Software for text transfer to a DVD

tim west · 11 Sep 2008

Bit of a strange request but does anyone know of a way to transfer a lot of text to a dvd so that it can be viewed on a domestic DVD player? The recipient doesn't have access to a PC.

There is too much text to print out it would cost a fortune so i thought there may be some viewing software that could be burnt along with the text thats compatible with the dvd standard?

I suppose i could save each page as a graphic but that would take ages, what im looking for is a dvd player compatible E-book viewing program, does one exist?

Or maybe someone has another way around the problem?

Softus · 13 Sep 2008

I'm not pretending to know much about this - just chewing the cud...

AFAIK a DVD player doesn't have any capability to run DVD-based software, because it can merely decode MPEG-2 data on distribution media.

I have a hunch that there might be a more elegant solution, but in the absence of one you could create a movie to display the text. Clearly you'd the likes of Pinnacle Studio, or Adobe Premiere, unless there's a simpler and free package out there.

Or maybe you could send this person a letter?

dave.m · 14 Sep 2008

Tim,
If you have Office with Powerpoint

Use PDF Creator to convert your documents to PDF

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Then import the PDF to PowerPoint :

http://digital-vector-maps.com/tutorial-import-pdf-into-powerpoint.aspx

Powerpoint displays can be burned to DVDs

Checkout these links:
first u have to download pdf to ppt converter

http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&cli...

then you have to convert this ppt to video

http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&cli...

then burn it in DVD and run in DVD player

dave

tim west · 14 Sep 2008

That sounds like a great idea thanks very much guys

tim west · 14 Sep 2008

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HectorTheSpecta · 23 Sep 2008

Nero DVD Burner allows the creation of a Slideshow. You could render all of your text pages into images (jpeg or whatever) then create a DVD slide show.

Hope it helps.

tim west · 23 Sep 2008

kkp0897 said:
Nero DVD Burner allows the creation of a Slideshow. You could render all of your text pages into images (jpeg or whatever) then create a DVD slide show.

Hope it helps.

Thanks for the response, that was what i initially thought i'd have to do, a long laborious task though as there are many many pages of text, therefore i was hoping that i could just burn the text file along with a dvd standard viewing program like an e-book viewer you can get for the PC onto the DVD

HectorTheSpecta · 23 Sep 2008

what about an auto scanner? One with a feeder so that it scans images in from a feed then automatically creates the scanned file as a image, or something of that nature.

mattylad · 23 Sep 2008

get an old laptop off of Freecycle, even a 360 processor one will enable you to read text files.

tim west · 23 Sep 2008

The recipient is elderly and just about can control a DVD player let alone a computer so thats not an option im afraid but thanks anyway.
I'll probably end up taking the file to a printers and pay a kings ransom.

Software for text transfer to a DVD

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