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By cracking open a book in Sigil/calibre, you can often see a horrible mess of span tags containing font sizes/families and margins, bold/italics turned into yet more span tags, and worse stuff. Oftentimes each word/phrase in a paragraph will have the same styles individually applied to that word. Obviously, your mileage will vary depending on the book. And MS Word (used without styles) is the worst offender. But writer2epub for LibreOffice and Toxaris' addon for Word are supposed to occupy a sane middle ground between leaving in the cruft and going the Smashwords Nuclear Method then going in and reapplying the formatting. Really, it all depends on how clean your editing process is, I suppose. |
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Since I have become Mr. Linux and have been using Libreoffice I haven't noticed any styles there per se, but I just format the paragraph to .1 inches (would that be considered using a Style?) and then hit the enter key for a new paragraph (never the tab key). Again the .odt-turned-html seems to be very clean when I enter it in a text editor or Sigil. And I'm sure that has a lot to do with the fact that I'm writing very simple books too. I think I was wondering too with the window that comes up when you want to save from odt to html in LO. It's like 'you may lose data if you save in html.' But I never seem to lose anything. |
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And yes, keeping it uber simple. Thanks. |
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03-14-2014, 12:53 AM | #36 |
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this problem is UNSOLVABLE
Only a Linux maven would even read this problem. Only a Linux god would attempt to solve it. Only... (okay, that's enough, here's the problem already):
I've been trying to figure out this problem of glaring neon-like colors when I watch videos (see screenshot). I've tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the Adobe Flash player. I've tried upping the screen size by hitting F11 and then right clicking on the video, choosing "settings" and then hoping to uncheck "enable hardware acceleration" but it would not let me uncheck it. Someone helped me go into the nano editor and add EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=0 to the Adobe file. That didn't work either. My latest thought was to try to force install the latest Adobe Flash Player in the Synaptic Manager but then I got warnings that I might damage dependencies. Anybody have any suggestions on how I could overcome this issue? Thanks. Gregg (still on the nearly interminable adventure) p.s. Computer is Dell Optiplex 170L (32 bit) processor is Intel Pentium (R) 4CPU 2.80 GHz distro is Xubuntu 13.10 |
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The real problem may be that Adobe Flash is notoriously buggy, and they basically handed off linux development to Google. You can install Google Chrome for linux, which has better support than Firefox, or just follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/html5
HTML5 is in the process of replacing Adobe Flash on the web anyway, and about time too. Not sure what to do about fixing Flash Player (although I may see something once I put effort into it), but this is a potential good workaround. Last edited by eschwartz; 03-14-2014 at 02:03 AM. |
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My first thought was that it would be your video drivers. A quick search in Google turned up this, which "looks" a lot like your problem. If, and only if, you have an Intel graphics card, you might try this. Bear i mind that updating drivers can be risky and do a complete back-up before you try.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/33512...hed-and-broken |
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Or video drivers are a definite probability too.
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Chromium does not include Google's (Pepper) Flash Player, but there is a google-chrome.deb installer for Ubuntu, at https://www.google.com/chrome. It should automatically add Google's package archive to your Software Sources for updating.
"seems to be a converter as well as a player"? Never heard of that, as far as I'm aware it is just the beta for the next-generation Youtube look. You may want to take a look at this Firefox plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ube-all-html5/ which seems to offer a better way to enable Youtube HTML5 than merely opting in. And here's a link to get you started on backups: Howto: Backup and restore your system! |
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I've got video!
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Ha ha. I typed the above line about twenty minutes ago. I had added the html5 player and tried the video. Same problem. So I Googled how to GET RID OF the add-on. In the process of getting rid of it (and I was baffled why it would not work) I decided to look at the "preferences." Well, (see screenshot) I saw this (it was unchecked) and thought, Why would I want to keep the malfunctioning Adobe Flash? And so I checked it. Voila! Video. I didn't know this html 5 player existed (no one suggested it in any of the forums I asked about this problem: Ubuntu Forum, Superuser Forum, Linux Questions Forum, Ubuntu One Forum), so obviously you must be some sort of genius. LOL The html 5 player says it only works on Youtube but hell, what videos are not through Youtube. If I have problems with watching certain videos with this I can always have Chrome as my backup. (But I don't anticipate problems--I've already checked out Youtube and a Linux Terminal tutorial video,which is going to be the first thing I watch! Thanks a lot for the links. Will definitely get started backing stuff up. Thanks so much! |
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That's good to hear it worked! So it must not have been a problem with your drivers, just Adobe Flash acting up, huh?
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The tutorials are awesome. The videos really help. It's so much easiser to see what somebody's doing, rather than read about it. I like to have the written stuff as a base though and for referring to. |
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