> I’ve a 75,000 word story (fiction) which I’m trying to turn into an
> ebook. I use Calibre (www.calibre-ebook.com) for my ebook library
> management which will also convert files to epub. The problem I’m having
> is figuring out how to get the file in the right format before I give it
> to Calibre’s input Plugin which then converts the file to XHTML. Calibre
> takes that XHTML and returns an epub and then converts that epub to
> multiple ebook formats.
>
> Can Frame create the XHTML? Should I be using structured Framemaker? Do
> other people on this forum publish ebooks?
>
> Thanks for your advice.
Just out of curiousity, I took a WebWorks ePublisher project which I'd
used to create web-based help and added an ePub target to the project.
The result was very good - about 90 percent was fine. There were a few
things that I'd have to fix, mostly involving tables, but I don't think it
would take much work (hours, not days) to come up with a perfectly usuable
ePub book.
A couple of caveats:
- I was working from a fairly clean, unstructured, FrameMaker book and a
WebWorks template that has already undergone several releases and
revisions. If you're not familiar with WebWorks, it might take some time
to get to that point.
- I used the ePUBReaer add-in for Firefix to view the results. I don't
have an eBook reader that will read ePub-format eBooks (I have a Kindle).
So there might be issues that would be apparent on an eBook reader that I
can't see in the PC version.
Still, it's pretty impressive performance for something that took me about
5 minutes to set up and run.
Regards
Keith
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Keith Soltys
Senior Technical Writer
Architecture
TMX Group
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