[pmwiki-users] .epub cookbook

Steve Glover steve.glover at ed.ac.uk
Wed Jan 26 10:38:08 CST 2011


On 26/01/11 16:27, Ben Wilson wrote:
> Next time you have an epub handy, copy it and rename it to .zip. Then,
> unzip it... an Epub is essentially a zipped web site.

Ah!

> I have a Ruby script that makes the conversion, but the process is
> fairly straight forward. Perhaps I should make a recipe. :-)

So does that mean that if we had a page template that excluded all the 
extraneous chrome, such as menu bars, navigation and logos - rather like 
the action=print version of the template, in fact - we could start with 
a list of pages and it would "just work"?

Brilliant!

> Then I could write my next novel in PmWiki, as a few of us did a mock
> encyclopedia.

Sounds like fun. Is there a URL, please?

Cheers

Steve

> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Peter Bowers<pbowers at pobox.com>  wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Sterling Ledet<sjledet at ledet.com>  wrote:
>>> Does anyone know of a cookbook for publishing to .epub similar to the one
>>> that creates .pdf?
>>
>> You might try using the PublishPDF recipe and then use something like this:
>>
>> http://www.pdftoepub.com/default.asp
>>
>> (Looks like they have a special to get it free if you download it
>> before the end of January)
>>
>> -Peter
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