Formatting a Document for an e-Reader

[Jorpho]

I have an RTF document that I want to view on my Sony e-Reader, and it's proving to be an exercise in anguish. I've tried modifying it in Softmaker Office and exporting it back to an RTF again, but usually the font size is far larger than it is comfortable to read.

I've tried converting it using Pandoc and Calibre, with very little success. In particular, any tinkering with the format tends to make the document lose all the italics, which is kind of the point to having it in RTF format to begin with. Can someone suggest a good way of converting the document appropriately?

[Jplus]

Print it to PDF?

[Jorpho]

Not a bad idea, but last time I tried that, it appeared that getting the margins and paper size just right was going to be very tricky. Unless there's some easy way to sort that out as well?

Using Softmaker Office's Export to PDF functionality (as opposed to using a PDF printer) results in a document with no text (except for the occasional punctuation) when displayed on the reader. Something to do with font embedding, I guess.

[Jplus]

Aren't the margins and paper size handled by your RTF editor? What RTF editor are you using, anyway? Are you having paper/margin issues because your editor dynamically wraps your text to the window width without paging it?

Perhaps I'm spoiled because I'm on a mac, but in my experience printing to PDF always "just works". I'm willing to print your RTF to PDF if that saves you a lot of trouble.

[Jorpho]

Like I said, I'm using Softmaker Office. Actually, I've gotten some largely satisfactory results by re-opening the RTF in WordPad instead and saving it there. I was just hoping there was a more elegant way of doing things.

[Jplus]

Sorry, I didn't realize Softmaker Office was your editor (dumb, I guess). Simply never heard about it. Good to hear that you got it to work though!

[maydayp]

I use a file converter to alter any books that need it. they also have a forum and are good at helping people, it's called calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/), it is compatible for sony ereaders.