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?
Convert RGO To PDF
This is just one of the several cases that the person involved need to convert repligo files to PDF. In this case, it is clear that Repligo Windows (repligo reader for PC) was already installed to PC. The problem is how to convert RGO to PDF.
I downloaded some ebooks and some of them are in .rgo format. I have downloaded the repligo viewer software already but that only lets me view the file i want to be able to convert these .rgo files to pdf. How do I do that? Is there any software out there that I can use to do it?
Let me mention that there are many repligo fanatics out there that had made their ebooks converted into repligo and shared them to other eBookworms, some have shared them to forums, blogs, websites and other resources. But its also a fact that the developer also stop releasing updated versions since 2004. I’m talking about Repligo for Symbian 60 and they didn’t release versions for latest Nokia mobile phones.
Why converting it to PDF? You could read Why PDF is the commonly asked ebook format, an old post but worthy on this topic. I just want to add that most ebook conversion softwares accepts PDF as source file.
Going back, do you know that the easiest repligo conversion is making it PDF? Its a “one step conversion” process, no editing involved otherwise you want to edit the repligo file before converting it PDF. You could use any PDF maker that serves as add-in to your Microsoft Office such as doPDF, CutePDF, TinyPDF to name a few. Don’t worry, they are freewares and safe. If you already installed Repligo Windows, just click “File”, “Print” the choose your desired PDF Maker or add-in.
Don’t forget to compare the repligo source file and the PDF output file because this procedure is not 100% perfect. I’ve tried converting some of my RGO file to PDF, one failed to be converted fully because of big file size, repligo file is 184 pages and converted PDF is only 84 pages. Another RGO file with 79 pages was converted successfully.
I guess its better to purchase a PDF maker software than using freewares, there no guarantee though because I haven’t tried on this case. However, for smaller RGO files, they were successfully converted. Its worth a try, its easy.
For unsuccessful conversion, you can use again your freeware PDF maker “add-in” software. But we have to add few steps. Open your repligo file on repligo viewer, edit, select all and paste it to MS Word blank document. You will be needing a lot of patience on editing the new DOC file, you have to omit all the unnecessary line breaks and will consume you time. Again, patience. Then print it as PDF.
Convert Repligo (RGO) To Mobipocket PRC
To mobile eBookworms, the most common favorites are using Mobireader or Mobipocket and Repligo. Its sad to realized that Cerience had stopped updating Repligo reader for symbians and concentrated on latest handheld device such as Blackberry. Repligo reader on my symbian phone is version 2.1 year 2000-04. BUT there are still repligo lovers like me who prefer RGO than other formats. And there are some repligo fanatics switched to Mobipocket reader. Or there are some that replaced their handheld device and repligo is no longer compatible with their new symbian phones. And they started to love PRC…
Given the situation, putting my foot on their shoes, I could have lots of repligo files that I need to be converted to PRC format so I would use only “one” mobile application on my handheld device.
Things needed: Repligo Windows for PC, Mobipocket Creator (Home or Publisher Edition), Mobipocket Reader for PC.
Convert RGO to PRC:
- Open rgo file using Repligo Reader for PC
- Click edit, select all, then copy
- Open MS Word then paste
- Edit the file depends on your desired layout
- Save the edited MS Word DOC file
- Open Mobipocket Creator and import the MS Word document
- Convert
You could also read Prepare DOC File Before PRC Conversion for additional tips. A simple warning from me, editing the DOC file will consume you time depends on the ebook length. Have a little more patience to have those precious ebook collection converted.
Convert Repligo (RGO) To Other Formats
Some of the new generation of bookworms prefer repligo formats than other mobile ebook readers in the market including me. Based on my observation, I believed that a bigger percentage of mobile eBook users prefer other formats. Luckily, they found sites and forums that offer free ebooks in repligo or rgo format. I guess, repligo users have wide collections of ebooks. Will the other ebook users allow the opportunity of having the “hard to find” ebook in the market scape?
The disadvantage of using repligo application in mobile phones is that it isn’t available to wide variety of phones. This is one of the reason why I haven’t change my smartphone. Going back, there’s NO software available in the market to convert repligo format to other formats.
The best thing to do is to download and install Repligo Viewer for Windows. Cerience doesn’t offer anymore the software to their download page but the link I have is still downloadable. Take note that it is version 2.1 and latest update is year 2004. Download the file and install to your computer. It is free and should work with Windows XP. It is advisable to have a backup copy to CD for future installation.
- Open the repligo file using Repligo viewer
- Select all
- Copy (as long as your eBook is text)
- Paste it to notepad
- Edit the file if necessary to tidy up the file
- Save it as txt format (you can save it also to other format like MS Word, RTF etc)
Optional: If the repligo file have image, save the image as regular image file. This is depends on your desired output ebook format like mobipocket, PDF etc.
