save the original as docbook and use pandoc to convert to epub or epub3 and compare ;-)
On 8/15/13 7:20 AM, Joaquín Lameiro wrote: > Hi again. > > OK. I've been through the eLAIX extension and found it works quite well. I > have successfully exported the first chapter of the Getting started with LO > 4.0 guide (the one titled "Introducing LibreOffice"). Main problems I had > were: > > - eLAIX doesn't like custom styles for headings, I had to change the headings > to the standard values. I didn't gave them the properties the original > document headings had (fonts, colour, etc.) but it could be easily done. It's > probably useless, though, because most readers would ignore this settings. I > think Virgil had problems with customized styles with the writer2epub > extension too. > > - The first item on the lists would display different from the rest, because > two different custom styles were used to create lists in this ODT: one for > the first item and another for the rest of the list. Don't know why, but just > giving standard list style to all solved the problem. > > - For some reason I don't understand, but may be something regarding frames, > eLAIX failed to export the images embedded in the document. I solved this by > extracting the "Pictures" folder from the ODT file (I used 7-zip) and then > eliminating each image from the original document and inserting it again via > the macro provided by eLAIX itself to insert pictures. Then, the images were > properly exported. > > - eLAIX creates its own index, so I eliminated the ODT index. > > - When opening the epub file in my reader, I found a weird thing about the > "figure" fields. These are auto-numeric fields used in the captions that > follow images, like, let's say: "Figure 1, LibreOffice starting window". The > number here is introduced as a field (which is wise if one doesn't want to > keep on updating the captions manually). Well, my reader marked these as > links that linked to the beginning of the epub. This is not solved in my > export. Rough solution, to eliminate the field and work the captions manually. > > So, my experience with eLAIX is that it would do a pretty good job, but it > would take some time and effort. By the way, is there a method to make Writer > select all the text with a specific style so then one can change the style of > similar headings at a time? It will reduce a lot of work just to tell Write: > "take all the text styled as OOoHeader1 and change it into Header 1." > > Now, there is another much easier way to export ODT into EPUB, specially if > they are well built, like is the case with the LO documentation: to pass them > through the calibre ( http://calibre-ebook.com/ ) converter. I checked this > with the full Getting Started Guide. It took to it quite an hour and a half > in this laptop I'm using (which is not the most powerful one in the world) > and it gave a reasonably good EPUB. Just two main problems: > > - It changes page with each new chapter or sub-chapter, so the epub has more > pages than the ODT, and all the references in the original text (go to page > x") make no sense, though the links will still link to the good place. Same > thing for the numbers of page in the index. Maybe this can be fixed through > calibre's configuration, I haven't tried that. > > - Some frames are rendered in a way that they don't fit in the reader's > screen, so they remain partially illegible. > > Both these problems could be solved by editing the ODT prior to the calibre > exportation, eliminating the numbers of page in the references and the index > and making the frames smaller. > > Conclusion: eLAIX could do the job, is more flexible and works as a part of > Writer. Calibre will do a more quick and less accurate work, and is > third-party software, not related to LibreOffice. Still, if one just uses the > exporting tools of eLAIX and calibre without any previous editing of the ODT > files, calibre will come with a much better epub than eLAIX. > > But all of this means nothing if you don't check the epubs by yourselves. How > can I share them? I'm not sure that attaching them to a mail to this list > would be the appropriate way. I wait for your comments. > > Regards, > Joaquín > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
