Rasterfarian for sony reader copyright problems? Download the patched rasterfarian version here.

peter 9 September 2007 Gadgets 1,510 views 20 Comments Print This Post Print This Post

The history: RasterFarian got removed from mobileread because it was using a licensed tool, pdcat.exe from pdf-tools.com. There was a whole ruckus about it.

Ironicly, that tool was doing nothing more than “copying” (cat) the original PDF to another location, so it was not even needed…

Alex_D once gave me the green light to release a patched/debugged version of RasterFarian, so I’ve taken my freedom to just patching it to NOT use the licensed tool anymore.

I’ve removed the pdcat.exe from the package, and instead I’m merely using windows builtin “copy”-command to do the things.

Download rasterfarian (patched)

PS. as far as I know, only the pdcat-too was licensed, the rest are opensource or free tools.

PS2. This patched version is released “as is”. I haven’t tested it extensively, but on a few PDF-files i’ve made, it seems to work without probs. If you found bugs, report here and I’ll see what I can do, but can’t promise anything. I’m not the original author, and I don’t like shellprogramming, so I rather dislike giving support.

PS3. A “thank you”-comment is appreciated.

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20 Comments »

  1. Sweet thanks sooo much I have been quite lost without my rasterfarian!!

    Comment by Nick — September 9, 2007 @ 6:16 pm

  2. Thanks for this! Now I can use this in combo with your manga conversion technique.
    Looking forward to trying it out on my new reader. Thanks again.

    Comment by AF — September 11, 2007 @ 6:49 pm

  3. Therer are a lot of people who found out about this tool … to late. Thanks for the patched version and i’ll be pointing more people over here. Catcher in the Rye huh :) ?!

    Comment by Wolfgang — September 17, 2007 @ 6:44 am

  4. Thanks for the update & continued efforts.

    Comment by drb — September 19, 2007 @ 9:48 pm

  5. Thank you. I look forward to reading my Calculus text book.

    Well, sort of…

    But thanks for the tool anyway!!! :)

    Comment by Ayrkain — October 24, 2007 @ 5:01 am

  6. Thank you so mucH!

    Comment by user — January 8, 2008 @ 7:27 am

  7. hi
    could someone explain how i install the program…i have no idea what “patched” means..i downloaded it…have it in a folder…but what do i do next????????????????
    many thanks….in advance!!!!

    Comment by stepanok — January 17, 2008 @ 9:23 pm

  8. Thanks a lot!!! Hope finally will be ble to use my reader for TRUE work!!

    Comment by Andres Garcia — January 25, 2008 @ 2:45 pm

  9. Once you’ve unpacked the files to a folder on your computer click on pdfrasterfarian.cmd to start the program. A command box as well as an open file box should pop up. Click the pdf flie you want to convert then where you want to save it. Then follow the questions asked in the command window. At the end it will produce an .lrf file to the location you chose to save it.

    Comment by Cam J — February 6, 2008 @ 7:15 pm

  10. Thank you so much!

    Comment by xiaoqiangwj — March 29, 2008 @ 2:30 am

  11. Thanks!!!!! good work!

    Comment by gczobel — September 9, 2008 @ 6:12 am

  12. I never get a dialog box to open when i click on the pdfrasterfarian.cmd

    Comment by hzgone — September 26, 2008 @ 10:35 pm

  13. Looks like this is missing files for example asksavepath.exe is missing

    Comment by hzgone — September 26, 2008 @ 10:49 pm

  14. I take that back i had a 2.5.2 version that is missing a bunch of stuff.

    Comment by hzgone — September 26, 2008 @ 10:50 pm

  15. Still don’t get the dialog box.

    Comment by hzgone — September 26, 2008 @ 10:57 pm

  16. excellent work!

    Comment by dude — December 18, 2008 @ 2:56 am

  17. Thanks man, KUTGW.

    Comment by Rowdy — December 25, 2008 @ 2:19 pm

  18. [...] links to a conversion guide to convert scans to a format optimal for reading, and Manga2Ebook, and RasterFarian, programs used in the conversion [...]

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  19. This is a great program EXCEPT that on my SONY PRS-600 I can’t take notes (highlight) and it converts to lrf file. Shouldn’t it be a .epub file?

    Comment by Edwin — January 3, 2010 @ 3:54 am

  20. thank so much! I can finally do what I’d like to with RasterFarian.

    Comment by Lisa Newton — January 19, 2010 @ 1:37 am

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