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Old 03-10-2011, 10:51 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by dwanthny View Post
I guess I misunderstood, I don't run from command line, but I thought he was converting directly to multiple formats in a single command line argument. From your statement I guess it is a series of individual and separate command line arguments, one for each format combined in a single script or batch file.

Still the option to accomplish a single book conversion to multiple formats automatically in succession is not a option the GUI currently supports.
Not that I can find.

Yes, I have a series of batch files which export each ebook from yWriter into html, then runs the html through four Calibre conversion processes to generate mobi/epub/rtf files plus another epub formatted for a larger screen size.

Then it runs three more sets of batch files, one for each novel in the series.

I use variables in the actual conversion batch files so I can use the same code for all four books. Only the input file and publication details (and cover image) change from one to the next.

I'm a programmer (I wrote yWriter, the novel-writing software), so when it comes to automating things I'll reach for the commandline once I realise it's a task I need to do often.
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