[LINK] ICT Sustainability Course Notes and e-Publishing Formats for Education

[Tom Worthington]

On 22/08/11 11:04, John Hilvert wrote:
> For ePub/Kindle publishing I've heard good things about
> http://www.jutoh.com/

Thanks. I downloaded the demo version of Jutoh. This also required me to 
download Amazon's KindleGen software for creating Kindle e-books 
(although I have found Amazon's on-line tools work okay): 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000234621

After installing the Linux version of Jutoh, I pointed it at a folder 
containing the file from an IMS Content Package generated by Moodle, 
containing the chapters of my book in XHTML format. This is similar to 
the same HTML I use for the web version: 
http://www.tomw.net.au/ict_sustainability/

Jutoh extracted the HTML and created an e-book in a few seconds. The 
chapters were not in the correct order (the ISM table of contents is an 
XML file which Jutoh seems to have ignored). There were 22 errors with 
the HTML reported. This was disappointing as I assumed the application 
would fix the HTML.

Also I tried using my LibreOffice file as a source document. But Jutoh 
did not recognize the ODM master document format. So then I tried the 
HTML print file generated by Moodle. This had the problem that Moodle 
does not using a HTML heading tag to identify chapters, but a class. I 
could not see any way to get Jutoh to recognize this and one of my 
attempts too more than ten minutes to process.

It seems that the software is designed to create an e-book in only one 
format. So while you can use the same source documents, you need to 
compile the book separately for each format (ePUB, Kindle and the like). 
After generating the EPUB, I tried switching to Mobi, but this seemed to 
confuse the software.

Jutoh, does not seem to work significantly better than the other tools I 
have tried. Given Jutoh costs money and the other tools don't, I did not 
think it worth persisting with.


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