Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice Book

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From: Dave Stevens <geek@uniserve.com> 
Date:03/25/2016  9:39 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com> 
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Subject: 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

> -- 

   You are correct. For a good conversion between formats, you need to use the editor component of 
calibre. With this, the styles can be corrected. It takes several hours to do this. Using search 
and replace can make it quicker. Regular expressions can be used to make it even quicker. Patience 
and practice will help too.
    I have written a document about how to use calibre to do this, but it needs to be updated. Is 
someone needing this? 

Dan



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