One of the main interest of e-books is to be device-independent, so you should in fact stay clear of scribus for that kind of use. (unless you mean an adobe acrobat document by 'e-book' in which case layout is relevant.)
Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 01/14/2010 12:16 PM, Aljosa Vidmar wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I would like to turn a 100-page OOo Writer document into a relatively >> simple eBook with Scribus. I've dabbled with Scribus before (small, >> max. 3-page documents) and I've read a few tutorials, but I haven't >> found any directions on how to typeset a book. My text is, as I said >> before, an OOo document; it has 100 pages (9 chapters, TOC, front >> cover), there are no images, only formated text. I'd like to hear some >> tips& directions on how to go about this task. I don't need a lengthy >> tutorial, just very short (one sentence) instructions, step-by-step. >> > Trying to keep it as simple as possible, I would make a Scribus doc > with automatic text frames, one or 2 columns as desired -- I guess 1 > column would work better for an eBook, and also I wouldn't bother with > left/right pages. Take an educated guess at the number of pages, but > don't worry about it too much. You can delete anything you don't need, > and if you add pages, the frames will be automatically created and > linked. Import your ODT file and the text will be formatted as in > oowriter, styles created as needed. > > That should be it other than tweaking the layout if desired. Sorry, > that was 4 sentences. > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
