On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:36:15PM +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: > hi > anyone know how i can convert a pdf file to a prc file in buntu or online?
What do you actually mean by prc file? Some quick googling found three options: corel presentation file, palm resource control (usually an executable, sometimes used for ebooks) and mobipocket ebook file. Any of those is a possibility for what you want I suppose, with the mobipocket ebook being the most probable. I found a couple of programs that would read mobipocket ebooks on Linux but nothing that'll write them, http://www.angelfire.com/ego2/idleloop/mbp_reader.html has some details on the format that might be enough to get a quick script together to wrap some text in the right format for the reader, the more of the formatting you want to keep the more work that'll be. Mobipocket do offer free as in beer creation tools for windows. Is this for getting pdfs onto your phone? If so I had an idea about that: there are tools to convert pdfs to HTML (pdftohtml) or plain text (pdftotext) and some other formats (I use pdftoppm every so often to pull diagrams out of lecture notes) and GIMP can read pdfs and save them in any image format you like. Images are a bit of a pain on a small screen as you'll probably end up scrolling around a lot as the text wont reflow to fit (though you have the same problem with the original pdfs), but dumping the text out to plain text or HTML looses a lot of the formatting. Which is best probably depends on the files you're working with. Hopefully some of that will help, Robert ________________________________________________________ Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ormiret.com People who think they know what they are doing are especially annoying to those of us who do. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/