Using Frame in the epub process

[Keith.Soltys at tmx.com]

> I’ve a 75,000 word story (fiction) which I’m trying to turn into an 
> ebook. I use Calibre (www.calibre-ebook.com) for my ebook library 
> management which will also convert files to epub. The problem I’m having 

> is figuring out how to get the file in the right format before I give it 

> to Calibre’s input Plugin which then converts the file to XHTML. Calibre 

> takes that XHTML and returns an epub and then converts that epub to 
> multiple ebook formats.
> 
> Can Frame create the XHTML? Should I be using structured Framemaker? Do 
> other people on this forum publish ebooks?
> 
> Thanks for your advice.

Just out of curiousity, I took a WebWorks ePublisher project which I'd 
used to create web-based help and added an ePub target to the project.

The result was very good - about 90 percent was fine. There were a few 
things that I'd have to fix, mostly involving tables, but I don't think it 
would take much work (hours, not days) to come up with a perfectly usuable 
ePub book.

A couple of caveats:

- I was working from a fairly clean, unstructured, FrameMaker book and a 
WebWorks template that has already undergone several releases and 
revisions. If you're not familiar with WebWorks, it might take some time 
to get to that point.

- I used the ePUBReaer add-in for Firefix to view the results. I don't 
have an eBook reader that will read ePub-format eBooks (I have a Kindle). 
So there might be issues that would be apparent on an eBook reader that I 
can't see in the PC version.

Still, it's pretty impressive performance for something that took me about 
5 minutes to set up and run.

Regards
Keith
--
Keith Soltys
Senior Technical Writer
Architecture
TMX Group
(416) 947-4397
http://www.tmx.com/



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