On 05/10/2013 04:46 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Hi Dan, Does that workflow you describe preserve the Table of
Contents from the document, so it becomes a proper TOC in EPUB, not
list a list of hyperlinks?
-Rob
I would think the answer is yes, but it depends upon what you mean
by "proper TOC". It is a list of the headings used in the document in
the form of hyperlinks. When one of these is clicked, you are taken to
the selected heading. Each level of the TOC has a style applied to it
that has at least two properties: font size, and left margin. So, the
TOC contains indentations that are determined by the level of a
particular heading.
I'm not sure if this answers your concerns. If you want, I could
convert a copy of AOO3_4_chapter_template1.odt and send it to you
off-line. I have the template so it is no problem creating the odt file
from it.
--Dan
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