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romeok · 09-04-2009, 09:15 PM

Hi all,

Thanks for trying the plugin and for the feedback. I will try to answer all questions I've seen so far:

1. Personal info and registration. I don't understand what the fuss is about. It is an acceptable practice to require registration, especially for something free. If you don't like providing useful info, don't. You will still get the download. Our company's focus is components for .NET and Java developers and a simple registration is required to access downloads and reply in the forums. We have created this free plug-in based on one of our products and made it available for public use. We do not particularly need information about plugin users, I'd say it will just be an extra cost for us to change the existing website.

2. ADE means Adobe Digital Editions I presume. Yes, EPUB created by Aspose.Words for Microsoft Word reads in ADE well. It is the first on the list of products that we test with.

3. Word 2007 to HTML or Word 2003 to HTML. The answer is neither. Aspose.Words is itself a file conversion engine. In this particular case the flow is MS Word saves DOCX (OOXML), Aspose.Words reads it and converts to EPUB itself. So it is not MS Word to HTML conversion. Our main commercial product is the component for software developers Aspose.Words for .NET and Aspose.Words for Java that offers much more. Conversion to EPUB is just one small feature that we thought would be cool to make into a free add-in for MS Word.

4. Edit Metadata. Aspose.Words converts document properties into EPUB metadata. So if you go into document properties in MS Word and specify title, keywords, author etc, you will get that in the EPUB output.

5. calibre_bookmarks.txt embedded in EPUB. Sorry no idea what you are talking about. Aspose.Words is completely our own code in all its features and does not use any third party libraries. So we do not give credit to anyone.

6. CSS in HTML. This MS Word to EPUB export in Aspose.Words for Microsoft Word is based on the capability of Aspose.Words for .NET to convert various documents to HTML/MHTML and EPUB. There is a number of options are supported in the actual component (that is for software developers) including different ways of saving CSS. There is an option to save inline CSS like you've seen above (default). There is an option to save using a CSS stylesheet that is embedded in the file and also into external CSS stylesheet (although in EPUB I think it will always be internal). You do not get these options in Aspose.Words for Microsoft Word because it is just V1.0 and we are interested in seeing any feedback. If you feel that EPUB generated by Aspose.Words can be improved, feel free to suggest what do you want to see.

I just want to reiterate that Aspose is a company that develops components for .NET and Java developers. This Aspose.Words for Microsoft Word is a free product based on one of our components Aspose.Words for .NET. We are interested in improving EPUB conversion (as well as all other features) and felt that making it available for public to use in different scenarios will help us get constructive feedback.

BTW Aspose.Words for .NET is also the engine that is used by Adobe Buzzword to convert documents to EPUB.

09-04-2009, 09:15 PM	#15
romeok Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 120 Join Date: May 2009 Device: none	Hi all, Thanks for trying the plugin and for the feedback. I will try to answer all questions I've seen so far: 1. Personal info and registration. I don't understand what the fuss is about. It is an acceptable practice to require registration, especially for something free. If you don't like providing useful info, don't. You will still get the download. Our company's focus is components for .NET and Java developers and a simple registration is required to access downloads and reply in the forums. We have created this free plug-in based on one of our products and made it available for public use. We do not particularly need information about plugin users, I'd say it will just be an extra cost for us to change the existing website. 2. ADE means Adobe Digital Editions I presume. Yes, EPUB created by Aspose.Words for Microsoft Word reads in ADE well. It is the first on the list of products that we test with. 3. Word 2007 to HTML or Word 2003 to HTML. The answer is neither. Aspose.Words is itself a file conversion engine. In this particular case the flow is MS Word saves DOCX (OOXML), Aspose.Words reads it and converts to EPUB itself. So it is not MS Word to HTML conversion. Our main commercial product is the component for software developers Aspose.Words for .NET and Aspose.Words for Java that offers much more. Conversion to EPUB is just one small feature that we thought would be cool to make into a free add-in for MS Word. 4. Edit Metadata. Aspose.Words converts document properties into EPUB metadata. So if you go into document properties in MS Word and specify title, keywords, author etc, you will get that in the EPUB output. 5. calibre_bookmarks.txt embedded in EPUB. Sorry no idea what you are talking about. Aspose.Words is completely our own code in all its features and does not use any third party libraries. So we do not give credit to anyone. 6. CSS in HTML. This MS Word to EPUB export in Aspose.Words for Microsoft Word is based on the capability of Aspose.Words for .NET to convert various documents to HTML/MHTML and EPUB. There is a number of options are supported in the actual component (that is for software developers) including different ways of saving CSS. There is an option to save inline CSS like you've seen above (default). There is an option to save using a CSS stylesheet that is embedded in the file and also into external CSS stylesheet (although in EPUB I think it will always be internal). You do not get these options in Aspose.Words for Microsoft Word because it is just V1.0 and we are interested in seeing any feedback. If you feel that EPUB generated by Aspose.Words can be improved, feel free to suggest what do you want to see. I just want to reiterate that Aspose is a company that develops components for .NET and Java developers. This Aspose.Words for Microsoft Word is a free product based on one of our components Aspose.Words for .NET. We are interested in improving EPUB conversion (as well as all other features) and felt that making it available for public to use in different scenarios will help us get constructive feedback. BTW Aspose.Words for .NET is also the engine that is used by Adobe Buzzword to convert documents to EPUB.