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Originally Posted by RWood
I too have made hundreds of IMP format ebooks with BookDesigner. Plus it is free. There is a sticky by Jon about how to download and install it. Great for making IMP books; but. there is no librarian included.
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I too have made eBooks with BD but I do not consider it to be nearly as good as other tools. It is much better than nothing and has the distinct advantage of being an almost universal tool for eBook creation. You can use the same source for eBooks in multiple formats which is great for publishing books here on mobileread but the imp creation does have limitations.
1. you cannot control the font size and it defaults to x-small/medium while eBook publisher defaults to small/large. I find x-small to be a little too small for reasonable reading.
2. It always make fully justified text eBooks and full width with no margins. This can be exactly what you want but I would like a couple pixels margin particularly on the right. Currently the letter r at the end of a line gets chopped a bit. I actually prefer left justified but that may just be me. It solves the problem of the r at the end of the line in 99% of the cases. I like fully justified when kerning is supported but none of the creation programs support kerning.
3. BD does support images and toc but it can be a bit tricky to get it to work right in all cases. You need to add the tag <a name="toc" /> in the source manually to get the jump to toc to work. But then you need to do this to eBook Publisher books as well.
Dale