![]() ![]() Be aware you need Lyx for this file to run. If you like, you can use this Lyx-file: File:Lyx whysiwym editor.zip. Test your reader software, if it can show.Convert this document to HTML, RTF, PDF.pictures and all that other fancy stuff ).Best a LaTeX or LyX document in a separate directory with.If you like to test you should have the following documents on your side: Most of what you read here I had found in the excellent mobile read forums - here about E-Book formats. How do we like to do the E-Book-conversion: on a reader with e-ink display, it might be impossible to read the document, because the fonts are to small or not of ideal shape (sans serif).a program cannot easily get the text flow (split page layout).you cannot alter the font size in a PDF.Reasons for why you might want to convert your documents are: Why do you think the internet has consists on the markup language HTML? PDF is an excellent print media but not (!) a format that should be used reading documents on a computer display. In HTML the Markup (the "M" in HTML) assign a header a "header" tag and therefore the header is and remains a header, no matter what page format, script size you are applying to it! an OCR programm, scan the PDF, and do a "guess" with certain algorithm. We ourself with our brain can do this very well, a computer has to use e.g. What dows that mean practically?: In a PDF document, the computer - not you - cannot distinguich any more if a text passage is pure text, which format is has, if it is a header. Speaking in technical terms one would say, the entropy of a PDF-document is - compared to HTML, SGML, or XML, or even LaTeX - very low. Years ago, when a began dealing with LaTeX - my preferred text processing method - I already had been aware of the problem that the information about the semantics of the given text in a PDF document is extremely low, if not exists at all any more. ![]() Why PDF is not a good choice for e-reader devices It is not possible to simply throw a PDF to your device being sacrificed. What I didn't know: this technology also needs a special way of reading your documents. The e-Ink-technology was what kept my interest. I didn't know, how much work it will cost myself to dive deep into the theme. this article uses Linux (Ubuntu 11.10) and a lot of bash shell scripting.tips might be applicable to other devices but could be obsolte for future - better -display technologies.this article is based on the prerequisites to work with an e-book reader with an e-Ink display.I bought an eBook-Reader last chrismas (2011), a PocketBook Pro 912 with an open source linux operating system and firmware and an e-Ink Display. 3.4.2.1 Scrapbook and Calibre - a dream team.3.4 From HTML to epub or mobi (or htmlz).3.3 From PDF to epub, reflow and rescanning of PDF.3.1.3 A word on djvu and rescanning of PDF.3.1.1.4 Unattended batch conversion with briss.3.1.1.2 Wrapper for the java program briss.3.1.1 Cropping the pages is the most sophisticated solution.1.1 Why PDF is not a good choice for e-reader devices. ![]()
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