I also have had so much trouble making newton books. If someone knows
how to create a newton book on the binary level, please tell me. I
would love to create some sort of java conversion utility to help us all.
On Thursday, August 23, 2001, at 01:12 PM, THX 1138 wrote:
> NewtonPress files corrupt easily, in my experience. If it's a big
> project,
> sort it out in RTF form before dragging it into the unholiness that is
> NewtonPress. You will save yourself heartaches this way. Trust me.
>
> I had a huge project die halfway thru without a backup file, and my
> Newton
> Press sources went south. Not a pretty nor elegant failure, I had to
> totally start over. Now I take care of major editing (line breaks, page
> breaks, spelling, composition, fonts, etc) in WordPerfect, save it as
> RTF,
> import and work out minor issues (topics, more fonts, etc). Works fine
> on
> both Windows and Mac for me.
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