New LibreOffice Book

users
#1

Quoting Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>:

Bruce Byfield wrote:

This is my busy season at work so I haven't had a lot of time, yet,
but I downloaded the PDF version and took a quick look at a couple of
chapters I need the most. I'm quite impressed. Good job!

An epub version would be nice. I find they work better on
tablets than pdf.

I hope an epub version is coming. However, porting
highly-formatted material
to .epub format can be difficult, so it's going to take some time.

If anybody has any advice, I would appreciate hearing it.

Calibre <http://calibre-ebook.com/> is an open source ebook manager
which can import various formats, including ODT, and convert to
various formats, including EPUB. I haven't used it much; about the
most I've done is convert a couple of CHM (Windows help) files to
AZW3 to read on a Kindle, which seemed to work reasonably well. On
the Kindle, images are scaled to fit on the page, but a
press-and-hold allows them to be enlarged to full screen and zoomed
in further to see detail. I don't know how well it does with
complex documents, but may be worth trying.

     I have used calibre to convert Getting Started with Base from
ODT to ePUB format.

Dan

I used calibre just now to convert to epub. You can read it all right,
but there's a lot of formatting that doesn't make it.

D

--

   You are correct. For a good conversion between formats, you need to use the editor component of calibre. With this, the styles can be corrected. It takes several hours to do this. Using search and replace can make it quicker. Regular expressions can be used to make it even quicker. Patience and practice will help too.
    I have written a document about how to use calibre to do this, but it needs to be updated. Is someone needing this?

Dan

#2

I for one would certainly be interested in your document. I've used Calibre
only slightly, and would certainly like to see how to do what you describe.

-Frank

#3

I am using Ubuntu 15.10 64-bit with MATE.

I use Calibre every time I get an error, like unsupported format, when trying to read books and documents on my 10 inch Android tablet.

At times I have to use one set of formatting settings, while sometimes other settings, to get the source .epub documents/books to work correctly. ALSO, I tend to reformat PDF files to be an easier read than in its original "small print" page formatting, since these PDF pages have their text too small for my eyes to read without eye strain.

#4

Quoting elderdanlewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>:

From: Dave Stevens <geek@uniserve.com>
Date:03/25/2016 9:39 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice Book

Quoting Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>:

Bruce Byfield wrote:

This is my busy season at work so I haven't had a lot of time, yet,
but I downloaded the PDF version and took a quick look at a couple of
chapters I need the most. I'm quite impressed. Good job!

An epub version would be nice. I find they work better on
tablets than pdf.

I hope an epub version is coming. However, porting
highly-formatted material
to .epub format can be difficult, so it's going to take some time.

If anybody has any advice, I would appreciate hearing it.

Calibre <http://calibre-ebook.com/> is an open source ebook manager
which can import various formats, including ODT, and convert to
various formats, including EPUB. I haven't used it much; about the
most I've done is convert a couple of CHM (Windows help) files to
AZW3 to read on a Kindle, which seemed to work reasonably well. On
the Kindle, images are scaled to fit on the page, but a
press-and-hold allows them to be enlarged to full screen and zoomed
in further to see detail. I don't know how well it does with
complex documents, but may be worth trying.

     I have used calibre to convert Getting Started with Base from
ODT to ePUB format.

Dan

I used calibre just now to convert to epub. You can read it all right,
but there's a lot of formatting that doesn't make it.

D

--

   You are correct. For a good conversion between formats, you need to use the editor component of calibre. With this, the styles can be corrected. It takes several hours to do this. Using search and replace can make it quicker. Regular expressions can be used to make it even quicker. Patience and practice will help too.
    I have written a document about how to use calibre to do this, but it needs to be updated. Is someone needing this?

Dan

why not post it anyway Dan, with caveat if necessary, and let folks see what needs doing, it might be useful anyway.

Dave

#5

Hi :slight_smile:
+1

Someone on this mailing list might be able to do the updating for you Dan
Lewis. I'd guess that the ideas in your guide would be helpful and then
people can just figure out how to implement them efficiently. Isn't that
the "release early and release often" plan?
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: