[thelist] E-book authoring

[Joel Canfield]

Er, he's talking epub TO --> PDF, not the other way 'round.

Converting to PDF is just printing postscript. Hard to imagine any app
failing it very hard, but the source doc could go straight to PDF a hundred
better ways than via calibre.


On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Chris Price <chris.t.price at gmail.com>wrote:

> The problem with PDF conversions isn't to do with Calibre it's the PDF.
> PDF is crap to convert from.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 29 Aug 2013, at 19:18, "Simon MacDonald" <simonmacdonald at uk2.net>
> wrote:
>
> > I agree about Calibre - I use it as a conversion tool, but it's a bit
> flaky
> > on epub ->pdf conversions.
> >
> > I use Kindle's previewer - it allows you to see it in various Kindle
> device
> > views and converts  epub to mobi on the fly .
> > http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000234621
> >
> > But again, Sigil is good - has a built in editor  or edits xhtml mode,
> but
> > you have to code  your own css.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Simon
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
> > [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Chris Price
> > Sent: 29 August 2013 17:38
> > To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> > Subject: Re: [thelist] E-book authoring
> >
> > I used this tutorial to build epub and mobi:
> > http://www.jedisaber.com/eBooks/formatsource.shtml
> >
> > I've hand coded the books I've produced so that I get precisely the
> result
> > I'm after. The first one took ages but once I'd got a template it was
> much
> > easier to do. Because its pure xhtml/css you could edit it in a standard
> > html text editor but some of the formatting will be ignored. I use
> Calibre
> > to convert ePub to mobi.
> >
> >
> > On 29 August 2013 14:48, Barney Carroll <barney.carroll at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Can anybody recommended any decent material on how to format and
> >> structure epub with regards to what's applicable in the current e-reader
> > market?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Barney Carroll
> >>
> >> barney.carroll at gmail.com
> >> +44 7429 177278
> >>
> >> barneycarroll.com
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> > Chris.Price
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