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Originally Posted by rocketdocs
What we found works best is to first convert it to PDF, then convert the PDF to HTML and then to EPUB. Converting to PDF first gets rid of all that junk Word outputs and gives you a better baseline to work with.
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Stating this, without qualification, in the calibre forum makes it sound as if you are advising this workflow using calibre which is really bad advice.
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Originally Posted by AlexBell
For what it is worth I design ebooks for Circaidy Gregory Press.
- I get the print version as a Word document,
- turn it into basic HTML documents (usually one per chapter) with Atlantis
- turn the documents into valid XHTML 1.1 documents by hand using an HTML editor - I have a standard CSS file which I modify as required.
- put the documents into an ePub template and edit the content.opf and toc.ncx files as required
- validate the resulting ePub file through FlightCrew and ePubCheck.
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Sound advice.