TomeRaider - Revision history

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'''TomeRaider''' was one of the first formats to support large reference works (like Wikipedia) on handheld devices. It had readers for PC, PocketPC, Palm, Nokia, Epoc, and Sony Ericsson P800/P900.

Capabilities of the TomeRaider3 e-book reader vary considerably per platform: the Windows and Windows Mobile editions support full HTML and CSS. The Palm edition supports limited HTML (e.g., no tables, no fonts), and CSS support is missing. For Symbian there is only the older TomeRaider2 format, which does not render images or offer category search facilities. Despite these differences any TomeRaider e-book can be browsed on all supported platforms.

The first and second version (TR2) both used the .tr file extension while the third version used the .tr3 file extension. The .pdb file extension was used on Palm.

== Identification ==
* TR - 370000106D000010D2160010DCF4DDFCD1 at offset 0
* TR3 - 5452334454523343 (TR3DTR3C) at offset 60
* PDB - identified as ToRa files using the application TRPW

== References and format ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081217024356/http://www.tomeraider.com/ Old homepage]
* https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Tome_Raider
* https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/TR
* https://en.everybodywiki.com/TomeRaider
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats#TomeRaider
* https://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/TomeRaider.html
* [https://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/ProcedureTR3.html Convert Wikipedia to TR3] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160310030537/http://infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/TomeRaider/WikiToTome_4_2_c.zip WikiToTome_4_2_c.zip download])
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090711192707/http://www.yadabyte.com/TR3Tutorial/Authoring.htm Authoring TomeRaider files]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091007123839/http://www.yadabyte.com/TR3Tutorial/TR3_tag.htm TR3 Tag Reference]
* [https://github.com/digipres/digipres.github.io/blob/master/_sources/registries/trid/triddefs_xml/tr.trid.xml TrIDScan for TR/TR2]
* [https://github.com/digipres/digipres.github.io/blob/master/_sources/registries/trid/triddefs_xml/tr3.trid.xml TrIDScan for TR3]
* [https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61909 Possibility of making open source]

== Sample files ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080601234816/http://tomeraider.com:80/links/07E2D5EC5D4B49B491A4F6178D892E0C532594B1/TR_Conspiracy_Reader.tr3 TR3 Conspiracy Reader]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051210133424/http://download.wikimedia.org/tomeraider/current_tr3/TR3_WP_EO_(P)PC_TXT.zip TR3 Esperanto Wikipedia for PC/PPC]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051210122252/http://download.wikimedia.org/tomeraider/current_tr3/TR3_WP_EO_PALM_TXT.zip TR3 Esperanto Wikipedia for Palm]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060623171552/http://download.wikimedia.org/tomeraider/200312/WP_EO_(P)PC.zip TR2 Esperanto Wikipedia for PC/PPC]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060623171258/http://download.wikimedia.org/tomeraider/200312/WP_EO_EPOC.zip TR2 Esperanto Wikipedia for EPOC]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060623171313/http://download.wikimedia.org/tomeraider/200312/WP_EO_PALM.zip TR2 Esperanto Wikipedia for Palm]

== Software ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071024002145/http://www.tomeraider.com/appzips/Tomeraider3.zip TomeRaider 3.3.9 for Windows] - open TR3, create TR3, auto-convert TR2 to TR3 on open
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927141729/http://www.tomeraider.com:80/appzips/TomeRaider3_WIN_v3.1.19.zip TomeRaider 3.1.19 for Windows] - contains 'Export to TR2' functionality
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070307170728/http://www.tomeraider.com:80/appzips/TomeRaider3PPC_3_2_03.zip TomeReader 3.2.03 for PocketPC]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061231160733/http://www.tomeraider.com:80/appzips/TomeRaider3_Palm_V3.1.05.zip TomeReader 3.1.05 for Palm]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060221164827/http://www.proporta.com/F03/s/tomeraider_epoc.zip TomeReader 2 for Psion EPOC]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060221164801/http://www.proporta.com/F03/s/TomeRaiderp800.zip TomeReader 2 for Sony Ericsson P800/P900]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070807121243/http://www.proporta.com/F03/s/tr2.SIS TomeReader 2 for Nokia Communicator]
* [https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/idol/IDOL_23_3/KeyviewFilterSDK_23.3_Documentation/Guides/html/dotnet-programming/Content/kv_formats/_KV_FMT__AllDetected.htm OpenText IDOL KeyView] - convert from TomeRaider

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 == Identification ==
-* TR - 370000106D000010D2160010DCF4DDFCD1 at offset 0
+* TR - {{magic|370000106D000010D2160010DCF4DDFCD1}} at offset 0
-* TR3 - 5452334454523343 (TR3DTR3C) at offset 60
+* TR3 - {{magic|5452334454523343}} ({{magic|TR3DTR3C}}) at offset 60
 * PDB - identified as ToRa files using the application TRPW

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 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071024002145/http://www.tomeraider.com/appzips/Tomeraider3.zip TomeRaider 3.3.9 for Windows] - open TR3, create TR3, auto-convert TR2 to TR3 on open
 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927141729/http://www.tomeraider.com:80/appzips/TomeRaider3_WIN_v3.1.19.zip TomeRaider 3.1.19 for Windows] - contains 'Export to TR2' functionality
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070307170728/http://www.tomeraider.com:80/appzips/TomeRaider3PPC_3_2_03.zip TomeReader 3.2.03 for PocketPC]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070307170728/http://www.tomeraider.com:80/appzips/TomeRaider3PPC_3_2_03.zip TomeRaider 3.2.03 for PocketPC]
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061231160733/http://www.tomeraider.com:80/appzips/TomeRaider3_Palm_V3.1.05.zip TomeReader 3.1.05 for Palm]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061231160733/http://www.tomeraider.com:80/appzips/TomeRaider3_Palm_V3.1.05.zip TomeRaider 3.1.05 for Palm]
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060221164827/http://www.proporta.com/F03/s/tomeraider_epoc.zip TomeReader 2 for Psion EPOC]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060221164827/http://www.proporta.com/F03/s/tomeraider_epoc.zip TomeRaider 2 for Psion EPOC]
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060221164801/http://www.proporta.com/F03/s/TomeRaiderp800.zip TomeReader 2 for Sony Ericsson P800/P900]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060221164801/http://www.proporta.com/F03/s/TomeRaiderp800.zip TomeRaider 2 for Sony Ericsson P800/P900]
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070807121243/http://www.proporta.com/F03/s/tr2.SIS TomeReader 2 for Nokia Communicator]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070807121243/http://www.proporta.com/F03/s/tr2.SIS TomeRaider 2 for Nokia Communicator]
 * [https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/idol/IDOL_23_3/KeyviewFilterSDK_23.3_Documentation/Guides/html/dotnet-programming/Content/kv_formats/_KV_FMT__AllDetected.htm OpenText IDOL KeyView] - convert from TomeRaider