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Originally Posted by DVC
Sorry, to be so negative, but Caliber simply doesn't make eBooks than can be sold. So, I'm not sure why it was written. Converting LIT to EPUB. Why?
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I stumbled upon this thread, and am quite amused by the good DVCs... attitude. I think this quote sums it up pretty well.
Anyway, just wanted to say that I work at an academic publishing company, one of my tasks is creating epubs. It's not trivial but I've got a pretty streamlined workflow going now, of which Calibre is an integral part. It's basically source -> indesign template -> Export for ADE -> Calibre epub-epub and metadata -> final massaging by hand.
InDesign doesn't produce epubs that I would be comfortable selling, in fact its export is a joke, but Calibre certainly sets them straight. A big thanks to Kovid Goyal for the effort he's making, a donation is coming up as soon as my bosses approve
DVC: If your business is selling ebooks you should put in the effort to learn to make proper ones. Whining that "docx is not an input option"... I don't even know what to say to that one. You seem to lack basic understanding of the formats involved and their capabilities. Btw, (x)html is designed for reflowed reading on various screen sizes, and it's a very suitable base format for ebooks. It's also excellent for making books that don't look like web pages.
PDF is not a suitable source format, as someone said you'd probably be better off running them through finereader. Garbage in = garbage out. Some manual touchup afterwards is always necessary, for that you need to know basic css+xhtml, Sigil can probably be of assistance to you as well.
Anyway - good luck. Learn to see Calibre for the extremely valuable tool that it is. Divebombing on a forum is NOT the way to get help from people, in spite of that you have gotten valuable feedback from people in this very thread. I've found this forum to be an indispensable source of knowledge just by following discussions, and if you ask sensible questions in a nice way you'll probably get your problems sorted as well.