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Originally Posted by roger64
Hi
I am a Linux user, and I use mostly free software to produce EPUB (but not PDF...).
From LibreOffice I use a converter from odt to EPUB which produces very usable xhtml files (and a very correct EPUB2). I use Sigil to add any other features I wish.
The converter is writer2xhtml. It works well with OpenOffice, but you need a patched version for LibreOffice 4 and beyond because of a minor Java problem.
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Hi, Roger64: Do you know where that patch can be obtained? I've also been using writer2xhtml routinely, but since upgrading to LO ver 4+ I can't use it as an add-in. It does, however work very well as a stand-alone program to convert the .odt file to epub2 (or xhtml, for that matter, but I haven't needed to try that).
@skreutzer take note.
Using it stand-alone is very convenient, as it can be configured/customized to use our house styles, etc. It seems much faster run from the command line than the add-in used to be.
Hmmm, now that I think about it, I wonder if it could be configured to convert the "direct formatting" to our house character styles? I'll have to look into that. Completely automating that process would be playing with fire, though. Some of the conversions need the input from the "Mark-1 eyeball."
Albert