06-19-2024, 01:00 AM | #1 |
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My First Conversion Attempt
I'm totally new to Calibra, so I don't understand the process well and I'll make plenty of mistakes, but I thought I'd describe my first attempt and ask if this is normal.
I converted a 300+ page book from PDF to ePUB. It took a few minutes, quite understandable. When I reviewed the result I could see I still had a lot of work ahead of me.
Is all this normal? Mike Last edited by m610; 06-19-2024 at 01:03 AM. |
06-19-2024, 01:07 AM | #2 |
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https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=118605
PDF is a 'paste up' format. That means things are placed upon a page where they GO, not in a linear, top down order. Really want a mess. Take a 2 column PDF |
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Yes that is normal for PDF.
See the calibre manual: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/con...#pdfconversion Quote:
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06-19-2024, 01:14 AM | #4 |
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Thanks, all.
Would it be better if I converted ASCII text? I work with WordPerfect, but I doubt Calibra will handle that. I need to check to see if WordPerfect can output to ePUB. Mike |
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06-19-2024, 01:38 AM | #6 |
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Save as ODT or DOCX.
caliber manual is your friend. https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/con...-specific-tips bernie edit: Go to the Baen Free Library and download a ebook in RTF format use it to practice. Last edited by gbm; 06-19-2024 at 01:44 AM. |
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Using Wordperfect and saving the book as HTML worked pretty well. It had a table of contents, photos had captions, fonts were preserved, etc.
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I'll definitely look at some ePUB books. I'm curious to see if they have a bastard title page, title page, what the copyright page looks like, etc.
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06-19-2024, 04:56 AM | #9 |
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See can LO Writer open your Wordperfect files, and what formats WP can save/export in.
Which Wordperfect is it? Edit LO Writer in odt, but an extra Save As in docx for Calibre. Switch to LO Writer. Wordperfect for Windows was dead twenty years to thirty years ago. Wordperfect for DOS dead 35 years ago. Edit: LO Writer certainly opens some versions of Wordperfect directly. It's free and runs on Mac, Windows and Linux. Last edited by Quoth; 06-19-2024 at 04:59 AM. |
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I'm using Wordperfect X7, and it is ten years old, but far from dead.
Link: https://www.wordperfect.com/en/ I've been using WP since DOS days and will keep using it as long as it is supported, and then some. By the way, the PC I use for writing runs Win XP, version 2002. For my writing, there is no reason to upgrade. I have other computers for video production, web creation, etc. The latest versions of WP do export to ePUB. I might try that. The version I exported from WP to HTML recently looks okay. It even has the right type of table of contents, keeps my fonts, and the photos and illustrations came through, even with the captions intact. It's probably not eBook-ready, but it looks closer than what I got converting from PDF using Calibra. It'll be interesting to see what Calibra can do with the HTML version. |
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06-22-2024, 08:08 AM | #12 |
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I used LO Writer on XP till 2016.
I've used Wordstar (CP/M and DOS), Wordstar 2000, Wordperfect (DOS and Windows), MS Word (DOS and Windows versions from 2.0a to 2007), Star Office, Open Office. I even taught word processing. I've written maybe over 2 M words using LO Writer. The docx input (via an extra save as) is by far the best import route to Calibre from word processing. |
06-22-2024, 11:31 PM | #13 |
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Wot, no Multimate!
Be interesting to see an EPUB save from Wordperfect. I sometimes use the Mammoth route to get a better mapping of Word's styles to the EPUB CSS entries. Maybe DOCX->WP->EPUB would be better than DOCX->Mammoth(Sigil PI)->EPUB. BR |
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