Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Write2epub

Hi :)
Are you guys looking for this template?
http://www.kindletemplate.com/
I contacted the site woners and they have agreed to add the name LibreOffice to their site 
alongside (or perhaps instead of) OpenOffice.

This article
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ebook-publishing-using-linux-tools

or something like this?
http://www.kindleexpert.com/template/

Regards from
Tom :)



--- On Sat, 11/2/12, drew <drew@baseanswers.com> wrote:

From: drew <drew@baseanswers.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Write2epub
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Saturday, 11 February, 2012, 15:48

On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 07:10 -0800, Pedro wrote:
> drewjensen wrote
> > PDF is just another throw back to printing on dead trees in this regard,
> > where the creator of the file sets the size of the layout when the file
> > is generated. 
> >
> > This has additional implications, such as page counts and the use of
> > page numbers in a table of contents and index, 
>
> That is a little unfair on PDF! PDF is excellent for archiving documents as
> IF they were printed. It saves on trees and it saves on disk space (compared
> to digitized images of documents).

Hi Pedro,

1st - if we continue this, and I would not mind at all, how about we
kick it over to the discuss list?

But for the moment.

So we are in agreement - PDF does a great job of replicating the printed
page.

> The fixed page size and numbering is extremely important when you are
> referring to some portion of a document. It doesn't make sense to say, "in
> the third paragraph of page 20" and then because the text was re-flowed to
> fit in a 3" screen that paragraph is in page 100...

Well, stop thinking that way (hey didn't I adomish against such
statement in a recent email...ah humans we are all schytzoid)...

Instead of saying "see the scratch mark on tablet 4", use a hyperlink.
It will be just as valid when the pages flow differently on different
devices.


> Another big advantage of PDF (when loaded in a PC, Win or Linux, and
> probably on a Mac) is that you can embed the fonts so you know your page
> will look *exactly* like you designed it. Apparently this does not work in a
> Kindle, so it is expected that they will look different because fonts are
> being replaced (as in an epub)

Yup - embedded fonts = hard coding. 

I'm not saying there is no place for PDF and it's like just that there
are other ways to view the world, the new world.

// drew

> Just my 2 cents ;)
>
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