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Oh, that's sooo funny. and insulting. I can't tell you how many forums I would have been castigated for NOT searching every damn thread for my answers, taking many days to do so first. (which I HAVE done here. as well as read the manuals.)
So, if you saw my lame intro. you would know that I am a self-published author who is TRYING to create eBook versions of my novel for all these readers, that I do not have. BECAUSE I am POOR. So upgrading to something my MacBook Tiger will not support is NOT an option. (and that incudes the version of Page '09 that does do ePub conversions directly.)
And I posted in that thread, even if it is 'old' because I thought those posters might give me an answer with a little courtesy, before I started a NEW thread.
I AM using calibre, and Sigil, and Libreoffice, and a whole bunch of other new apps, new to me anyway, to try to do this correctly.
I have a shorter manuscript of my second book that I have been using to try out the calibre conversions. so far, none of them reproduce my test book correctly. the formatting for the main text body comes out almost all correctly, except for Chapter 2. where the first 10 paragraphs all get run together into one. also All the chapters do not get included in the TOC. and I do not get the Fonts used in the original.
and how do you include embedded fonts, images, etc.?
One site says put all your html files in one folder. and zip it. another says have them in separate folders, for CSS, images, fonts, then zip it. so which is it?
LibreOffice, converted my Word doc file into one html page with CSS included not separate.
To tell you the truth, I am totally confused with all these convert to Word doc, convert to html, convert to ePub, convert to mobi, convert to..... I started with Pages, and a perfectly formatted PDF, tuned up by Acrobat Pro. (yeah, I've seen all the warnings about how bad PDF is for converting.) but converted the Pages to different versions of doc txt rtf html and pdf and am working with those.
I said I was a noobi (to converting to eBooks), so hopefully those who choose to help or guide me would understand that I AM confused. but I do understand and can handcode html, CSS, etc. and have Dreamweaver MX. and a few other programs for editing besides the ones listed above.
If you do not want to help. Fine, but don't bother to insult me, please. or be condescending.
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