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Create reflowable content for the Sony Reader with deskUNPDF

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 UPDATE:  deskUNPDF 2 Professional for Windows and deskUNPDF for Mac are out of beta and have been released with the PDF to LRF capability and more.  Please visit Docudesk.com for more information and a trial download.

The deskUNPDF LRF Renderer Technology Preview allows Sony Reader users on Windows or Mac OS X to create reflowable eBook content printer output or existing PDFs. This is a major breakthrough because the native support for PDF content on the reader makes it incredibly hard to read the text of a normal letter-sized PDF page. The deskUNPDF LRF Renderer can produce BBeB Book content with structured text that is easily resizable, for easy of viewing on the Reader.

Features:

  • groups all text into a single flow
  • images (with grayscale dithering support)
  • basic font and style rendering
  • three rendering modes:
    • block - renders more font and size detail at the expense of adding more paragraph
    • inline - text is grouped together into larger paragraphs
    • freeflow - as much text as possible is grouped into each paragraph


Limitations:

  • documents with columns or other fancy layout are rendered in a single column
  • bold font faces currently render as italics due to current limitations in knowledge of the Reader format.
  • vector art is disabled
  • hyperlinks/table of contents not implemented


We hope you enjoy creating this new convenience of creating content for your Reader as much as we do!

 UPDATE:  deskUNPDF 2 Professional for Windows and deskUNPDF for Mac are out of beta and have been released with the PDF to LRF capability and more.  Please visit Docudesk.com for more information and a trial download.

Posted on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 at 01:32PM by Registered CommenterJ.D. Northrup in | Comments1 Comment | References5 References

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Reader Comments (1)

multilanguage support

I wonder if you can provide the chinese and japanese language support in the next version

thanks very much

June 21, 2007 | Unregistered Commenternidecta

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