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Originally Posted by Quoth
A Comic?
Easiest of all. Screen shots or camera or scanner. Trivial.
FXL ePub purpose is to publish print replica via ebook retail. If it's for yourself a PDF with text etc is better. Works on everything.
Also Indesign looks expensive to me when you aren't selling 1000s of copies of what it produces. It's really a Paper DTP program fudged for epub, which is why it actually does fixed layout / print replica epub better than real reflowable epubs.
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Yes, it is on my list of projects to automate screen capture and create ebooks from that.
I would need to see how well calibre can convert these FXL things to PDF. I agree, there are many tool choices for PDF, probably better in the long run, and (for example) Python libraries for working with them. The one I have been looking at lately, PyMuPDF, also works with ePub, something I have not explored at all yet.
Apparently FXL derives from Apple's proprietary iBooks ePub extension. There was a pretty nice tool for creating those.
It's just weird there are no open source tools for generating FXL (say, from a PDF). I see there are companies you can pay to convert your PDF (with their proprietary tools).