[NTLK] Manybooks.net is interesting

[SteveCraft]

I have many things that I'd like to do and tried to make myself a "cookbook"
for getting the books in. Target is an eMate with 4mb RAM and no additional
storage. Due to the number of pkgs I want(ed) to make, I thought I could do
something like this (using Windoze):

1. Scan images as jpg
2. Edit/crop images to a specified size
3. Convert all to grayscale with imagemagick
4. Paste all into a Word 2007 doc
5. Annotate with Times Roman 14 font (usually the kids book is one picture
with text underneath).
6. Copy-paste into Press
7. Make pkg
8. Load into eMate

While I am OK with (2) taking manual work, it seemed that I could never get
(3) correct and there was no way to know it would be garbage until I got to
(6) and sometimes (8).

And there are books I wanted to use on my 2100 - lots and lots of text,
maybe a few images sprinkled in there for showoff capability. But the images
would always take up the whole visible screen area, eg I could not get text
to flow around images (or even let them keep their intended size). I don't
want to use NTK or do any scripting, I just the minimal work to make stuff
load.

I never did Newtscape (which I bought over a year ago now) so maybe that is
the proper move....



-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Howe [mailto:matthowe at comcast.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 3:38 PM
To: newtontalk at newtontalk.net; steve at craftsathome.net
Subject: RE: [NTLK] Manybooks.net is interesting

I find that interesting. I have heard other people complain about how hard
it is to make Newton books and the large number of crashes they have while
trying to make ebooks. I never had those problems. As a matter of fact, that
is what I miss most now that my Newton is not used daily. How easily and
quickly I could throw some data into an ebook.

Matt (Ducky) Howe
Owner of a MP2000U and an Emate
SantaMatt at Gmail.com (Nokia N770)
matthowe at comcast.net (Desktop)
http://home.comcast.net/~mhowe41/
http://SantaMatt.blogspot.com

SteveCraft wrote:
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+1 for interested. Making books is not easy at all.
I have tried to make kiddie books for the eMate (lots of images, light on
text), and never came up with a good and fast reproducible error free method
for doing so.
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