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Old 04-06-2011, 08:06 AM   #9
yarndog
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The problem I have is that Smashwords only accepts .doc documents, meaning no epub. That is my struggle. They only thing I can come up with, based on my experimenting, is to open my document in Microsoft Word 2007, save it as a .docx document, then change the .docx extension to .zip, then unpack it, make the changes to the document.xml file in terms of picture names, border, and align attributes, just strip them out, then I have to find where the content.opf information is and add the dc:title, and dc:language metatags, then compress it back into a .zip, then change extension to .docx, then open in Microsoft Word 2007 and resave into .doc, and hope the changes took. Then upload to Smashwords. This is so convoluted. I did apply to Apple to be able to load books there directly. If they say yes then I am going that route because then i can just use epub straight away and that is much, much easier. Thanks for you info.
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