From: Bill Meahan <subscribed_lists@meahan.net>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: EPUB woes
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:51:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5287A29B.6010302@meahan.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DFE0E30F-70A8-410A-AE3D-AC3EEC36ED27@uni-trier.de>
On 11/16/2013 11:00 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> Using a PDF as a basis for creating an Epub ebook is actually a lost cause.
> EPUB is a container format that just wraps around your PDF. I do not know of any
> ereader that can actually adjust the formatting/layout of a pdf in any significantly
> useful way. You are stuck with the formatting in the PDF.
>
> For a EPUB-ebook to adjust properly you need to use HTML5 and CSS. Producing PDF an sticking it into a
> EPUB or MOBI wrapper just does not make sense.
>
> regards
> Keith.
You are totally misreading what I wrote!
I know there is no direct PDF -> EPUB route and it's a fool's errand to
think there is. However, with appropriate headers, ConTeXt is supposed
to create either a PDF or and EPUB from a common source file marked up
for ConTeXt. Hence, if I run
wwm$ context <options> export-example.tex
I expect to get a PDF *but* if I run
wwm$ mtxrun --script epub --make export-example.tex <- the same
export-example.tex as above
I would /expect/ to get a valid EPUB file, or so I'm lead to believe.
At the moment, I'm simply trying it out using Hans' "export-example.tex"
file that comes as part of the standard ConTeXt distribution, either
Standalone or part of one of the other distributions. I haven't even
opened the export-example.tex file in an editor (yet) in this round of
trials and I've even run the script against it right in the ..../base/
directory where it is found in the distribution so I don't understand
why it is not producing a valid EPUB. Once I've got that sorted out, I
can try applying the lessons learned to my own documents.
--
Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan
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commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”
—Iris Murdoch
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-16 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-16 15:16 Bill Meahan
2013-11-16 16:00 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-11-16 16:51 ` Bill Meahan [this message]
2013-11-16 17:37 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-11-16 18:15 ` Bill Meahan
2013-11-18 9:00 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-11-18 12:21 ` Hans Hagen
2013-11-18 15:11 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-11-18 15:33 ` Hans Hagen
2013-11-18 18:12 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-11-19 21:39 ` Mica Semrick
2013-11-20 9:39 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-11-20 13:59 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-11-20 18:11 ` Bill Meahan
2013-11-20 19:43 ` Jan Tosovsky
2013-11-20 19:12 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-11-18 8:05 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-11-16 16:07 ` Wolfgang Schuster
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-11-15 18:58 Epub woes Bill Meahan
2012-11-15 19:24 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-11-15 20:20 ` Bill Meahan
2012-11-15 23:55 ` Marcin Borkowski
2012-11-16 0:13 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-11-16 0:48 ` Bill Meahan
2012-11-16 4:17 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-11-16 15:41 ` Bill Meahan
2012-11-16 16:36 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-11-16 6:49 ` Andy Thomas
2012-11-16 7:13 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-16 7:18 ` Andy Thomas
2012-11-16 23:18 ` Zenlima
2012-11-16 23:21 ` Zenlima
2012-11-16 23:41 ` Bill Meahan
2012-11-17 7:08 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-17 9:18 ` Alan BRASLAU
2012-11-17 16:48 ` Bill Meahan
2012-11-17 17:24 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-16 10:21 ` Keith J. Schultz
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