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Old 05-22-2022, 04:05 AM   #18
Gunivortus
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
Never use PDF as an input format.
PDF is designed as a final output/Print format.
Either go:
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Thanks a lot!
Reading your advices and those of the others, I do know now, that creating a proper ePub is not just a simple case of conversion. I've gone through many conversion tools and they all were disappointing. That was why I installed Sigil and since yesterday also the suggested plugins and PageEdit.

But first in the next time I'll dive in formatting with LibreOffice, which, admittedly, I always used as a kind of Notepad with some more functions. Thank you for the links to information about learning Styles.

Unfortunately, the DOCXImport plugin in Sigil ignores my test docx files, the only suggestion I found is that a "bundled Python Interpreter" is needed. I found a python.exe at my pc (running W11), but don't know whether that is the right one. So I looked at https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/ but which package is that bundled one?

All in all, I think, I've enough to work through for the whole coming summer. :-)

My wife already told me, I should use my time to write new articles and books and leave the rest to the publisher. Yet, they take my writings to sell, but do not accept the free eBooks I made and make now and then.
So, first I'll try to learn all those new stuff I am pointed to here, and only if I fail I may go again to smashwords.com and let them do al the conversion stuff.

Kind regards,
Gunivortus
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