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anamardoll · 03-10-2012, 10:31 PM

*sigh*

I hired 52 Novels (i.e., The Folks Who Do Konrath's Books) to create a Smashwords-compatible doc file of my ePUB because I knew the meatgrinder would be a nightmare. I was happy to pay professionals, but not surprised when even they couldn't promise 1-to-1 perfect of my original ePUB against the Smashwords attempt.

This is now the 5th upload attempt and it's still not working perfectly.

I was NOT pleased to note that Smashwords does the "cut a new chapter any time I see the word CHAPTER because that's a great freaking idea!" slice and dice, which meant that while before I had a nice little set up of:

[PICTURE]
Chapter 1 - Rosella
Blah, blah, blah...

Now, I have to do:

Chapter 1 - Rosella
[PICTURE]
Blah, blah, blah...

Yeah, that's a little thing, but it hurts my artistic soul. And Now Smashwords is having angst over the TOC -- the chapters all render perfectly in scroll-view, but the first and last section are switched in the TOC (ETA: but only in Calibre, but not in Sigil? WHAT.) and I can't figure out why, so I'll have to poke my poor beleaguered 52 Novels guy again.

WHY. WHY ARE WE CREATING EPUBS FROM WORD DOCS? THAT IS SO BLOODY STUPID.

Just had to get that off my chest.

03-10-2012, 10:31 PM	#1
anamardoll Chasing Butterflies Posts: 3,132 Karma: 5074169 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: American Southwest Device: Uses batteries.	Meatgrinder (Smashwords) Venting sigh I hired 52 Novels (i.e., The Folks Who Do Konrath's Books) to create a Smashwords-compatible doc file of my ePUB because I knew the meatgrinder would be a nightmare. I was happy to pay professionals, but not surprised when even they couldn't promise 1-to-1 perfect of my original ePUB against the Smashwords attempt. This is now the 5th upload attempt and it's still not working perfectly. I was NOT pleased to note that Smashwords does the "cut a new chapter any time I see the word CHAPTER because that's a great freaking idea!" slice and dice, which meant that while before I had a nice little set up of: [PICTURE] Chapter 1 - Rosella Blah, blah, blah... Now, I have to do: Chapter 1 - Rosella [PICTURE] Blah, blah, blah... Yeah, that's a little thing, but it hurts my artistic soul. And Now Smashwords is having angst over the TOC -- the chapters all render perfectly in scroll-view, but the first and last section are switched in the TOC (ETA: but only in Calibre, but not in Sigil? WHAT.) and I can't figure out why, so I'll have to poke my poor beleaguered 52 Novels guy again. WHY. WHY ARE WE CREATING EPUBS FROM WORD DOCS? THAT IS SO BLOODY STUPID. Just had to get that off my chest. Last edited by anamardoll; 03-10-2012 at 10:36 PM.