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Old 06-06-2011, 12:41 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by jbcohen View Post
Here is what friends of mine that self publish books do: They have downloaded and installed Calibre and Open Office (oppenoffice.org). They write the book in MS Word format then use Open Office to translate it to PDF, they then use Calibre to translate the PDF to Amazon's native format as well as several different langueges including: Spanish, German and Chineese. Frequently they will also translate the book to epub format as well. They will then post the results on Homestead.
You should never, EVER convert from PDF format to anything else - the results are horrible. Why on Earth are your friends doing something as strange as that? If they have Open Office, they can save their book as HTML which will convert beautifully to any other format.
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