Re: [libreoffice-users] Filtered html document

I have played around a lot with converting documents to Kindle format. I 
have used a couple different methods.

1. With LO, I use the "Save as" command to save the document in an HTML 
format. Do NOT use the Export to HTML feature as, for whatever reason, the 
resulting HTML file is not nearly as clean as when using the "Save as" 
command. Once saved in the HTML format, I then load it into Calibre, an open 
source e-book converter. Calibre works really well to convert the HTML 
document into a MOBI Kindle format, and it has many features I'm only 
beginning to explore. Using this method, I get a fairly good Kindle format, 
with a couple exceptions. When LO converts to HTML, it inserts an extra 
space between paragraphs, even though I don't have it in the LO document. 
This is not unusual with HTML documents. Also with numbered and bulleted 
lists, it inserts both an <li> and a <p> tag for each paragraph. It is 
apparently good HTML coding, and displays properly in a Browser, but when it 
gets converted to MOBI format and downloaded to the Kindle, you get 
something like this:

*
   First bulleted item.

*
   Second bulleted item.

It's quite annoying, but it can be fixed by editing the HTML code directly 
in a text editor.

2. The best solution that I have found, however, is the word processor 
Atlantis (shareware, free download, $35.00 registration). They have been 
focusing more on e-book publishing than any other word processor that I have 
found. They have an "export to EPUB" feature. EPUB is the default format for 
the Nook. It can then be converted to Kindle MOBI through Calibre. The 
resulting Kindle file is VERY well formatted and as close to what I 
originally wrote -- no extra spacing between paragraphs and no extra 
paragraph ending tags for numbered lists. It also has a feature where you 
can easily add any photo file as a book cover.

3. Another option, still a work in progress, is Sigil, which is a free EPUB 
editor. It's still a little rough around the edges, but using it, you can 
get a good education in how to format an e-book.

Virgil



-----Original Message----- 
From: Thomas Blasejewicz
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 5:11 AM
To: Users@Global.LibreOffice.Org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Filtered html document

Good evening everybody

I am trying to make something available through Kindle.
For some reason Amazon recommends preparing the original document as
".doc" or ".docx" file
and in a final step:
save as -> "Filtered html document"
(in order to remove MS office codes)

What would be the "equivalent" for saving a file in LO when I, as it
happens to be the case, do not like working with Word?
And would that option produce the results Amazon is looking for?

Thank you in advance.
Thomas

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