Reformat MS Word DOC
Some of the ebook conversion articles I made in the past mentioned editing a MS Word DOC file before proceeding to another conversion. In this case, MS Word will serve as the “bridge” for another conversion. The reason is because most ebook converters can convert a DOC file directly. I use MS Word as the “bridge file” in converting repligo to other ebook formats. I also use this procedure to convert PDF to LIT, without purchasing commercial ebook converters.
The image shown below is a copied text from a PDF file pasted to MS Word blank document. Most often than not, you will have the same result. Of course we cannot convert it at this point and needs to reformat.
Choppy lines is obvious breaking the lines in unexpected places, this is because the original file had encoding (if its from html before PDF), paragraph and/or line breaks. That’s why it doesn’t come out looking exactly as the copied file.
The show/hide button of MS Word is a great tool to see the markings of breaks, it is located on your toolbar. When this button is clicked, you will see the symbol to every line breaks. It is easier to see exactly where you need to edit.
Manual removing of line breaks needs a lot of patience and time especially if you’ll be editing a big ebook file size. That would mean go to the symbol and delete… a repetitive process.
The easier way is to click edit from your toolbar, then choose replace. A pop-up window will show.
Find what: ^p or click special and choose paragraph mark
Replace with: ^s or click special and choose nonbreaking space
Then click Find Next button, when target line reach, click Replace button. Continue doing this until you reach the end of the document.
For other desired formatting depends on your file, choose and click from the special button in the Find and Replace window. If you plan to convert the DOC file to PRC afterwards, you might find Prepare MS Word DOC useful.
PDF Or RGO?
Its a known fact that PDF is the best document for PC. It is also possible to view PDF file on our cellphones and other handheld devices. There are many adobe reader or pdf reader available for mobile phones. The perfect quality of PDF file on PC is the same on a cellphone but you have to scroll or navigate around to view a single PDF document page. Take note that a PDF with lots of images can be viewed depends on mobile phones RAM (random access memory) size, older mobile phones could have a problem of “close application”.
PDF files are optimized for large screens of a PC monitor. The better the quality of a pdf file, the larger the file size. BUT it is the best source file on ebook conversion to other ebook format. Even if its NOT mobile friendly.
Repligo readers caters not for PC alone but to other handheld devices such as PALM, Nokia (S60 1st and 2nd edition), Blackberry, Android Smartphone etc. Repligo has smaller file size but with the same quality of a pdf file. Based on my experience (on Nokia phones), image can be seen only if you will view the whole page, the image is small and impossible to see the details of the image. But on PC, repligo file has the same quality as PDF except for smaller file size.
Would you install both PDF and Repligo viewers on your PC? On your handheld device? I have both of them on PC and mobile. Lets face it, PDF reader is a important on every PC. I’m using Repligo reader for PC to test my converted ebooks before transferring them on my mobile. No, I don’t read RGO files on my PC.
Will You Give Up Repligo eBooks?
Some mobile eBookworms prefer to use Repligo as their mobile reader. But the developer had stopped releasing mobile reader updates for symbian 60 since 2004. I’m still and will be using repligo on my symbian phone until such time that my cellphone serves its purpose. But, if I have to give up my current Nokia unit and have to change my unit, I might change my mobile ebook reader and my love for repligo just like any mobile eBookworms.
Ever wonder what will you do to your precious repligo ebook collection? I admit, I’m taking consideration the repligo compatibility in choosing a new mobile. That was before, I changed my mind. If there’s no repligo updates, I don’t want to end up reading my repligo ebooks on my PC. I would rather find a way to save those files… and converting them to other format is the only solution I can think of. My post Convert Repligo To Other Formats is worthy enough in this case or you could check out other repligo conversion posts.
Few years back when I started on mobile ebook reading and choosing the appropriate ebook reader for me and my handheld device, the developer have conversion tools to convert other formats to repligo format. I believe there was no developer who made a software for reversing the conversion or converting repligo to other format. Imagine that it could be easier to convert those precious files in “one click”. How I wish there is such software.
There’s no harm on trying… make repligo as source file or forget your collection?
Mobile eBook… PageRank… Copybloggers
I haven’t seen my blog status in #1 rank since I lost my PageRank. I’m always on #3, sometimes on #2. I got excited last night for this progress, I hope I’m on the right path already. In one way or another, I felt the decreased visitors since I received my first PR update for 2009. I’m not ready that time since I have technical issues with my computer for a month and haven’t concentrated updating my blog. I learned my lessons and hoping to regain my PR. I’m still working on it and trying to maintain what I did in the past plus a little experiment.
Some hotshot bloggers might considered my site as a niche blog, I consider this blog as my baby. My first real blog after years of moblogging (mobile blogging)… I personally write, research, tested softwares and application for handling mobile ebooks to have an update for this blog. On the other hand, I’m sad that there are “auto content” blogs that have some of my contents. Yes, they link back (nofollow), my concern is it might prolong my waiting for PR for my contents being copied. And they have PageRank… is that fair?
BTW, my blog is also welcome for test units/review units of handheld devices and ebook reader devices. Please contact me and send me the details.
