Pamela Wilson provides some free seminars on making ebooks, <http://www.bigbrandsystem.com/free-brown-bag-webinars/#3>.
Apache OpenOffice Writer is featured as the preferred authoring too. The bundled materials that are for sale include ODT templates. There is also guidance and explanation of what it takes to format for EPUB and have good results. EPUB formats are restricted and attempting to make a heavily styled document is not a good idea. The proposed approach works for submissions of Kindle books also. The associated materials are not inexpensive, in the $100-$200 US range. They are intended for folks who are serious about publishing or who want to provide authoring services to others. After the initial expense, there is no reuse limitation and there are no royalty obligations, however. Calibre for creating eReader-ready format. There is an assumption that folks are using Windows or Macintosh OSX. There's an On-Demand Webinar for eBook Evolution that is recommended for folks who are not professional authors/writers as well. I presume that it features the eBook Evolution package that is offered as a product. I haven't explored this: <http://www.bigbrandsystem.com/ultimate-ebook-kickstart/>. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Dan Lewis [mailto:elderdanle...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 03:53 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: EPUB from OpenOffice On 05/10/2013 04:27 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2013 02:31:33 -0500 > Tamblyne <tambl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 4/2/2013 4:01 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: >>> On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:49:13 -0400 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> *I see several extensions in the repository that offer EPub digital >>>> book conversion from OpenOffice: >>>> >>>> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/epubGenerator* >>>> * http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/Writer2ePub* >>>> * http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/odftoepub* >>>> >>>> Does anyone have experience with these, and a recommendation? Or >>>> is there some other tool that you would suggest for publishing to >>>> EPub? >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance for any insights. >>> I've done very little by way of conversion to electronic formats; I >>> found Calibre very satisfactory. It converts to many (all?) eformats >>> directly from OpenOffice .odt files (from other formats also), and >>> manages one's library on the ereader. Certainly worth >>> investigation. >> I finally had a chance to try this, and while I love the other aspects >> of Calibre, the conversion to epub wasn't great as regards it's handling >> of the styles. So -- to convert do you need a document without any >> formatting? >> >> Thanks >> >> Tam > I can't answer that in any detail; later this year I will have occasion to > convert a book text to some form of epub and will have to read up the > intricacies of Calibre's .odt conversion. I am aware that it can be fine > tuned to pick up and convert many of the formattings in the .odt, but haven't > looked into that in depth yet. Any form of format conversion usually entails > decision making about the compromises involved; a text formatted for (say) a > US Letter page may not adjust immediately to the reduced and dynamic > page/textflow of an ereader. What I have found that works rather well is to use Calibre to convert ODT to ePUB. Then I use Sigil to clean up the underlying html files. I use these settings in Sigil's Preferences in the Clean Source section: HTML Tiddy, Open, Save, and Replace all files. We had a post that mentioned Tiddy in a web article in which the author mentioned that using his method to clean up the code while converting OTD to ePUB. The only problem with the article is that there seems to be no information on the web for how to install Tiddy on Ubuntu (the OS that I use). Sigil seems to install and use Tiddy to clean up the code. FYI: The conversion of ODT to ePUB involves converting a single ODT file to multiple HTML files based upon your settings in Calibre. These files are zipped along with other information, and the zipped file is given the ePUB suffix. --Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
