Make an EPUB with pdflatex, imagemagick, pdftohtml and pkzip/zip ?

patrick295767 · 07-02-2016, 04:11 PM

Hello,

I would like to use sthg lighter than pandoc to create epubs.

Would you know possible methods to create an EPUB with using pdflatex, imagemagick, pdftohtml and pkzip/zip ?

thank you and best regards, and best reading,
Pat'

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business_kid · 07-03-2016, 10:42 AM

Sounds like too much work, & too many conversions. I am even unclear about the intended process: Latex --> PDF --> HTML --> EPUB?

From experience, if you want epub, stay away from pdf. Very few things handle the tricky side of epubs (e.g. internal links) and many can't get the basics right. I have linux, and want good epubs, but results were poor with current software, and particularly pdf.

patrick295767 · 07-03-2016, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

Sounds like too much work, & too many conversions. I am even unclear about the intended process: Latex --> PDF --> HTML --> EPUB?

From experience, if you want epub, stay away from pdf. Very few things handle the tricky side of epubs (e.g. internal links) and many can't get the basics right. I have linux, and want good epubs, but results were poor with current software, and particularly pdf.

Dont worry, I will code it in C to make it myself.

Here all infos about epub content:
http://www.jedisaber.com/eBooks/Tutorial.shtml

notKlaatu · 07-03-2016, 02:29 PM

Your workflow seems over-complex.

You can make an epub with a text editor (nearly any good editor will do) and an archiver (like zip or p7zip):

1. make your html files (the content)
2. make your XML (the table of contents and meta data)
3. make a mimetype definition

Once you have all that, zip your project up with 0 compression applied to the mimetype header:

Code:

zip -0Xq book.epub mimetype
zip -Xr9D book.epub META-INF/ OEBPS/

Done.

I have never bothered writing the XML myself (I have Docbook do that for me, or lately pandoc) but the tutorial you link to looks pretty spot on.

patrick295767 · 07-03-2016, 04:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by notKlaatu

Your workflow seems over-complex.
Done.

I have never bothered writing the XML myself (I have Docbook do that for me, or lately pandoc) but the tutorial you link to looks pretty spot on.

You can make an epub with a text editor (nearly any good editor will do) and an archiver (like zip or p7zip):

1. make your html files (the content)
2. make your XML (the table of contents and meta data)
3. make a mimetype definition

so far, I did as you mentioned with notepad to try. It works.

I got the IeX to PDF, then did htmltopdf and got an html. It works on a book just made with a lot lot of text.

My latex has:

Code:

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