On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 01:35:14 AM Tim Deaton wrote: > -- Tim > =========================== > 225 Janice Drive > Athens, GA 30606-1638 > email: [email protected] > home: 706-543-0592 > cell: 706-248-6544 > fax: 888-415-5991 > web: www.timdeaton.org > =========================== > I know the plans I have for you: > Plans to prosper you and not to harm you; > Plans to give you hope and a future. > --- God (Jeremiah 29:11) > > On 10/28/2013 11:04 PM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: > > (2013/10/29 2:06), Tim Deaton wrote: > >> Did you zip up the html file and the subdirectory containing the > >> images as one operation? And did your settings also save the > >> relative path of the subdirectory? > >> > >> If you zipped the html file, and then went to the subdirectory and > >> zipped the files there (even into the same zip file), the zip file > >> would then not have the relative relationship info needed. The > >> same > >> failure would happen if you zipped it all at once, but had the > >> setting to save the relative path turned off. > >> > >> -- Tim > >> =========================== > >> > >> On 10/28/2013 8:31 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: > >>> On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 18:58 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: > >>>> Good evening from Japan > >>>> Maybe I did ask a similar question before ... > >>>> > >>>> I wrote a book using Writer which I am now trying to upload to > >>>> Kindle. > >>>> > >>>> The instructions say, I must save the file as html and then > >>>> create > >>>> a zip > >>>> file from the html file + the images. > >>>> "Save as ... html" creates a content file and a whole long list > >>>> of > >>>> files > >>>> for the images. > >>>> ... > >>> > >>> Thomas > >>> > >>> I would contact Amazon technical support and ask what is the > >>> problem. It > >>> appears that they want the images in the same directory as the > >>> html > >>> files. If so, it is relatively easy to correct the html file > >>> references to the images, if a bit tedious, and move the images > >>> into the same folder. LO actual exports html in the preferred > >>> mode with the images stored in separate folder. > > > > Thank you. > > I am afraid, I am not following you. > > "save the relative path of the subdirectory" ... > > Where and how am I supposed to do that. > > This morning I tried to > > * save the Writer file as html > > * copy the created/indexed image files into a separate folder (like > > the "Word procedure") > > * zipped both. > > But nowhere I can see any setting/check boxes etc. (including > > options > > -> paths) where I can set a relative path ... > > And the uploaded zip file again gives the same error. > > So does the zip file created with Word for that matter. > > First of all, I am no expert. I have not (until just now) tried > saving an odt document as an html document, and it has been a decade > since I tried it (in a class) with MS Word. But I have saved web > pages to my hard drive, including backup copies of the code of my own > website generated by my wysiwyg editor. > > In all that saved code (including from the 2002 class using MS Word), > the basic structure I see is a file with the .html extension and a > subdirectory with the same name - except that the ".html" is replaced > with "_files". Inside that subdirectory are all the other files (gif, > jpg, css, ..) that are part of that webpage. So the result looks > something like this: > \website_test <-parent directory > test_page_files <-subdirectory with files used by the .html > file test_page.html <-html file > > To archive that into a .zip file, you open your archive program, go to > the "\website_test" directory, and add both the .html file and the > subdirectory into the .zip file. (Older archiving programs I've used > gave you the option of whether to remember the relative directory > structure or not. That's why I asked about the settings. The program > I currently use - 7zip - doesn't appear to give you a choice; it > always remembers the directory structure, which is what you want.) > > When you look at the .html file with a text editor, you see all the > code. If the .html uses a picture file called sample.jpg, then > somewhere in that code you will see a reference that looks something > like this: > <IMG SRC="test_page_files/sample.jpg" NAME="graphics1" ALIGN=LEFT > WIDTH=350 HEIGHT=350 BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR> > > HOWEVER, based on the test I did when starting this reply, LO Writer > appears to do things somewhat differently. > > I opened an existing .odt file, added a picture to it, and used "save > as" to save it to "test_page.odt". Then I used "save as" again to > save it to "test_page.html". It DID NOT create the structure I've > always seen elsewhere and which I outlined above. First, when you > open the file in your browser, the formatting will not look the same > as it did in LO. Second (a minor point), the .jpg gets a random > 8-digit name instead of keeping the name of the original picture. > But more importantly, the picture is NOT stored in a sub-directory. > Instead, the name of the .html file (with underscores replacing the > extension dot and trailing the "html") is appended to the beginning > of the .jpg name, and the .jpg file is stored in the SAME directory > as the .html file. Finally, the picture is referenced in the .html > file as shown here: > <IMG SRC="test_page_html_m6869e14e.jpg" NAME="graphics1" ALIGN=LEFT > WIDTH=350 HEIGHT=350 BORDER=0><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR> > > This change in file structure is most likely what Amazon was having > trouble with. > > As to fixing the problem I see: After saving the file as an .html > file, I would try to do this: > 1. Create a new parent directory to work in, and copy your > "test_page.html" file into it. > 1. Create a subdirectory called "test_page_files" to match the > "test_page.html" file. > 2. Copy all those "test_page_html_*.* files into that subdirectory. > 3. Rename all those files in that subdirectory by removing the > "test_page_html_" from the filenames. > 4. Open the .html file in a good text editor. I use the free "NoteTab > Light", which runs in Windows. > 5. Use Find/Replace to replace all instances of "test_page_html_" with > "test_page_files/". > 6. Save the result, then double-click on the .html file to verify that > it opens in your browser and is accurate. > > If the results are acceptable, then zip it up, re-submit it and see if > they like it now. If not, then you need advice from someone who > knows more than I do. > > I hope this helps. > -- Tim > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > 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
Unless I am reading the first link Steve Edmonds posted yesterday, Amazon wants the html, images, css etc all in one folder with no sub folders when the book is sent to them. Russ -- openSUSE 12.3(Linux 3.11.1-3.gfeffbf9-desktop)|KDE 4.11.2 |Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ,|8GB DDR3|GeForce 8400GS (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-325.15 Patched) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] 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
