MobileRead Forums
Register Guidelines E-Books Today's Posts Search

Go Back   MobileRead Forums > E-Book Formats > PDF
Reload this Page soPdf - Better than Yet another PDF to LRF converter

Notices

Reply
Page 3 of 14 12 3 4567 Last »
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 12-09-2008, 08:31 AM   #31
marcusgennaroz
Junior Member
marcusgennaroz began at the beginning.
 
Posts: 4
Karma: 10
Join Date: Dec 2008
Device: Cybook
Hi! I am not able to run the .exe file. I downloaded the zip file and tried to open the .exe file. Are there any required files to be installed?
Thanks!
M.
marcusgennaroz is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-16-2008, 02:52 PM   #32
=X=
Wizard
=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
=X='s Avatar
 
Posts: 3,671
Karma: 12205348
Join Date: Mar 2008
Device: Galaxy S, Nook w/CM7
This thread should get moved to the PDF thread.


MobileRead Forums -> E-Book Formats -> PDF

Since this tool really just manipulates PDFs to PDFs

=X=
=X= is offline   Reply With Quote
Advert
Old 12-16-2008, 03:55 PM   #33
Alfy
Liseur de Bonne Aventure
Alfy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Alfy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Alfy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Alfy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Alfy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Alfy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Alfy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Alfy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Alfy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Alfy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Alfy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Alfy's Avatar
 
Posts: 374
Karma: 2176666
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Paris, France
Device: PRS T1
Hi!

Any chance to get the code compiled for Mac OS X? Visual Studio seems to be heavily tied to Windows...

Cheers,

Alfy.
Alfy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-03-2009, 07:53 PM   #34
theguru
Member
theguru doesn't littertheguru doesn't litter
 
Posts: 19
Karma: 139
Join Date: Nov 2008
Device: Sony PRS-505
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfy View Post
Hi!

Any chance to get the code compiled for Mac OS X? Visual Studio seems to be heavily tied to Windows...

Cheers,

Alfy.
I do not have Mac OS X but anyone interested can compile it since the source is avaiable. Visual Studio is not required to run the program only to compile it.
theguru is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-03-2009, 09:27 PM   #35
pilotbob
Grand Sorcerer
pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
pilotbob's Avatar
 
Posts: 19,832
Karma: 11844413
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Tampa, FL USA
Device: Kindle Touch
Quote:
Originally Posted by theguru View Post
I do not have Mac OS X but anyone interested can compile it since the source is avaiable. Visual Studio is not required to run the program only to compile it.
What language is it written in? There is NO visual studio for Mac... as I'm sure you know.

BOb
pilotbob is offline   Reply With Quote
Advert
Old 01-14-2009, 11:16 AM   #36
bill_syue
Junior Member
bill_syue began at the beginning.
 
Posts: 5
Karma: 10
Join Date: Dec 2008
Device: sony prs 505
I'm a beginner. Can someone help me on using the soPdf tool? I am using WinXP system and I put soPdf.exe and the sample pdf file "ebooktestin.pdf" under C:\. And then I opened the CMD window under the directory of C:\. I typed "soPdf.exe -i ebooktestin.pdf". I was told that "The system cannot execute the specified program".
bill_syue is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-14-2009, 02:21 PM   #37
theguru
Member
theguru doesn't littertheguru doesn't litter
 
Posts: 19
Karma: 139
Join Date: Nov 2008
Device: Sony PRS-505
Quote:
Originally Posted by bill_syue View Post
I'm a beginner. Can someone help me on using the soPdf tool? I am using WinXP system and I put soPdf.exe and the sample pdf file "ebooktestin.pdf" under C:\. And then I opened the CMD window under the directory of C:\. I typed "soPdf.exe -i ebooktestin.pdf". I was told that "The system cannot execute the specified program".
Seems like people do not read complete instruction. You have to download the runtime libraries from Microsoft. Do a search for Visual Studio 2008 runtime libraries.
theguru is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-14-2009, 02:21 PM   #38
theguru
Member
theguru doesn't littertheguru doesn't litter
 
Posts: 19
Karma: 139
Join Date: Nov 2008
Device: Sony PRS-505
Quote:
Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
What language is it written in? There is NO visual studio for Mac... as I'm sure you know.

BOb
Its written in C/C++
theguru is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-14-2009, 02:26 PM   #39
pilotbob
Grand Sorcerer
pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.pilotbob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
pilotbob's Avatar
 
Posts: 19,832
Karma: 11844413
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Tampa, FL USA
Device: Kindle Touch
Quote:
Originally Posted by theguru View Post
Its written in C/C++
so, can it be compiled with XCode tools, GNU or something?

Any idea?

BOb
pilotbob is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-14-2009, 03:01 PM   #40
=X=
Wizard
=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.=X= ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
=X='s Avatar
 
Posts: 3,671
Karma: 12205348
Join Date: Mar 2008
Device: Galaxy S, Nook w/CM7
Quote:
Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
so, can it be compiled with XCode tools, GNU or something?

Any idea?

BOb
Bob it should with a little work. A lot of the tools theGuru used are GNU*.
=X=
Last edited by =X=; 01-14-2009 at 03:02 PM. Reason: * I'm stating this from memory, when I looked few months back.
=X= is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-14-2009, 09:05 PM   #41
bill_syue
Junior Member
bill_syue began at the beginning.
 
Posts: 5
Karma: 10
Join Date: Dec 2008
Device: sony prs 505
Quote:
Originally Posted by theguru View Post
Seems like people do not read complete instruction. You have to download the runtime libraries from Microsoft. Do a search for Visual Studio 2008 runtime libraries.
Thanks a lot! Initially I thought I don't need to install VS 2008 runtime librabries since I have Visual Studio 2005 in my laptop. Just now I downloaded and installed a VS 2008 runtime library and now it works! thanks again!
bill_syue is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-15-2009, 01:38 AM   #42
bill_syue
Junior Member
bill_syue began at the beginning.
 
Posts: 5
Karma: 10
Join Date: Dec 2008
Device: sony prs 505
One more question:

Can someone explained a bit more about "-m" option? What does all these options mean? Is the "fit 2xWidth " option best suited for PRS-505? Thanks in advance!
bill_syue is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-17-2009, 06:05 AM   #43
Emit
Junior Member
Emit is on a distinguished road
 
Posts: 1
Karma: 54
Join Date: Jan 2009
Device: PRS505
linux port
First of all, I finally got a ereader (PRS-505) and I love it, except the screen is a lot smaller than I expected. I don't read novels (pft who has time for those! ) but textbooks and papers, so I really needed something to cut out the margins and basically maximize reading area. Thankfully soPdf does exactly that... but for windows

Attached is my port of soPdf for Linux.

I included a binary plus my sources for soPdf.c and processPdf.c and a brief readme.

the only dynamic dependencies are to common libs like libjpeg, zlib, freetype, etc so it should work out of the box on any modern distro (I tested on ubuntu 8.04..) I also compiled in the optional jbig2dec dependency.

it works for me, i've used it on multiple pdfs ~15-20MB each.
however, YMMV

thanks theguru
Attached Files
File Type: gz sopdf-0.1a.tar.gz (557.1 KB, 1795 views)
Emit is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-19-2009, 12:43 AM   #44
cszhy
Member
cszhy began at the beginning.
 
Posts: 21
Karma: 10
Join Date: Aug 2007
Device: sony reader
Hi when I try to convert the attached file, it seems doesn't work , the file I got can not be opened, connect reader shows
"operation failed due to an error"

I would be very appreciated if anyone can help

Thanks
Attached Files
File Type: pdf jddf.pdf (3.85 MB, 4466 views)
cszhy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-19-2009, 04:14 AM   #45
bill_syue
Junior Member
bill_syue began at the beginning.
 
Posts: 5
Karma: 10
Join Date: Dec 2008
Device: sony prs 505
Quote:
Originally Posted by cszhy View Post
Hi when I try to convert the attached file, it seems doesn't work , the file I got can not be opened, connect reader shows
"operation failed due to an error"

I would be very appreciated if anyone can help

Thanks
No problem from my side. I attached the converted file. FYI
Attached Files
File Type: pdf jddf.pdfout.pdf (3.86 MB, 2185 views)
bill_syue is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply
Page 3 of 14 12 3 4567 Last »

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Yet another PDF to LRF converter cacapee LRF 583 11-28-2011 07:50 AM
comiclrf - Comics(CBZ) to LRF converter FangornUK LRF 274 06-16-2010 03:24 PM
Quick/easy LIT to LRF converter? OUTATIME Sony Reader Dev Corner 10 02-29-2008 10:44 AM
Anyone else want chm to lrf converter? buster Sony Reader 10 02-09-2008 06:07 PM
PRS-500 Linux based HTML to LRF converter? Thiana Sony Reader Dev Corner 3 04-08-2007 03:34 AM


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 05:37 PM.

Contact Us - FAQ - Guidelines - Privacy - Top

MobileRead.com is a privately owned, operated and funded community.