D programming language specification ebook

[Andrew Wiley]

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Russel Winder <russel at russel.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 22:36 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> [ . . . ]
> > I understand, and I'll see about generating a pdf.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > However, although the e-readers can read pdf's, they do so very badly,
> because
> > pdf's are designed for 8*11.5 paper, and will not reflow the text for the
> > smaller screens.
>
> Well PDF isn't designed for 8x11.5 per se, the page size can be anything
> you want, but it is fixed.
>
> (I wonder when the USA, Canada and Mexico will drop their non-standard
> paper sizes and use ISO standard ones.  OK never, I know :-(
>
> > There's gotta be an e-reader for Linux. .mobi files are a standard as far
> as I
> > can tell.
>
> FBReader is there.  Thanks Jordi for pointing this out.


I've generally used Calibre as my e-reader on Linux (and Windows), and it
will most likely work as well. I'll be trying it in the near future.
It can also convert nearly any format to nearly any other format.
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