[NTLK] Manybooks.net is interesting

[Matt Howe]

Well here is how I would approach it.
1. Scan however you can
2. edit and crop to a specific size. always keep in mind the resolution of
your target machine.
3. Convert to greyscale and set to 4 bit for os 2.1 machines. I use
Paintshop Pro 6.0 as I like their Grayscale and bit depth functions. And
then save as a .bmp
4. Only place text in Word and save as an rtf file.
5. Import rtf into Press and clean up as needed.
6. import graphics one at a time. They are always added to the end. Cut from
end of Press and paste into Press where you want them. Save frequently and
alternate between 2 save files, just in case.
7. Build package, Be sure your destination type is set in the preferences so
you end up with a book formatted to the right size, orientation and
grayscale depth.
8. Load on to E-Mate

This has worked for me countless times. I have made trip tickets, tour books
and agendas for trips. I made a First Aid book with graphics. Various
websites cut out and packages for use in the field. And only occasionally
will I get a graphic that doesn't grayscale well.

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

SteveCraft wrote:
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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....
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