On Apr 2, 2014, at 2:34 PM, V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> wrote:
> Top posting answer to Hal... > > See either of two ways to proceed, since LibreOffice already bases it PDF > page rendering on Poppler and bundles it, you might as well work against > that and write a LibreOffice extension. > > Alternative might be the java source code from Writer2LaTex project > (http://writer2latex.sourceforge.net/ ) for the Writer2xhtml that will handle > ODF document conversion directly to EPUB. Or simply use the extension as is > with LibreOffice. > > Stuart Thanks! I had not thought of LaTex. I’ve never had to use it before, so it’s always been "something they use," and I missed it. And, believe it or not, I had not thought of EPUB. Guess that’s why I ask questions like this! Hal > -----Original Message----- >> From: Hal Vaughan [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 12:49 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Non-PDF Portable Document Formats (Exporting >> from LO) >> >> I'm working on an e-reader for special purposes. While I don't want to go >> into a discussion of the point of this program and why I'm doing another, a >> brief summary may help. As a writer, I don't like sending my work over email >> or other insecure methods of internet transfer. This e-reader would let me >> (and my writer friends) share our work easily with our friends while keeping >> it encrypted during transfer and even on the reader's computer. The file is >> read in and decrypted when displayed for reading. This would also let me >> make early drafts expire so they can be ditched when they're obsolete. >> >> I still haven't decided what language to use for this. Initially it'll work >> on OSX, >> Windows, and Linux. I'd like to expand it to Android and iOS. There's a >> good >> chance it'd be in C++ or Java, but it would be great if I could do it in >> Python. (I >> know of Kivy and other efforts that would make it easy for me to transport >> Python to at least Android.) >> >> The problem is I need some kind of portable document format. I know that >> implies, immediately, PDF. However, there seems to be only one library that >> handles PDF display, and that's Poppler. I'm not an expert programmer (at >> least not in C++), and when I've asked for help from the Poppler people, >> they've been abrupt and less than helpful. >> >> I'd like to be able to write in LO, then save or export my file, and have it >> in a >> format I can easily display on the different operating systems. >> >> I tried saving some files in HTML. The plain text ones were no problem at >> all. >> Margins and formatting was preserved just as I needed it. But then I tried >> one that was part of a pitch, so it had a page of text, then a page of >> pictures, >> basically two columns of pictures with captions below each picture. I loaded >> that in a browser and the formatting was okay on the first page, but was >> totally messed up on the 2nd page with the pictures. >> >> As best I can tell, at this point, there is not a portable library out there >> that I >> can use from within a program to easily display ODT files, but that would be >> a >> great solution. >> >> So what format can I use when exporting from LibreOffice, other than PDF, >> that can be easily displayed by any libraries in either Java, C++, or Python? >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> Hal > > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
