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I've come back to needing to generate epub files from LO Writer. My last experiences were around 2015/6 and I used the LO Writer extension, writer2xhtml (v1.5.2alpha). This worked fine.
Now, I see that the world has moved on. Writer's native epub export gives me a poor result. The writer2xhtml extension no longer appears to be maintained but I have tried the writer2xhtml.oxt file from both writer2latex 152alpha and 161 and the results with LO Writer 6.3.5.2 are disappointing. The file > export method using any of the writer2xhtml options on offer fails with a 'general input/output' error.
The only thing that does work is the 'publish epub' button on the writer2xhtml toolbar and that gives me an epub3 output without any way of selecting a name for the output file. The file produced needs some work but is not bad.
I imagine that something else is required for a Writer extension than just using the .oxt file from writer2latex.
I have read this thread and tried this ODTimport plugin v 0.3.2 to produce an epub file. The first thing I noticed was that it stole my first image to use as a cover image and then failed to use the same image in the correct place in the document. It also produced a couple of style sheets, styles.css and styles1.css.
Styles1.css contains some but not all of my Writer document styles I used and the output epub file contains a mixture of styles from each of the css files. I guess I can sort that out by using the various suggestions in this thread.
Is this plugin still a recommended way to produce an epub file from odt or has it become obsolete and been replaced by other different workflows and tools?
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