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Mneme · 09-29-2009, 08:31 AM

I have finally got around to trying the OpenOffice plug-in. It works very well and is now my favourite tool for conversion to fb2 format.
It installs in English (sort of, I think they used google to translate the text). I found the Help file not helpful in getting started, there's too much unnecessary technical detail and my eyes glazed over on page 2

It might describe the plug-in's capabilities in detail and might be interesting to developers, but I really don't need to know or particularly care ...

Basically what I did was the following:

Installed the plug-in via OO Extension manager
Opened the ExportToFB21_Test-1 document that comes with the plug-in and saved it as a styles template

Now when I have a text I want to convert to fb2 all I do is:

save it as OO document (whatever.odt)
run the OOFBTools Text corrector ( I've played around with the options and pretty much use all of them except the first box - removing breaks for hyphens - and collecting lines of paragraph broken by symbol)

After the clean-up I search and replace chapter name formatting. I load the formatting styles from the saved template. I like to have a TOC and proper chapter navigation in the file, so I replace whatever format was used for chapter names by a style called Level 1 from the template.

That's pretty much all. I then export it to fb2 and to make sure the file validates I fill in the following:

book title
language
book author
genre

Using the plug-in for conversion is really easy and takes about one tenth of the time it took me to convert a file when I was using Book Designer.

Many thanks to the developer.

09-29-2009, 08:31 AM	#14
Mneme Serial Procrastinator Posts: 25 Karma: 356 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: in the real world Device: Asus MyPal A636, Hanlin V5	I have finally got around to trying the OpenOffice plug-in. It works very well and is now my favourite tool for conversion to fb2 format. It installs in English (sort of, I think they used google to translate the text). I found the Help file not helpful in getting started, there's too much unnecessary technical detail and my eyes glazed over on page 2 It might describe the plug-in's capabilities in detail and might be interesting to developers, but I really don't need to know or particularly care ... Basically what I did was the following: Installed the plug-in via OO Extension manager Opened the ExportToFB21_Test-1 document that comes with the plug-in and saved it as a styles template Now when I have a text I want to convert to fb2 all I do is: save it as OO document (whatever.odt) run the OOFBTools Text corrector ( I've played around with the options and pretty much use all of them except the first box - removing breaks for hyphens - and collecting lines of paragraph broken by symbol) After the clean-up I search and replace chapter name formatting. I load the formatting styles from the saved template. I like to have a TOC and proper chapter navigation in the file, so I replace whatever format was used for chapter names by a style called Level 1 from the template. That's pretty much all. I then export it to fb2 and to make sure the file validates I fill in the following: book title language book author genre Using the plug-in for conversion is really easy and takes about one tenth of the time it took me to convert a file when I was using Book Designer. Many thanks to the developer.