On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:38:03 -0500 Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> dijo:
>On 12/30/2010 09:17 AM, Astrobob Group wrote: >> >>> Message: 8 >>> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:12:02 -0800 >>> From: John Jason Jordan<johnxj at comcast.net> >>> Subject: [scribus] What about E-PUB format? >>> To: Scribus<scribus at lists.scribus.info> >>> Message-ID:<20101229201202.32bda40a at mailhost.pdx.edu> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >> >>> Assuming not, is there a workaround, like exporting to PDF or >>> something else and then converting the output to E-PUB? Has anyone >>> here published anything in E-PUB format? >>> >> Hello John, >> >> I don't own a reader or pad yet, but I use Calibre. Maybe you are not >> yet aware that in Calibre you are capable of converting to another >> format. just right click on the book/document you want to convert& >> select convert>convert individually (or as bulk if u want several >> book to be converted). Alternatively you can just highlight the >> book& press "c". Then you go on selecting your output format in the >> upper right corner of the window. > >I have a Kindle, and it can handle PDFs, either through Amazon's >mechanism of putting things on your Kindle or by direct file transfer. >In many cases the complex layout of PDFs is not suited well to the >Kindle -- you either have to do a lot of scrolling or the size of the >page makes the print small and hard to read. > >If one just had text and no graphics, you might as well leave it in >plain text or RTF, in which case you can either use Amazon's ability >to transform those into MOBI and then download to your Kindle or use >Calibre. > >For these reasons, I don't see a value in Scribus itself needing to >export to EPUB. It's a very different concept. EPUB is about the text >content, not about the layout. Thanks to all who responded. I have learned a lot. My need for e-book format is not imminent. I asked about it only because I had been thinking about it ever since I got C?dric G?my's book and read it in Calibre's e-book viewer. Eventually I may need to do an e-book, but perhaps not for a long time. After investigating a bit more I have come to the conclusion that the only format that will do for my work is PDF. That is because I write materials in linguistics and need to specify the font so the user cannot change it. There are thousands of fonts out there, but fewer than a dozen faces that have the glyphs that I need. I noticed that, at least in e-pub format, the reader that came with Calibre allows the user to change the font, which will just not do. Not only do I need to specify the font, but I also cannot allow text reflow, lest it mess up formulas. I suppose I could create the formulas as raster images to prevent reflowing them, but PDF solves the font problem as well as issues with formulas. I thought the E-PUB format would work, but apparently not.
