Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice Book

On 03/25/2016 05:22 PM, libreoffice-ml.mbourne@spamgourmet.com wrote:
> Bruce Byfield wrote:
> > On Friday, March 25, 2016 01:51:25 PM James Knott wrote:
> > > On 03/25/2016 01:42 PM, Dave Liesse wrote:
> > > > This is my busy season at work so I haven't had a lot of time, yet,
> > > > but I downloaded the PDF version and took a quick look at a couple of
> > > > chapters I need the most.  I'm quite impressed.  Good job!
> > >
> > > An epub version would be nice.  I find they work better on tablets 
> > > than pdf.
> >
> > I hope an epub version is coming. However, porting highly-formatted 
> > material
> > to .epub format can be difficult, so it's going to take some time.
> >
> > If anybody has any advice, I would appreciate hearing it.
>
> Calibre <http://calibre-ebook.com/> is an open source ebook manager 
> which can import various formats, including ODT, and convert to 
> various formats, including EPUB. I haven't used it much; about the 
> most I've done is convert a couple of CHM (Windows help) files to AZW3 
> to read on a Kindle, which seemed to work reasonably well. On the 
> Kindle, images are scaled to fit on the page, but a press-and-hold 
> allows them to be enlarged to full screen and zoomed in further to see 
> detail. I don't know how well it does with complex documents, but may 
> be worth trying.
     I have used calibre to convert Getting Started with Base from ODT 
to ePUB format.

Dan

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