Guys does anybody knows how to convert PDF of language other than English to EPUB?
It seems when we use software like callibre the font of the book becomes jumbled up and unreadable.
If anybody knows the solution please post ASAP.
translate pdf using google translator or similar tool and then convert to epub.
Aspire said:
translate pdf using google translator or similar tool and then convert to epub.
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Thanks for rply, but that is not what i meant. I have a pdf file in Hindi and I want to convert into epub without changing language. That is HINDI.pdf-Hindi.epub.
EPUB is designed for reflowable content, meaning that the text display can be optimized for the particular display device used by the reader of the EPUB-formatted book, although EPUB now also supports fixed-layout content. The format is meant to function as a single format that publishers and conversion houses can use in-house, as well as for distribution and sale. It supersedes the Open eBook standard.
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I don't think Hindi can be reflowed according to the screen sizes, thus eliminating the possibility of epub creation.
It's interesting... I'll look it up.
is the pdf you're trying to convert searchable?
Try this
1. Convert the file to epub in Calibre (this will only work if the file actually uses Hindi text and not images/glyphs)
2. Get a Hindi font - An open source/freely licensed one if you plan to redistribute the document.
3. Use Sigil to embed the Hindi font into the file - you'll get more help for this part on the Sigil or epub authoring sub-forum.
sry for late rply, but yes the book is searchable. Google for this "Harry Potter aur Paras Pathar".
Just read philosopher's stone?
OR
Attach / PM me the pdf. I'll give it a try
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Can you read a chinese epub in your Malina ebook reader ?
The version I try was HTC Reader v1.0 (Build 2011.2511)
The part display correctly:
---The title of the book (on top of the screen)
---The table of content
The part does not display chinese
---The body of the chapter. (it only display the character ? instead of chinese)
I have test this epub in "Freda", Freda can display all chinese word correctly.
BTW: any good PDF to epub convert ?
really...
no one test ?
It works perfect on mine.
I also facing this problem...any solution?
For HTC eBook Reader, by default the program uses windows mobile's system fonts to display all character. In another way, if your epub books embed the special fonts (by using css style and .opf extension), the reader then will display all characters correctly.
I will upload a sample epub book with emded fonts later.
tieuphi said:
For HTC eBook Reader, by default the program uses windows mobile's system fonts to display all character. In another way, if your epub books embed the special fonts (by using css style and .opf extension), the reader then will display all characters correctly.
I will upload a sample epub book with emded fonts later.
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Thanks for reply. Can you pm me where can download the epub that can display correctly chinese?
Appreciate if you can provide me the download link.
The epub file can be opened as zip. You can extract its content, then you will have some files. Now you will do some steps:
1. open "stylesheet.css"
add below code at the end of file:
@font-face {
font-style: italic;
font-family: 'Liberation', serif, sans-serif;
font-weight: normal;
src: url(FreeSerifItalic.ttf);
}
@font-face {
font-style: normal;
font-family: 'Liberation', serif, sans-serif;
font-weight: normal;
src: url(FreeSerif.ttf);
}
@font-face {
font-style: italic;
font-family: 'Liberation', serif, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
src: url(FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf);
}
@font-face {
font-style: normal;
font-family: 'Liberation', serif, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
src: url(FreeSerifBold.ttf);
}
2. Open the "content.opf" (can use notepad or something like that, for me, I use editplus), add code:
<item href="FreeSerif.ttf" media-type="application/octet-stream" id="id1"/>
<item href="FreeSerifItalic.ttf" media-type="application/octet-stream" id="id2"/>
<item href="FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf" media-type="application/octet-stream" id="id3"/>
<item href="FreeSerifBold.ttf" media-type="application/octet-stream" id="id4"/>
3. Copy 4 fonts to the root of epub (same folder as contect.opf and Stylesheet.css)
Here, I use 4 fonts for displaying Vietnamese, include: FreeSerif.ttf, FreeSerifItalic.ttf, FreSerifBoldItalic.ttf, FreeSerifBol.ttf, so if you want to display another language like Chinese, use can replace 4 fonts above with others.
I attach an epub that I modified for displaying Vietnamese correctly. You can open my epub with Winzip and view 2 files: Stylesheet.css and contect.opf to see that.
This way will make the epub file larger (cause of including more fonts embed), but I have not found another way to display Vietnamese or Chinese on HTC Reader.
My English may be not good . I will upload the guide video later.
p/s: this is something I read from a forum but I can't remember the website. Hope someone will find other ways to display Unicode on HTC Reader
Here is my epub with fonts embed Download ample epub
Hi
Can this reader or Freda display chinese book in the traditional verticle right to left scrolling manner?
Anyone know what free reader out there do so?
in this case maybe you need to change your region setting to chinese simple (in the Configuration/System/Region) to diaplay asian characters.
the same problem comes with music player of HTC sense. if your region setting isn't chinese simple, the player can't display MP3's tag (ID3v1) which written by chinese simple, all those characters will be replaced by some symbo.
the cause maybe is HTC sense use system region setting to interpret text which is coded by ASCII (that's why just music player and reader, they are components of HTC sense), so if your region setting is US but you have some asian characters which coded in ASCII need to display in HTC sense, you might meet some problems.
Sian said:
Hi
Can this reader or Freda display chinese book in the traditional verticle right to left scrolling manner?
Anyone know what free reader out there do so?
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Freda cannot do this - it will display Chinese text in the same way it does Latin text (i.e. starting with the first line at the top of the page with each line of text running left-to-right). Implementing traditional Chinese layout would be quite complex (but if anyone wants to do it, they are free to do so - the code is Open Source (GPL2), and there's a download link in the manual).
Does anyone know of an app that will allow me to view tif files?
My efaxes come over via tif format and while I can read all my pdf and doc files that I get emailed for work, I still cant view my efaxes. I have done a search but it appears that all the image viewing programs support: bmp, jpg, gif, png but that is about it.
TIA
jakejm79 said:
Does anyone know of an app that will allow me to view tif files?
My efaxes come over via tif format and while I can read all my pdf and doc files that I get emailed for work, I still cant view my efaxes. I have done a search but it appears that all the image viewing programs support: bmp, jpg, gif, png but that is about it.
TIA
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read somewhere beamreader from the market can read tifs
I read that too, but it appears that that feature was in a pre release version, current version (or at least the free trial, and I'm not about to drop $4 till I know for sure) only seems to support pdf files, if I browse to folder with a tif in there it doesn't show it, and when clicking on a tif file in a file explorer there is no option to open it with beamreader. I head that the 3D gallery and astro image viewer work but they only allow viewing of the 1st page, but in my tests it would just show a black screen, either way not very useful.
From what I've read, as I am in the same boat, there is no native / built-in ability at the android system level to interpret / display .tif format files.
I actually wrote a filter in gmail that forwards my faxes to my home email server, where, upon receipt, a .procmail script launches, uses imagemagick to convert the .tif to .jpg, and then sends the attachment back to myself, just so I can view the fax from my phone.
I had thought about doing the same thing, so I would probably just use a pdf printer to convert it, since I believe a single pdf file would be better able to handle multiple pages rather than having multiple jpg files.
Actually in a pinch I did discover this: http://www.pdfonline.com/convert-pdf/
Coupled with Opera Mini takes about 2 mins to get a pdf of the file emailed to my phone.
jakejm79 said:
I had thought about doing the same thing, so I would probably just use a pdf printer to convert it, since I believe a single pdf file would be better able to handle multiple pages rather than having multiple jpg files.
Actually in a pinch I did discover this: http://www.pdfonline.com/convert-pdf/
Coupled with Opera Mini takes about 2 mins to get a pdf of the file emailed to my phone.
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That's the beauty of ImageMagick, between that and ffmpeg, there's not much you can't convert.
My needs were slightly different, but I'd be remiss if I didn't reply and say that with the simple addition of 'GhostScript' installed on the same machine, ImageMagick will auto-convert a multi-page tiff to a multi-page PDF, no questions asked.
resco photo manager and pocket xnviewer can read tif.
And the Resco photo manager works so smooth,but it can not bookmark a tag layer,so if you next time read the tif file ,it begins from tag 1. And does not have a go to function. If some one can solve these problem I'd rather chose to spend some time converting pdf files to tif files.
Sorry,I did not notice the question is about android phone.But some one geek can help me?
Recently I found a good office software in Android Market, Kingsoft Office.
The software has a good performance on editing documents, filtering data and playing ppt, etc.
The most important is that it is Free, so I have a try and now really like it. Share with everyone.
You can download it in Android Market.
The description about Kingsoft Office:
FREE to view DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, PDF files, create DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX.
Kingsoft Office is known as the most user-friendly mobile Office: whether in a small cell phone screen or on a large screen on the Tablet, Kingsoft Office has a superior performance!
And it is also the only mobile Office with full-features FREE: all features listed below are free to use!
Core Features:
- View & Edit DOC, DOCX, TXT files;
- View & Edit XLS, XLSX files;
- View & Edit PPT, PPTX files;
- View PDF files;
- User-friendly & nice UI;
- Built-in file manager that can automatically organize your office document;
- Tight integration with the mail application: you can open the attachment, and can directly send after modification;
- Support the cloud storage services with WebDAV protocol;
- And we will continuously update the App, adding new features!
Language is in Chinese, any idea to change it to eng?
btw the rendering is very good so far.
gdsbalaji said:
Language is in Chinese, any idea to change it to eng?
btw the rendering is very good so far.
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Where did you download it ? I am in the UK and just got it from the market and it is in english.
gdsbalaji said:
Language is in Chinese, any idea to change it to eng?
btw the rendering is very good so far.
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Kingsoft Office (English)
As much as I appreciate this, I find no way of doing some things in excel.
Can't see a way to format columns or rows,
formulas I presume has to be typed entirely.
I see one toolbar, but find no way to access anything else
Wow... thanks for the info.. this is what i need...
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thanks for the links guys...I hv hd2....market says its incompatible with my device....can any1 share an apk ?
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Attached!
But you can also pick up the latest version from their website as and when they are released -> http://www.kingsoftstore.com/kingsoft-office-android.html
Hello everyone
i'm writing my final exam in bachelor of science / computer science.
I've got a problem with converting a pdf on an android device. Recently I've added the JAR's from iText and thought, that would be helpful.... :\
My problem is the converting of a pdf to an image-file like jpeg. If this does not worl, i want to display the pdf in my own app, without an intent to ThinkOffice or AdobeReader.
The pdf is saved in /sdcard/some_folders/test.pdf. Now i want create the image in this folder to.
Can anyone help me?
Sorry, if this is the wrong thread, but XDA dont let me post in another one
Hi all,
GobyDict is my hobby project, it is an universal dictionary which supports WordNet and StarDict format (ifo,idx,dz files). It is not limited to any language and dictionary. You can find out your Stardict dictionary and unzip it to dictdata folder, GobyDict can handle it nicely.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goby.dict.free
Why GobyDict:
- Offline dictionary
- Universal dictionary
- Support WordNet format
- Support StarDict format
- Support multi-dictionaries without any limit
- Support self drop in StarDict to dictdata folder
- Embedded download center
- Enable/Disable dictionaries with Management Center
- Favor and History view
Hope you like my app and please feel free to let me know your comment and suggestion.
I have created a translation project under Crowdin, if you want to help on translate GobyDict to your language, please visit : http://crowdin.net/project/gobydict or email to[email protected]. Thanks for your support.
Can you skip the downloading dict necessity for the first time loading the dict? So can manually put the dict files without having to access internet (sometimes don't have internet and it's big).
This looks interesting, I'll have to check it out tomorrow... Thanks much!
of course, will modify it later. Thanks for your suggestion.
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Thanks.
Also please have a look, i found some dictionary is not recognized at all after indexing (no result of that dict appear).
Maybe it language dependent, i don't know too. (Chinese is ok).
Here is the link to those dicts you can test.
1. Khmer
It's English - Khmer
https://khmeriphone.googlecode.com/files/EnglishKhmerDico.zip
2. Japanese
Jap - En - Jap (source from multidict, or rapidict in PlayStore)
http://www.mediafire.com/download/a29tyiv3zarnv5h/JEJ.zip
GobyLeung said:
Hi all,
GobyDict is my hobby project, it is an universal dictionary which supports WordNet and StarDict format (ifo,idx,dz files). It is not limited to any language and dictionary. You can find out your Stardict dictionary and unzip it to dictdata folder, GobyDict can handle it nicely.
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Hi Goby! And thanks for your app!
I'm facing a small issue with your app.
With others dictionaries, when I click word for definition it says "Word not found in active dictionary".
I'm using KitKat in Nexus 4. I already searched google, but found nothing. How could I solve it?
Thanks!