ePub creation for iBooks

Your message was very interesting.  So I immediately downloaded and tried
Atlantis.  I opened an rtf file and then tried to save it as epub.  But the
program does not offer epub as an option.  The only "save as" choices are:
rtf, doc, docx, encrypted documents (cod), and txt.

What did you do to get epub as a choice?  Is there some setting I need to
change?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes.

Richard

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Subject: Re: [ebook-community] ePub creation for iBooks


If you are on Windows you might want to look at the Atlantis word
processor.
http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/

I have found that I can open a clean rtf file in Atlantis and save it as
epub. Every book I have done this with has passed the validation without
a single glitch.

There is a 30 day free trial which is NOT crippleware, it just goes away
after the 30 days. Cost to keep it is just $35 US.

It doesn't have the collaboration features the more expensive word
processors have but since it reads rtf and has a good styles setup this
isn't a problem for me.

Now, by a clean rtf file I mean one that I've saved as rtf from Word,
WordPerfect, or OpenOffice. The styles translate well. I use just a few
styles and don't use tables or wrapping text around a graphic. Since none
of the ebook formats I am familiar with allow either this works out well.

Hope this helps.

Margaret I. Carr
epress-online, inc.



On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:02:56 -0000 "fynydd_beirdd" <[email protected]>
writes:
> I'm curious how many (if any) people here are having success
> formatting
> and creating ePub books that are acceptable for Apple aggregators.
>
> I'm struggling with consistently getting my ePub ebooks to meet the
> 1.0.5 standards.  Yes, I know I can go to a service and have them do
> it
> but I'd really like to be able to do it myself if possible, as I
> have a
> number of titles.  Money is not flowing freely.
>
> Any ideas?  I've read a couple of blog posts on the issue, but they
> seem
> to be written for someone who is eager to delve into the guts of
> the
> epub document and make all sorts of changes using VI.  I've used
> the
> 1.0.5 validator, and it gives me error messages and tells me that
> there
> are things wrong, but I have had a difficult time understanding (1)
> what
> the messages mean and (2) how to fix the problems.
>
> Tony
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