How do I created my own chapters for the iphone Stanza?

Sat, 07/19/2008 - 03:07 — AndreasvanHaren

Hello,
After opening my pdf file on the iphone Stanza, the whole book is one large file. Is it possible to create my own chapters so I can browse through them with the scrolling wheel in the program?

André van Haren

Stanza Support

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 03:04 — maryleen

Can anybody recommend a free

Can anybody recommend a free ebook site for the iphone? With Amazon taking over Stanza I am afraid that my favorite free ebook application for my iPhone is going to become a pay for play. Plus knowing Amazon they are going to move to DRM. So any real world suggestions out there? Thanks!

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 03:21 — itimpi

If you are in to Science

If you are in to Science Fiction, then I can recommend Baen Books. They have a lot of titles in their "Free Library", and they are also one of the best value publishing sites for paid-for electronic books as they provide them well below the cost of the paper editions. All their books are DRM free and provided in a wide range of formats.

Sun, 04/19/2009 - 08:19 — Keith M (not verified)

All one chapter - great!

I wish I could import my text files as all one chapter. That way, I'd be able to search the entire document, without opening the dozens of random chapters Stanza creates and searching each one at a time.

Does anyone know how to turn chapter creation off or to search an entire work for a text string?

Sun, 04/19/2009 - 09:06 — Anonymous (not verified)

You should download the

You should download the latest version of Stanza (1.8) which lets you search in an entire book instead of just one chapter.

Sat, 07/19/2008 - 22:08 — marc

As mentioned in the last

As mentioned in the last topic, our PDF importing support is somewhat limited, and while we try to use the PDF bookmarks to identify the location of chapters, this doesn't always work.

You can always try to fix the problem manually by exporting to a text file, inserting chapter headers manually (Stanza will try to auto-detect chapters by looking for lines like "CHAPTER 1", "CHAPTER 2", among other formats), and then re-loading it into Stanza. That might be a good solution if you are looking to break up the book into multiple chapters, which helps the speed of loading files in Stanza iPhone.

Sun, 07/20/2008 - 01:30 — AndreasvanHaren

I did write my book in

I did write my book in Atlantis on the pc and used chapter breaks, but it is apparently not recognized by Stanza. I can try to make them again on my mac in Word or Pages.

André

Sun, 07/20/2008 - 02:25 — conradgempf

Page- and Chapter-breaks in Macintosh text files

The Macintosh uses different page-break and paragraph-break conventions than DOS/Windows or UNIX. Opening the file in a text processor and saving it again will help a lot IF you have a text processor that can save the file with the non-Mac conventions and if you tell it to do so. Probably the best free one is TextWrangler. Download it here (www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/).

Here are the steps I'm currently going through in preparing text documents for transfer to Stanza:

1. AUTHOR AND TITLE
I open the file in TextWrangler. At the beginning of the file, I type in
Title: X
Author: Y
(substituting X and Y with the real title and name, of course) to let Stanza know these details.

2. CHAPTER BREAKS
I then check how the document signals its chapter divisions. Usually in Gutenberg, there are a couple of blank lines, the word 'CHAPTER' and the number then a blank line and then the chapter title. This won't cut it with Stanza. Fortunately, TextWrangler uses a powerful UNIX set of conventions for search and replace called GREP.

I open the Wrangler's Find/Replace dialogue, turn on GREP and Case Sensitive options, then choose my course of action:

- IF the book uses that pattern for chapter divisions,
I then type or paste this pattern into the Find box:
\r\rCHAPTER(.*)\r\r(.*)
and this into the Replace box:
\r\fCHAPTER\1\r\2

- BUT IF the book I have already does Chapter number on one line and the title on the next, or if there are no chapter titles, just CHAPTER and number, then I can drop most of the junk in those search patterns.
find: \r\rCHAPTER
replace with: \r\fCHAPTER
That will make Stanza chapter breaks in the appropriate places. The '\f' inserts the ASCII character for a page break just before the word 'CHAPTER'.

3. PARAGRAPH BREAKS
Then I choose the 'File" - 'Save As...' menu item. In the window that comes up, I hit the 'Options...' button, and choose 'DOS' from the 'Line Breaks:' pull-down menu and rename and save the file.

Viola: paragraphs and chapter breaks!

Mon, 08/11/2008 - 09:46 — JDNY1

Page- and Chapter-breaks in windows???

Is ther a way to do this in windows

Sun, 07/20/2008 - 03:55 — AndreasvanHaren

hi, thanks for the help. I

hi,
thanks for the help. I tried it but got this result in Stanza:

Author: AndrŽ van Haren
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{\fonttbl\f0\froman\fcharset77 TimesNewRomanPSMT;\f1\froman\fcharset77 TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;\f2\fmodern\fcharset77 CourierNewPS-ItalicMT;
\f3\fmodern\fcharset77 CourierNewPSMT;\f4\fswiss\fcharset77 Helvetica;\f5\fswiss\fcharset77 ArialMT;
}
{\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;\red0\green0\blue0;}
{\info
{\title Misscha}
{\subject Een kinderboek}
{\doccomm Copyright (c) 2005 by Andr\’8e van Haren}
{\author Andr\’8e van Haren}
{\*\company L.L. Sound Productions Inc.}
{\*\copyright }
{\keywords Novel fantasie, cursorLocation=120}}\margl1008\margr1008\margt1008\vieww15520\viewh16580\viewkind1\viewscale120
\deftab720
\pard\tx720\pardeftab720\fi432\sb20\qj\pardirnatural
\f0\fs22 \cf0 Andr\’8e van Haren\
Sk\’8cnegatan 17 D \

Wed, 07/30/2008 - 15:01 — rsande

RTF?

Looks like you're opening an RTF file. Try opening this file with TextEditor - it should look a lot better than what you posted above. Then, click the Format menu, and choose Make Plain Text. This will take away all text formatting (size, font, color, italics/bold) but make it much easier for Stanza to read.