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What is your choice in moving from a dot file to ePub

rustyken 🚫

I use Libra Writer and have found pitfalls in moving a odt file to ePub. These are primarily related to removing unnecessary style commands in the ePub text. Bookapy's conversion works pretty well, and perhaps I should use that as a base.

One recent problem i had was with italic text when a sentence or paragraph was intended to be all italic. The result was normal text. However, when it was mixed style then it was as intended. Via an editor easily corrected, but a pain when it is a large document.

Suggestions?

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Argon 🚫

@rustyken

Which OS are you using?

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rustyken 🚫

@Argon

MAC

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Argon 🚫
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@rustyken

Okay, I write in Pages and export to ePub. Works well for me (and the readers) with just two format complaints in >1,500 downloads. You have to export without cover page and with free flowing text. I test the ePub files on my iPad, my MacBook (with 4 different readers) and on my wife's Sony reader before upload.

For editing, I export as .docx and open the edited .docx files in Pages again.

My covers are assembled in Keynote, exported as .pdf, opened in Preview, cropped and saved as .jpeg.

Switch Blayde 🚫

@rustyken

odt file to ePub

I'm on a Mac. I use Calibre to create my epubs.

But I don't use Libra Writer. I use Word. However, I believe Calibre accepts ODT files as input like it does DOCX.

John Demille 🚫

@rustyken

LibreOffice -> save as HTML

html file through Calibre to EPUB?

mimauk 🚫

@rustyken

I use "sigil epub" when I'm editing epubs. It has a very useful tool that you can use to -"reformat HTML files" and "prettify all HTML files" which gets rid of a lot of surplus junk. It has two panes - one in which you 'edit' and the other 'preview' is wysiwyg. Saves a lot of work.

https://sigil-ebook.com/sigil/

The Outsider 🚫

@rustyken

I'm also on a Mac, and use BBEdit (https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/) to write in MarkDown, convert to XHTML, then use Sigil (https://sigil-ebook.com/) to make epubs.

Fra Bartolo 🚫

@rustyken

I like Anthemion's Jutoh editor for both just conversion and editing. It's shareware and thus affordable, available for Windows, Mac and Linux and there's a "Pro" version that supports multiple output profiles. I think it's great alternative for thuse who don't want to muck about with HTML markup.

-FB

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What is your choice in moving from a dot file to ePub

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