Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice Book

Quoting elderdanlewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>:

> -------- Original message --------
> 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

why not post it anyway Dan, with caveat if necessary, and let folks  
see what needs doing, it might be useful anyway.

Dave

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