How to build picture book with NTK & BookMaker

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If you do not have Newton Press, you can built Newton Book data with NTK & BookMaker. And those are free of charge. But BookMaker supports only Mono color picture data only(#1). So if you want gray scale data, you must buy Newton Press 1.1.

(#1)Macintosh BookMaker supports 'PICT' only, and Windows one supports mono color 'BMP'.

You must get the following softwares.

• Newton Toolkit and Newton BookMaker for Mac and Windows

  (You can download this from Newton Inc. web server.)

• Word Processer Software that Newton BookMaker supports format.
  • MS Word file format
  • MacWord file format
  • RTF format
  • Word Perfect file format and etc.

• Execute your word processer software. And type the Newton BookMaker commands. If you want to know more detail, please read 'Newton BookMaker User's Guilde' documents. (Sample is MS-Word 5.1a)

• If you want to use picture data only, you must know only 3 commands
  • .title titlename
    • Must required
    • Newton Book Title
    • If you are 'DropPicture' user, you must type in 'DropPict' in titlename.
  • .isbn code
    • Must required
    • Add ISBN Code, unique identiffer consisting of 14 aplhanumeric characters or fewer.
  • .picture data
    • Add and configure picture data.

• Save source document.

• Exectute BookMaker and select source document file.

• Compile source document file, after that, compiler will output NTK source (picure.doc.f)

• Build NTK project and compile NTK source.

If you can not build your Book, please check Newton Book Data source released from Newton Inc. web server.

• Sample Source code (Mac only) for writing this page
• Sample Source code 2 with NTK&ResEdit (without BookMaker&Word Processer Software) (Mac only)

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