The Webinar mentioned later is an hour long infomercial about the
eBook Evolution product. There were also a general outline of the
process that was very general in nature. I'm not sure if there was
anything in it that could not be learned from other sources, but the
general ideas presented might help someone. Perhaps the free seminars
might be more specific.
As far as the link to the free brown bag webinars, the outline of
the two webinars available at the link below contains some of the same
information found in the ultimate-ebook webinar that I watched from the
second link. Neither link seems to give enough information for it to be
useful to me.
Disclaimer: I use Linux as my OS exclusively, so none of this
information is of any use to me that I can see.
Perhaps an ODT template can be developed by a person for AOO that
could be used with Calibre to create an ePUB document that has fairly
clean code. This could then be used by people who only use Linux.
--Dan
On 05/10/2013 12:10 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
Pamela Wilson provides some free seminars on making ebooks,
<http://www.bigbrandsystem.com/free-brown-bag-webinars/#3>.
Apache OpenOffice Writer is featured as the preferred authoring too. The
bundled materials that are for sale include ODT templates. There is also
guidance and explanation of what it takes to format for EPUB and have good
results. EPUB formats are restricted and attempting to make a heavily styled
document is not a good idea. The proposed approach works for submissions of
Kindle books also.
The associated materials are not inexpensive, in the $100-$200 US range. They
are intended for folks who are serious about publishing or who want to provide
authoring services to others. After the initial expense, there is no reuse
limitation and there are no royalty obligations, however. Calibre for creating
eReader-ready format. There is an assumption that folks are using Windows or
Macintosh OSX.
There's an On-Demand Webinar for eBook Evolution that is recommended for folks
who are not professional authors/writers as well. I presume that it features
the eBook Evolution package that is offered as a product. I haven't explored
this:
<http://www.bigbrandsystem.com/ultimate-ebook-kickstart/>.
- Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Lewis [mailto:elderdanle...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 03:53
To:users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: EPUB from OpenOffice
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.
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
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