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Old 09-01-2009, 08:01 AM   #16
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So there was a similar bug with chapter titles as there was with chapter content. If the document was too big, the chapters and titles got all screwed up, but now the titles are fixed as well.

If you have book in process, you might see that chapter titles are empty. In this case just re-enter them and there won't be any screw-ups any more
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I moved the thread out of the Writer's Forum. It doesn't belong there.
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Old 09-01-2009, 02:18 PM   #18
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I don't create them with CutePDF; I create them with Acrobat Pro. Which, of course, is not freely available. I think there are freeware bookmark tools available, but I'm not sure what they are, and I'm certain they're not as smooth & simple as using Acrobat's conversion process.

But I suspect anyone who wants PDF ebooks for 6" screens, is going to want them custom formatted--if they didn't care about bold & italic, or choice of fonts & pt sizes, just wanted page splits and bookmarks per chapter, they can use LRF, Mobi or Epub files, depending on their reader.

I'm not sure who falls in the niche of wanting ebooks in PDF format, with no choice of fonts, pt size, or margins, and no ability to include text formatting or pictures. The point of PDF is that it has all those features; for plain text with just the chapters marked, the other formats do much better.
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I have to disagree based on my trial and errors I have come to stumble upon. I just created a book into PDF with my app in just 5 minutes of copy/paste that has font size optimized for 6" screen and margins as well and look damn good on my BeBook. I have tried to convert the same book with numerous different formats, and it always had some weird line breaks and other formatting issues... with just plain text. No matter if it was LIT or MOBI to EPUB. I spent more time searching for good solution to get good looking book optimized for my BeBook than it took me to code this app.

It is, after all, a user's own preference what format to use and how to obtain that format. There are tons of software doing the same thing that my application does, but it's about choise. You choose what you use and I just offer yet another option. Take it or leave it.
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You can register a new one. As there is no need for email, there is no way of obtaining it as it is encrypted and I cannot find it out.
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PDF is not an eBook format. So having your program called PDF Book Creator is incorrect.

PDF is a waste of time these days. You might create a PDF for say your 5" Opus, V5, or 300. But move that PDF to say a Kindle DX, Sony Daily Edition, Plastic Logic, any iRex and it looks awful. PDF being fixed is the issue. You have to create it for a fixed screen size and when you view it on other screen szies, it's not nice.
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PDF is not an eBook format.
It has its drawbacks, but it is an ebook format, just like others. It's not good for distribution and portability (though the P stands for "portable"), but those are not compulsory features of an ebook.

DRMed files, the Kindle format, the LRF format, etc. are even less portable: they only work in particular devices, and yet they are ebooks, just like PDFs are ebooks. But not all ebooks have the same pros and cons.
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You took words out of my mouth Jellby, thanks!
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Just released a new version of the application.

Now it is called eBook Creator, because now you can preview and publish books in EPUB format as well.

The EPUB portion is currently in beta phase, so I would like to have some testing done before really making it a full feature. So if you will, please go ahead and test the EPUB as well
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Question a couple of questions

Spaze, et al:

New to the site, and working thru the terminology. A couple of questions:

(1) By "create an ebook", does this also mean taking PDF files of, say, articles on a topic and creating a "book" in which these articles are grouped using a common table of contents?

(2) Will this app take an existing PDF and enable me to create a table of contents where one now does not exist?

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OK, I just tried to create a Word document sized 9x12cm and copy/pasted http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101.html into it. Everything worked fine until I tried to print it out with CutePDF. The output PDF is sized A4 with the content centerized with 9x12cm in dimension. I set the paper size in CutePDF to 9x12cm as well, but nothing better came out of it.
CutePDF free version, though allows you to use the advanced setting, it will not affect your output. Your output will still be A4 size. You must upgrade to Pro version in order to use the advanced version.

Correction (15 Feb 2010): Cutepdf free version can produce any custom page size output.

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You are correct. If you need formatting and such, perhaps using Word and a printer driver is the way to do it. This app is just another way of creating a book and if you are creating one from another format by copy/paste, then it is more time cosuming at the current state. I, for one, have not found it hard to copy/paste 20 chapters of a book but again this is a prefence of mine

The reason why I did this in the first place was, because copy/paste text from websites for example into Word creates more formatting and text-decoration issues than just creating plain text. Word takes all buying viagra online uk the formatting into consideration and when you paste the content to it, in lots of cases page breaks are messed up, text-decorations and such. Cleaning these up takes more phentermine very cheap time than copy/paste into this application and let it create constant formatted PDF books.

To be honest, I don't even know how currently I could implement full-features HTML code into this app. You are correct about the formatting lacks, but as I said I will look into this and see what I can come up with.




This program is very good! Thanks!

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Hi, were can i download this app?
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