04-11-2019, 07:19 AM | #16 | |
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Atlantis-Word-Processor is a much better wordprocessor and is able to produce epubs as well as the kindle-format; it deals with *.doc, *.docx and *.rtf - so who needs MS-Word!? |
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04-11-2019, 08:12 AM | #17 |
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"is able to produce epubs" is not a very valid argument in, and of, itself. IIRC Atlantis' coding is one of the worst not very good either....
You still need to be able to understand basic coding.... |
04-11-2019, 08:16 AM | #18 |
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Those who have used for it decades and have no need or desire to retool technologically or habitually?
Writers often have habits developed over years. Expecting them to make wholesale changes to their process is neither practical nor necessary most times. Word can be used to produce quite lovely ebooks with a little bit of care. Last edited by DiapDealer; 04-11-2019 at 12:20 PM. |
04-11-2019, 09:25 AM | #19 |
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I'm overjoyed when I get a source file from any word processor. But why send me an easy conversion job like that? I get the scans and the PDFs...
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04-11-2019, 09:29 AM | #20 | |
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I'm always astounded by folks (not directed at Kiruhdu, btw) who pontificate about the awfulness of Word. "Oh, it produces crap HTML," "it fills files with cruft," etc. Good God, it's not unique to Word. All programs of all types that have added functionality, whether it's AWP or OO or LO, add cruft. It's hardly unique to, or the worst in, Word. Hitch |
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04-11-2019, 12:52 PM | #21 |
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Although the cruft in some EPUB conversions is irritating, I've given up worrying about 'good code', I'll settle for 'code that works'. So, unless it noticeably slows a reader down, the cruft can stay.
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04-11-2019, 02:22 PM | #22 | |
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Not one in 100, quite LITERALLY. Why wouldn't that person send those files to us? To make a remotely-decent ebook file, at the very least, you need to have used styles and headings. If they don't know what those are, and have zero interest in learning, where would you expect them to send it? Hitch |
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04-11-2019, 04:42 PM | #23 | |
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I spent a LONG time cleaning out the cruft on one of those...obviously created using one of those word processors that is supposed to "just make it work" ... and I ran out of patience. Now, I'm the kind of guy that will spend hours trying to figure out the right regex for something that I could have manually accomplished in a couple of minutes... so for me to give up on that is saying quite a bit. That author obviously had no clue what his code looked like...as long as it looked ok in his program he was happy... but the result was that I can't/won't buy any other books from him because it was so bad. Imagine the customers out there that don't have the html/css experience of those on MR - they would either never buy from that author again, leave a bad rating, report the deficiencies to Amazon, or maybe all the above! If I was an author, that would be a risk I'd rather not take. Much easier to have basic understanding of what is needed to make a good product...that is what professionals are supposed to do. |
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04-11-2019, 04:55 PM | #24 | |
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04-11-2019, 05:12 PM | #25 |
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Well yes, if you notice the slow-down BEFORE looking at the code, that's a good reason to go cruft-hunting.
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04-11-2019, 07:32 PM | #26 |
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Or the person who sends you a pdf generated from a Word file to make it easier for you since it is already in an ebook format.
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04-11-2019, 07:39 PM | #27 | |
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Whenever I get a book with *.rtl, *.doc or *.docx I use AWP to produce an epub and for my understanding the code it produce is easy but fine... Sometimes it needs a minimal overwork in Sigil; and on my reding-devices it get handled with no problems. Could you please a bit more specific on 'Atlantis' coding is one of the worst not very good either...'? |
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04-11-2019, 07:42 PM | #28 | |
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Caveat: i think that'll only be true for Word 2013 or later. BR |
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04-11-2019, 07:50 PM | #29 |
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The file was created using the CutePDF print to pdf utility according to the embedded information. Acrobat did a pretty decent job of converting it back to a Word document but still artifacts that had to be manually cleaned up.
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04-11-2019, 07:56 PM | #30 | |
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So I have changed my software - regardless of my personal habits - and in the long run, i don't regret this. |
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