed in vxrun6 for Winetricks, so installed that & I can now load HTML files but can still not copy & paste into it.

I have the latest Book Designer 4.0 with the 7/30 upgrade. Any help would be appreciated.

TIA!

Patricia · 01-11-2009, 08:11 PM

I believe that you need to have Word on your computer for BD to work properly.
You don't need to use it; but it needs to be there.

mickid · 01-11-2009, 11:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Patricia

I believe that you need to have Word on your computer for BD to work properly.
You don't need to use it; but it needs to be there.

I'm pretty sure that that is not the problem since I had been using it for several weeks on Win XP & was able to copy & paste, & I have never installed or used MS Word. Any other ideas?

TIA!

01-11-2009, 06:27 PM	#1
mickid Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Ebookwise 1150	Bookdesigner 4.0 on Linux help! I just received my eb1150 for Xmas &, after trying Librarian, Publisher, & Book Designer, choose Book Designer: Librarian gave me a lot of ? in places that it didn't understand the text, which was annoying to read, I just found Publisher confusing, & Book Designer gave me a lot of control over the text & was easy to use. Well, I ended up switching to Ubuntu a few days ago & am slowly getting either replacements for software or getting my Windows programs running. When I installed BD under wine, it didn't want to do much at first; it would just say it was "...Loading" and not do anything else. After searching, I found out on a Russian BB that I had to load IE6. I loaded that & could load at least pdf, LIT, & plain text files. Html files, with the exception of the one that comes with it would give me an error that I needed MS Word. I didn't have MS word on XP, so I didn't see why I needed it now. I decided to just open files that weren't pdf or text in Open Office & paste them into a blank Book Designer page & found out that that won't work either. I saved a file as a text & it left 4 B's in front of EVERY paragraph. I decided to use Find/Replace & it just closed down, although, in all honesty, txt files never showed up like that in Book Designer before &, having never needed to use Find/Replace, I don't know if it EVER worked without MS Word. I installed all of the Winetricks fonts & riched files, & it still didn't work. I was searching for a way to maybe install Wordpad, since I did have that on my XP system, to see if that would fix the problem. One of the things I read said it would need files listed in vxrun6 for Winetricks, so installed that & I can now load HTML files but can still not copy & paste into it. I have the latest Book Designer 4.0 with the 7/30 upgrade. Any help would be appreciated. TIA!

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01-11-2009, 08:11 PM	#2
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	I believe that you need to have Word on your computer for BD to work properly. You don't need to use it; but it needs to be there.

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