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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Most trade publishers normally get manuscripts as Word documents, edit, copy edit, and proofread those, then import the manuscript into Adobe InDesign for typesetting and markup. The output from Adobe is a PDF file which goes to the printer. The printer feeds the PDF to an imagesetter that creates the plates used to print the books. (Publishers used to use Quark Express for this step, but most have migrated to InDesign.
InDesign creates ePub files...badly. (Recent point releases are supposed to have improved this, but I haven't heard it's where it needs to be.)
Creating eBook files is currently a separate process outside of the normal publishing workflow, with attendant added costs and complexities. The ideal starting point would be well formed XML, but while the tools exist, they are not widely adopted.
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Dennis
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Calibre can create very good HTML file from PDFs.
I think once they setup the process to create eBooks, the rest will be very easy.