Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice Book

Hi :)
A few years ago the Documentation Team did a lot of trialling converters to
ePub format(s?) but none were quite up to the job.

At best quite a bit of tinkering had to be done before or/and after the
initial conversion.  I'm fairly sure Dan was one of, quite possibly THE
main person, working on trying to get the conversions as smooth as
possible.  For those who don't know, Dan has many years experience in the
professional publishing industry (as have many in the tiny Documentation
Team) as well as some really great work in the Documentation Team.

If anyone has had some success, particularly in the last couple of years,
in converting anything to ePub then right now could be a good time for 'us'
to have another bash at it.

Regards from
Tom :)



On 26 March 2016 at 01:39, Dave Stevens <geek@uniserve.com> wrote:

> 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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