Re: [NTLK] Newton Book Size

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Wed Aug 11 2004 - 06:05:54 PDT


Dan wrote:
> Oh I also forgot to mention you can create books with Paperback that
> will render on-the-fly so that the font, size, style you can change and
> it will always use the entire screen. The down sides are, no anotations
> or book marks (it won't even hold your spot after a reset which is VERY
> anoying to go hunting again since it does not use page numbers) and it
> sometimes can get slow fliping pages depending on the Newton and
> settings used. That is why I don't use it myself. It is however fast
> to create books with and as I said it will render the screen fully at
> all times. So you might want to give it a try.

You can even create Paperback format books online, no need to download the
actual software:

http://tools.unna.org/paperback/

I noticed the other day though that it might croak and truncate some longer
text files... not sure if this was the DCL code or my code causing it.

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