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As a minor aside, the pdf conversions can be often fixed in by converting to word and using various replacements; i.e. modify the line breaks, either paragraph marks ( ^p in Word ) or end-of-line marks ( ^l in Word ).
I've added a commen conversion pattern below but youll almost definitely need to change it - the trick is to differentiate between a paragraph return and a 'false' return. convert ^p^p^p to ^p^p convert ^p^p to @@@@@@ convert ."^p to ."###### ?"^p to ?"###### !"^p to !"###### .^p to .###### .)^p to .)###### remove all ^p - may have to replace with a space, depends on doc (can crash a lot here) convert ###### to ^p convert @@@@@@ to ^p^p Conversion rules vary by file but you can end up turning any weirdly formatted Gutenburg text into a properly formatted epub in a few steps without having to resort to much manual typing. Apologies if this is old news to you. |
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Thanks all. As I have advanced knowledge of html, and Jswolf pointed me to Sigil, editing epub books won't be difficult for me. If I am going to read one of the classics or PD book and it could be formatted better, I'll see what I can do.
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Hi,
I am a bit confused here and need some advice, I have a word dokument and want to use Sigil and Calibre to, Should i convert it to a pdf or?? |
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Hi,
I am a bit confused here and need some advice, I have a word dokument and want to use Sigil and Calibre to, Should i convert it to a pdf or?? |
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Convert it to EPUB using Calibre, then edit the EPUB using Sigil.
Just hope that the EPUB will be understandable with regard to editing; it's impossible to say what Calibre will do while converting. It depends on the Word document. In this post I blatantly assume that Calibre can convert Word files. If it can't, then first save the Word document as a PDF (using a PDF printer for example), and then convert the PDF to EPUB. |
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Calibre should be able to handle Word/RTF documents directly, but if you want to fine-tune things, then export as filtered HTML from Word and then run the conversion. |
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if it's a word document, save it as filtered web (HTML), and then convert.
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Do not hold your breath. Many of them are good; the absolute worst ebook I have ever seen was a fairly expensive one published by Amazon. I tried to give it a minus 10 in the rating
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NEVER use PDF as a conversion format unless you have absolutely no alternative. PDF files do not store text, and conversion from PDF is "problematic" to put it mildly. |
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BeccaPrice's suggestion is indeed better. I forgot that Word can store files as Html.... I haven't used this program for a long time.
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