Hi Teresa, I think you'll have the best luck doing the ePub conversion with Pages, as Mark suggests. I'll just mention that Jonathan Chacón did construct a service to convert TXT, RTF, PDF and HTML format eBooks to ePub using scripts to run Calibre in command line, and made it available at his web log site in August 2010. The web page was: http://programaraciegas.weblog.discapnet.es/articulo.aspx?idA=1897 There were headings in Spanish and English: • "Servicio accesible de conversión a ePub para MacOS X" • "accessible ePub conversion service for MacOS X" This was the direct download link for the zip file on that page: http://programaraciegas.weblog.discapnet.es/archivos/id38/textConversionService.zip
The problem is that this web site doesn't seem to be on-line currently, and hasn't been when I tried it a few times recently. Jonathan has a new web site that is accessed by his free iPhone RSS app (in Spanish), "Programar a ciegas RSS" by Tyflos Accessible Software. My guess is that Pages will do a better conversion job for you, anyway, since this was a generic conversion (without title, etc. information added). But I just thought I would mention this. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Apr 16, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > > Thanks, Mark. I'm going to try this. I'll post my results on this thread. > Really appreciate your time with this. I'm very curious to know if I can > replace my legacy notetaker with these methonds, to be honest. > > Take care, > Teresa > "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham > > On Apr 16, 2012, at 9:01 PM, M. Taylor wrote: > >> Hello Theresa, >> >> If you purchase the latest version of Pages from the Mac App Store for >> approximately $10, you can save your work as either a PDF or an eBook. >> >> When saving, select EPUB and the help tag will say that the file will be >> readable in iBooks. >> >> Mark >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Teresa Cochran >> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 11:26 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Don't Seem To Be Having Much Luck Reading brf-to-Epub in >> IBooks; Anyone else? >> >> Hi, Mark, >> It's a Mac Mini running Lion. >> >> Teresa >> "We are made of star-stuff"--Carl Sagan, Cosmos >> >> On Apr 16, 2012, at 11:07 AM, M. Taylor wrote: >> >>> Theresa, >>> >>> Is your computer a Mac or a Windows PC? >>> >>> Mark >>> On Apr 16, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, Mark and all, >>>> >>>> Yes, and it doesn't work either. Interesting. So it's probably not the >> brf format that's causing the trouble. >>>> >>>> Have you tried any other converters? I can't seem to get the hang of >> Calibre in command-line. I think I'll try one of the online conversion tools >> and see how that goes. >>>> >>>> Teresa >>>> >>>> "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. >> Feynman >>>> >>>> On Apr 15, 2012, at 3:59 PM, M. Taylor wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello Theresa, >>>>> >>>>> I do not use Stanza. >>>>> >>>>> However, have you tried saving a plain text file with a few sentences as >> an eBook and test it in iBooks? >>>>> >>>>> Mark >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Apr 15, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, all, >>>>>> >>>>>> IBooks doesn't like the epub files that I produce, for some reason. >> Here's what I do. >>>>>> >>>>>> I open a brf file in TextEdit, copy all the text, open Stanza, choose >> "new from clipboard" from the file menu, and save it as an Epub document in >> my ITunes Books folder. I then sync it to my IPod. It says "unknown". I >> experimented with changing the info tags so that they show the title and >> author once I enter them in manually. >>>>>> >>>>>> When I open IBooks, it hangs and is unresponsive. the Braille does not >> display at all, and I get a few stuttered words when I turn on speech just >> to experiment. (I'm aware speech can't read the books.) >>>>>> >>>>>> So I'm wondering if I'm missing any steps somewhere. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Teresa >>>>>> >>>>>> "Nobody ever tells me anything!"--James Forsyte, quoted in the Forsyte >> Saga >>>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
