[LINK] RFI: Cross-Media Publishing under Linux/OO

[Ben McGinnes]

On 4/08/11 12:24 PM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> 
> Preparing MS powerpoint presentations, required by conference
> organisers, could be a problem...

I switched from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice a few months ago and it
(actually both of them) handles this fine.  Simply create the
presentation in the native OpenDocument Format and then save as or
export to whichever other formats are required (e.g. .ppt, .pptx,
.pdf, .swf, etc.).

> On the topic, of cross media publishing... I have just published my
> first e-book, for which you need XHTML. I am working on a paperback,
> using Open Office>PDF, from the XHTML source of the ebook. My Notes
> are here:
> <http://ramin.com.au/linux/formatting-e-books-and-paperbacks.shtml>

Again, OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice are your friends here.  There's
an extension called writer2epub which will convert a file to an ePub
file.  Make any adjustments to the chapters and index in Sigil, then
convert to alternate ebook formats (e.g. .mobi, .lit and so on) in
Calibre.

I think there might've been a thread on this on LINK a few months ago,
maybe late last year.

http://www.libreoffice.org/
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/Writer2ePub
https://code.google.com/p/sigil/
http://calibre-ebook.com/


Regards,
Ben

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