http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/indesign-to-kindle-conversion-guide/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/indesign-to-kindle-conversion-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-1145329 Felix Torres Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:54:39 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=28910#comment-1145329 If the target is Kindle, the best way to go about it is to skip Adobe-ware altogether: Just use MobiCreator or MobiPerl with your doc, rtf, oeb, or html file. Both produce excellent output and are free, to boot. Mobiperl in particular is a jewel; I used it to turn my entire PG library to mobi format with a single monster batch file and it did not glitch once in 14,000 conversions. If the target is Kindle, the best way to go about it is to skip Adobe-ware altogether: Just use MobiCreator or MobiPerl with your doc, rtf, oeb, or html file. Both produce excellent output and are free, to boot.
Mobiperl in particular is a jewel; I used it to turn my entire PG library to mobi format with a single monster batch file and it did not glitch once in 14,000 conversions.

]]> http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/indesign-to-kindle-conversion-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-1145315 Steve Jordan Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:44:20 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=28910#comment-1145315 Agreed: I tried it once, and never got through it. It was far easier to manually create the OEB from HTML pages created from pasted Word text, than to go through ID. And that's saying something. Agreed: I tried it once, and never got through it. It was far easier to manually create the OEB from HTML pages created from pasted Word text, than to go through ID. And that’s saying something.

]]> http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/indesign-to-kindle-conversion-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-1145299 Rich Adin Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:00:15 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=28910#comment-1145299 Sadly, Adobe has missed a vital step: How to get your InDesign document to EPUB. I know Adobe says to export from ID to EPUB (which is an option on the File menu), but the export doesn't work very well. It'd be so much better if Adobe spent less time writing white papers and more time fixing its export option. Sadly, Adobe has missed a vital step: How to get your InDesign document to EPUB. I know Adobe says to export from ID to EPUB (which is an option on the File menu), but the export doesn’t work very well. It’d be so much better if Adobe spent less time writing white papers and more time fixing its export option.

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