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Old 01-30-2013, 11:07 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by jackibar View Post
Thanks for the tip - yes, Pages will export to pretty much any format - Word, ePub, PDF, RTF, and plain text... I saved as RTF and tried pulling that straight into Sigil, but it was way too messy and didn't maintain the bold and italics...

I hadn't heard of the other resources you mentioned, so I'll give that a try... If all else fails, I can always do the search/replace method - was just wondering if there was a more automated way of getting this done!
When you say you "saved as RTF, and tried pulling that straight into Sigil," I assume that you exported the HTML first? I mean, rather than cut-and-paste into BV? I've had good luck with RTF's, overall, and I am 99% sure that I've used the Mini-Mac sitting on my desk to export a Pages file to doc/RTF and kept the individual text formatting, so I'm surprised to read you say that.

I've also been surprised at how clean an exported ePUB was from a very simple Pages document I was sent (as an experiment). It was poetry, and while the output was far from perfect, it would have been super-fast to regex it and have the book done and dusted. I didn't see anything untoward about the ePUB, given that it came from what is basically a word-processor. I think the output for clean-up is six of one, half-dozen of another, considering it will have to be cleaned either as HTML or XHTML. {shrug}. Just my $.02.

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