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Comment on How to make an ebook CSS shortcut by Ian S. Rutter

Ian S. Rutter — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:08:13 +0000

Hello Yo
It’s my pleasure. Thank you for commenting. I’m very happy that it has helped. I have sadly neglected this blog as I have been helping so many people and writing the sequel to my own book. I should be getting back to it soon.
Again, I am very happy it has helped. You have proved a point that the tutorials are not just for books but, and in your case, summaries of study notes.
Excellent usage.
Have fun!

Comment on How to make an ebook CSS shortcut by yo

yo — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:17:53 +0000

Hi
I’m a student, I don’t write books or anything, but your ebook tutorials were super helpful cos I can now create summaries for my kindle in mobi instead of in pdf form. Just wanna thank you cos this was super helpful.

Comment on How to use Calibre by Ian S. Rutter

Ian S. Rutter — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:26:03 +0000

The good news is yes, Calibre can convert PDF. The bad news is that the results can be up in the air. The reason for this is that PDF are the worse files to convert from.
The problem is they are a fixed page size and text placement format. Meaning, it is very difficult to determine where one paragraph ends and another begins.
Calibre can try to fix this by unwrapping the paragraphs.

Taken from Calibre’s manual it states:
Some limitations of PDF input are:

Complex, multi-column, and image based documents are not supported.
Extraction of vector images and tables from within the document is also not supported.
Some PDFs use special glyphs to represent ll or ff or fi, etc. Conversion of these may or may not work depending on just how they are represented internally in the PDF.
Links and Tables of Contents are not supported
PDFs that use embedded non-unicode fonts to represent non-English characters will result in garbled output for those characters
Some PDFs are made up of photographs of the page with OCRed text behind them. In such cases calibre uses the OCRed text, which can be very different from what you see when you view the PDF file

To re-iterate PDF is a really, really bad format to use as input. If you absolutely must use PDF, then be prepared for an output ranging anywhere from decent to unusable, depending on the input PDF.

One good method would be to highlight all the text on the PDF and copy it into MS Word then save as a HTML. Then Let Calibre convert that HTML to an ebook.

If you have no idea don’t worry maybe if you sent me one pdf then I could send you the result.
Try it. find out how it works and let me know how you got on.
Kind regards
Ian
Update. Just remembered. You can go here – Zamzar.com. It is an online converter. Try it out and see how it works. Very easy.

Comment on How to use Calibre by Ian

Ian — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:17:01 +0000

You’re very welcome.
If you need any advice on how to do it then don’t hesitate to contact me. I’m here to help.

Comment on How to use Calibre by Greg Clouthier

Greg Clouthier — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 04:43:14 +0000

I would love to transfer my books on other e-book sites like Nook, Ipad etc. However my documents are all on PDF files. Any suggestions on how to transfer my work?

Thank you,

Greg Clouthier
clouthierpi@sbcglobal.net

Comment on How to use Calibre by Philippa Rees

Philippa Rees — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:28:58 +0000

Thanks for reassurances Ian. It is time I mastered ebook creation. Really appreciate your generous help. Philippa

Comment on How to use Calibre by Ian S. Rutter

Ian S. Rutter — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 03:20:12 +0000

Hello Philippa
I have installed it on many computers either new installation or an upgrade. I have so far no problems.
If you go to Calibre’s website and click on the link About Calibre then choose Press the software has had some very good reviews. Those reviews would probably of flagged something.
No piece of software is bug free and they do appreciate being told of any if found.
Malware. The legion of fans would definitely defend the software as Malware free.
Originally Calibre was my second choice. I wanted to use Mobiebook Creator but I could never get it to work, so I chose Calibre and have no problems at all.
Thanks for the comments.

Comment on How to use Calibre by Philippa Rees

Philippa Rees — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:12:19 +0000

A very generous walk through. Sounds great. Totally safe from bugs and malware? Sounds too easy to believe!

Comment on Inspiring Blog Award by Allan Krummenacker

Allan Krummenacker — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:13:28 +0000

You’re welcome. You’ve been a big help to me in deciding where to go next if things don’t work out with the agent who’s looking over my MS. Take care.

Comment on How to make an ebook CSS shortcut by Ian S. Rutter

Ian S. Rutter — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:54:31 +0000

Hello
Thank you so much for this. I’ve been out of it lately. Have been privately tutoring some authors which has taken a lot of my time.
It can be a mine field but the results show that once one has grasped the skill it’s makes a great deal of difference.
Have been looking at Smashwords and they aim to have in place by the end of this year a system that you can upload ePub files directly. Why not sooner I don’t know but that will be great when it happens.
I really don’t like the system they have now with uploading a doc file.
Happy blogging, thanks for your link. Keep intouch.
Next I am working on Calibre ebook management software.
How to use it to turn the hard work of adding HTML to your manuscript and produce an great ePub or MOBI ebook.

Once again, thank you so much.
Ian