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From: "Keith J. Schultz" <schultzk@uni-trier.de>
To: lists@meahan.net, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: EPUB woes
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 17:00:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DFE0E30F-70A8-410A-AE3D-AC3EEC36ED27@uni-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52878C67.90007@meahan.net>

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.


Am 16.11.2013 um 16:16 schrieb Bill Meahan <subscribed_lists@meahan.net>:

> I have been trying for a very long time to generate an epub document via context without success.
> 
> I have followed the steps on the wiki to the letter, using the export-example file provided with the standalone distribution. A PDF generated from the file is exactly what I would expect from an example. The generated epub, however, is useless - all the text is jammed together into one continuous block with no formatting whatsoever.
> 
> Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 crashes trying to open it. Sumatra and Sigil get it open but the results are as described above. Obviously I am missing a step or doing something wrong but I cannot see what.
> 
> Context Standalone from a couple of days ago. Windows 7-64 (Home Premium) but I got the same results several months ago on a Linux system so I do not think it is OS-related.
> 
> Sign me, "Frustrated!"
> 
> -- 
> Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan
> 
>   “Writing is like getting married. One should never
>   commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”
> 
>                               —Iris Murdoch
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-16 16:00 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 [this message]
2013-11-16 16:51   ` Bill Meahan
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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