Re: Great Stories Remembered II Download Epub Mobi Pdf Fb2
Keena Wiegert
While using Publisher to format the printed version, I needed to tweak the text so it fitted the physical space available on particular pages. That's one reason why the text in Publisher is different to its original sources. But as far as I can see, the only way to extract text from Publisher at present is via copy / paste?
Sorry, I don't have enough experience in that area to say. If no one here knows, and you investigate that approach further, you might check with the developers of whatever tool you are considering to get their advice on that.
Producing well-formatted eBooks is rather like the problem of producing webpages when all web browsers were different and worked to different standards: With the ePub output from PagePlus, I have used a code editor to inspect the output coding, line by line, in order to understand & overcome problems: A badly encoded eBook may well work OK with some eReaders & eReading software, but fail badly with others.
I am hoping gradually to replace my Serif PagePlus. Already I mostly use Affinity Photo instead of Serif PhotoPlus, although I'm not yet confident with some of the tools which greatly changed in version 1.7. I've not yet made friends with Affinity Designer: For a recent task, I had to revert to using a mixture of Serif DrawPlus and Inkscape... simply to change some text on SVG maps. Also, the PNG output seemed disappointing.
Perhaps partly because I'm writing about the history of a site spanning a couple of thousand years, I expect to reuse my old material in new projects, and to publish it in different ways: eg. Print, eBooks, audio files, websites, etc. etc. Much of the material for this current booklet, including the main diagram, is from the 1980s; extended and updated where necessary.
BTW. My initial attempts to copy / paste from Publisher did not go well: The pasted text had no spaces between paragraphs, so was hard to read. I also discovered that different parts of my booklet had slightly different paragraph styles, but that unlike in PagePlus, Publisher does not seem to provide an easy way to select all paragraphs which use a particular style so that they can all be changed to the correct style.
Thanks, but I thought that car advert had always to be glossy...? When I was looking for a car, many manufacturers offered their brochures as downloadable PDF files. But these were very frustrating to read: They were the PDF as sent to the printing company, sometimes even including crop marks etc. So were not designed for easy reading on a screen: I had to keep zooming in in order to read text, then scroll / pan looking for the next page. Many government leaflets suffer from the same problem: The downloadable PDF is designed for sending to the printer; not for easy reading on screen.
BTW. Pasting the text into Libre Office Writer can also preserve spaced between paragraphs. However, I had wanted to remove all formatting initially, so that nothing was left lurking in the text. Previously I've has problems with "split styles" where the styling code tags change within words.
The Amazon KDP service happily accepted the flowing ePub3 file created using PagePlus X9. I clicked the final "submit" button at about 10pm... by the early hours next morning, my new book was live for sale on Amazon Kindle.
It was a fine decision to avoid using a PDF and Calibre. If the process is improved today, and need less work than in the past, it's the same as opening a PDF in APub: no informations about styles, text "au kilomtre" (flowing endlessly or by pages, meaning page numbers and chapter headers can be in you main text, etc.). In the end, it's a lot of cleaning and re-formatting: too much work when we had cleaner text from the beginning.
I usually work on clean HTML files that I later import in Calibre, but since it's only for my personnal use, there's nothing important involved in this process. I would use Sigil or some other app or process if needed.
About advice for marketing, Kindle, writing and such, here's an autor and her followers or friends, authors ring (if this notion is still accurate or in use) that you can find usefull to read. At least it was for me, I know better the paper version of books work flow, than the digital one where I'm only mainly a customer
I usually work on clean HTML files that I later import in Calibre, but since it's only for my personal use, there's nothing important involved in this process. I would use Sigil or some other app or process if needed.
Thanks. Although I also publish webpages, I've never tried converting them to eBooks; probably because I started publishing eBooks only after getting Serif PagePlus. In fact I needed also to copy/paste text to update some of my webpages while creating these books.
I needed to publish this project as a printed booklet, as a Kindle eBook, and on webpages: I value flexible import & export options from programs, to avoid the need for recreating text. Also, some of my text and images were originally created decades ago using long lost tools: I value programs which can export material in "industry standard" formats so that the material can be imported into other or newer programs.
BTW. For similar reasons, I do not use Amazon Kindle's DRM: I prefer to trust people who buy my books and not to leave the material "locked" within one company's software. There is some "leakage," some of it via "sharing" websites, but probably to people who would never have paid for a copy.
For similar reasons, I do not use Amazon Kindle's DRM: I prefer to trust people who buy my books and not to leave the material "locked" within one company's software. There is some "leakage," some of it via "sharing" websites, but probably to people who would never have paid for a copy.
Thanks for authors like you. I'm testing ways to avoid Amazon since the authors gain more selling from their site, Patreon or other means. My choice depends of the difference between the selling price on Amazon and the other options (I can accept a difference of few euros or double price, but I can't see the logic of thrice or more the price).
Same problem here and disappointing indeed. I am left to export to PDF and then maybe use Kindle Create to convert. Calibre doesn't convert flawlessly. What was Affinity thinking, not including support for ePublishing.
Perhaps they're on the 1 version and need more time and full capabilities for this app to manage all the needed options in a regular document before working on different export options while the code isn't finished?
While a reader may think that a book is a book whether it is printed or e-book, they are actually very different things. Publisher excels in creating typographically high quality printed matter using features that mostly would have to be jettisoned when creating e-book version. And e-book, while feature set is very limited, needs to have its programming rules followed very strictly, not a simple task itself. Thus it is at the moment best to use tools developed specially for e-book publishing to get acceptable results.
For Apple users like me, Pages has ePub conversion. I used it before for a 250 page book and it worked fine for Kindle, Apple, Google, etc. I have had a book that sells among the top for its genre for several years using this ePub. The only glitch is that Pages has only a TOC, but not an index function. I built the index from scratch with bookmarks. I'm considering Affinity for the PDF version for print functions, (TOC, index, and bleed), since Apple Pages doesn't have index or bleed, only TOC. So for the price of Affinity, this all sounds good, but then for ePub, I may copy the book back into Apple Pages for the Epub. I don't know what'll happen to the index. Perhaps some of the formatting will hold and I won't have to build the index in ePub from scratch. I use InDesign for covers, but haven't tried it for the book interior, and Affinity looks less complicated than InDesign, so I may give that a try. For $50, it's worth a try.
I've tried copying and pasting Affinity Publisher index markers in a variety of ways into a variety of applications, including Pages, with no success whatsoever. Not saying it can't be done, but so far it's beaten me...
Just a tip for you, LibreOffice can export directly to epub. If the output from the default export filter doesn't suit you, you can install the writer2html extension. You'll still need to tweak the css for some styles, but its output is rather clean
Thanks for that tip about the LibreOffice extension. I hope Affininty Publisher is soon updated to at least provide a means of exporting text and stories, so that the same content can be used in other programs.
It seems to me that DOCX is easily in no higher than fourth place world wide for digital books. PDF, MOBI and EPUB seem to be the clear winners for ebooks in front of DOCX. Making everyone convert to a lesser functioned ebook format before going into Logos doesn't seem to make good long-term sense.
I've gone "all-in" with Logos just recently in the last 3 months although I first tried it more than 8 years ago in seminary. I now absolutely love it. The UI has been greatly improved. The personal books area is the one where I feel it most needs to be brought up to current day standards...
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