On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/10/2013 04:27 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: >> >> On Fri, 10 May 2013 02:31:33 -0500 >> Tamblyne <tambl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 4/2/2013 4:01 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:49:13 -0400 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> *I see several extensions in the repository that offer EPub digital >>>>> book conversion from OpenOffice: >>>>> >>>>> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/epubGenerator* >>>>> * http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/Writer2ePub* >>>>> * http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/odftoepub* >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone have experience with these, and a recommendation? Or >>>>> is there some other tool that you would suggest for publishing to >>>>> EPub? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance for any insights. >>>> >>>> I've done very little by way of conversion to electronic formats; I >>>> found Calibre very satisfactory. It converts to many (all?) eformats >>>> directly from OpenOffice .odt files (from other formats also), and >>>> manages one's library on the ereader. Certainly worth >>>> investigation. >>> >>> I finally had a chance to try this, and while I love the other aspects >>> of Calibre, the conversion to epub wasn't great as regards it's handling >>> of the styles. So -- to convert do you need a document without any >>> formatting? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Tam >> >> I can't answer that in any detail; later this year I will have occasion to >> convert a book text to some form of epub and will have to read up the >> intricacies of Calibre's .odt conversion. I am aware that it can be fine >> tuned to pick up and convert many of the formattings in the .odt, but >> haven't looked into that in depth yet. Any form of format conversion usually >> entails decision making about the compromises involved; a text formatted for >> (say) a US Letter page may not adjust immediately to the reduced and dynamic >> page/textflow of an ereader. > > What I have found that works rather well is to use Calibre to convert > ODT to ePUB. Then I use Sigil to clean up the underlying html files. I use > these settings in Sigil's Preferences in the Clean Source section: HTML > Tiddy, Open, Save, and Replace all files.
Hi Dan, Does that workflow you describe preserve the Table of Contents from the document, so it becomes a proper TOC in EPUB, not list a list of hyperlinks? -Rob > We had a post that mentioned Tiddy in a web article in which the author > mentioned that using his method to clean up the code while converting OTD to > ePUB. The only problem with the article is that there seems to be no > information on the web for how to install Tiddy on Ubuntu (the OS that I > use). Sigil seems to install and use Tiddy to clean up the code. > FYI: The conversion of ODT to ePUB involves converting a single ODT > file to multiple HTML files based upon your settings in Calibre. These files > are zipped along with other information, and the zipped file is given the > ePUB suffix. > > --Dan > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
