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Originally Posted by PlasticFlaneur
I apologize in advance if this is a stupid idea. Also, I use a Mac so I have no idea how this could be implemented on multiple OSes. Anyway, save as pdf is a function available via the print menu on most Macs. Could a "save as ebook" (save as epub?, Print to epub?) be implemented as a system-wide service/function?
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It's a great idea that unfortunately is not really implementable.
The problem is that save as pdf works because most applications are designed to be able to print things, and most of them (especially on a mac) print things by generating postscript. That postscript can be directly translated to PDF.
epub ebooks, however, are generated from html, and very few applications have a "print to html" or "save as html" option. LibreOffice does, and probably some other office apps do, but then, some of those have save to epub already.
So in order to implement this idea, we'd have to start from something apps already export, and then translate it to html and then to epub. If what they export isn't close to html, the results won't be great. And you could get the same results by exporting as html or whatever it can export as, and then import it into calibre and convert...