Please Help

[javcs]

Hi!

I´m getting some txt books from the internet, but i´ve some problems.

They are very long, so i cannot open them as *.txt
so i have to open them with Microsoft Word 2000. I use dropbook to convert them into palm ebooks i follow the instructions of how i have to change the format, but, it doesn´t work!!!!

PLease any one can help me?

THX
JAVI

[javcs]

PLEASE DR MUD, HELP ME!!!!!!!!

[djmangen]

I don't know if these are the most efficient solutions, but they should work. You could:

1. Use Word on the PC to convert the files to PDFs, and then move to the Palm and read with Acrobat Reader for the Palm.

2. Purchase Wordsmith (http://www.bluenomad.com) or DocsToGo, and move to the Palm that way.

Personally, I'd probably use option 2, even though I have both. Why? Because I could edit, or insert notes, etc., as desired.

[javcs]

Hi!

It´s a good idea, but i´m looking for making ebooks not word files.

If for example, Star Wars (the book) will be in txt file, i´d have no problem, but it is in word document. I go to peanutpress.com and they give you instrucyions of how to do it. I follow them to convert doc files to PML language or PDB using macros at microsoft word, but it doesn´t work.


Any other help?

THX

JAVI

[TheSpies]

so why not open it in word and save it as *.txt then convert the text file?

[djmangen]

Well, I am not terribly familiar with Dropbook. It sounds straight forward, but since I haven't used it.....

What sort of errors are you getting? Is it producing a document that doesn't appear as you would like? Are you having trouble understanding the formatting codes, or what?

Also, on a different note, I would consider Acrobat to be an ebook, but that is only my opinion.

[DrMud]

I like djmangen need a bit more info. Using DropBook is a bit of a lenghty process involving two major conversion. The first from MS word doc file to the Palm Markup Language is accomplished by a Macro in Word. I would suspect that the problem is there. Often in Word when you have selected the Macro, the macro relenquishes its control to the main formatting .DAT file.
But give us a few more clues and we will continue to offer the idea of Adobe; we may even find the problem.
Doc

[javcs]

Hi all! Firstly i want to thank you all for your ideas.

I tried to save it at text and, i haven´t tried it yet, but maybe it´ll work right!

I´ve seen some web pages of palm users that build their own ebooks and they´re beautiful, I mean, at the beginning you can see a picture with the title and it´s really a very good idea because with that, you can personalize, can´t you?

Any one knows how to insert pictures in a txt file to appear in the same ebook, file with dropbook?

THX

JAVI