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Old 03-18-2013, 01:41 AM   #1
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Hi, I recently published my first ebook on photography with the help of someone on the other side of the world who formatted the word document for me .
I would like to learn to do the conversion myself and was advised to use Sigl.
I have downloaded it and installed it on my Macbook pro but it crashes each time I try to open it. Any suggestions? [ I know nothing about converting to ebook format besides the fact that the guy helping me converted my file to mobi and epub ]
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Old 03-18-2013, 03:27 AM   #2
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What version of OSX you are trying to run it on? Version 10.6 and lower is not supported.
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Old 03-18-2013, 03:28 AM   #3
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What version of OSX you are trying to run it on? Version 10.6 and lower is not supported.
10.6.8 - doesn't sound good then
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Old 03-18-2013, 06:14 AM   #4
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Perhaps pdurrant will compile a new version for 10.6.8 again. He did it before in the past, but it is not supported.
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Old 03-18-2013, 06:31 AM   #5
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I had a little trouble compiling it with QT5 this time, and I haven't had time to sort out the problem yet.
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Old 03-18-2013, 02:04 PM   #6
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So what program would others suggest I use instead please?
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Old 03-18-2013, 02:30 PM   #7
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So what program would others suggest I use instead please?
an older version perhaps. A commercial program called Pages for the mac can create ePub files.

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an older version perhaps. A commercial program called Pages for the mac can create ePub files.

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Thanks, I'll look into that when I get home from work - 7:45 am in New Zealand now
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Old 03-18-2013, 08:42 PM   #9
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FYI, Qt 5's binary build is Apple Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” Cocoa 64-bit. I'm not sure if it can even be build for an older version of OS X.
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FYI, Qt 5's binary build is Apple Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” Cocoa 64-bit. I'm not sure if it can even be build for an older version of OS X.
Thanks for the info - looks like I might have to try Sigl on my desktop PC.
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I'm not ready to upgrade to Lion, so I'm running Sigil 0.6.1 with no problems on my Mac Mini (OSX 10.6.8). The older install files are fairly easy to find.

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I'm not ready to upgrade to Lion, so I'm running Sigil 0.6.1 with no problems on my Mac Mini (OSX 10.6.8). The older install files are fairly easy to find.

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Thanks very much, I'm busy downloading it now
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