Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice Book

Quoting Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>:

> 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

I used calibre just now to convert to epub. You can read it all right,  
but there's a lot of formatting that doesn't make it.

D

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