On Feb 9, 2008 10:29 AM, Bob Cherny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis and David, > > The files I am trying to convert come from Baen Books free library.
I have the *complete* Baen Free Library in Plucker format. (The stuff on the web site, and the stuff issued on bound in CDs in various hardcovers. ISO images and Zip files of the CDs may be found at http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ ) > They are available for download in several format. I have previously > downloaded them in rtf and doc format for the laptop and now want to convert > them to the Plucker for the Palm TX. I do have a card reader and can copy > the files directly to the expansion card. Grab the HTML, and convert directly. Don't start with Doc or RTF. Download the "HTML format Zip" selection. Unzip the archive to a directory. I've had best luck pointing Plucker at the <whatever>_toc.html file as the starting point. I find PDA Converter, mentioned in my previous post, a tremendous ease of the process. I use high compression, full color, and full size images linked to a thumbnail. I also change the file name and Plucker display name to something meaningful. My naming convention is Author's initials, series number, title, so the Eric Flint/David Drake "Belisarius" series has titles like EF-DD B1 An Oblique Approach EF-DD B2 In the Heart of Darkness <etc> which lets me sort books by author, then by order in series in Plucker's Library list. > Baen offers many of its books in the "Palm" prc format. I downloaded one to > try it. The Palm software happily treated it like it was supposed to, but > when we read it on the Palm, it included html coding on every page. The PRC format is a MobiPocket book. Mobi essentially uses an encapsulated subset of HTML as the markup language. The Mobi software is freeware these days, but the Palm OS viewer does have a quirk or two. Go here if interested: http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/default.asp?Language=EN > Since the Gutenberg books downloaded in Palm format and the Gutenberg books > converted with the Plucker software to Plucker format work properly and the > Baen books don't, it would seem to me that the issue is in the conversion > and not the viewer and transfer software. > > Since my original post, I have tried having Word save the files as MS DOS > and Unicode text files. Neither of these options seemed to work. > > I do not have Perl, so the demoronizer program is not an option. Perl is available in a free, open source version form ActiveState, at http://preview.tinyurl.com/v6epo but you don't need it for what you are doing. > Any ideas? See above. Plucker is an offline HTML viewer for Palm OS. Start with HTML content. > Thanks! > Bob ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Public archival of this list without permission is prohibited. http://lists.plkr.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
