Comments on: The legend of Atlantis

By: awp

awp — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:52:04 +0000

Hi,

Just wanted to let you know that a number of things have been improved in the “Save as EPUB” feature of Atlantis Word Processor. You can find the details in the Atlantis Word Processor Blog:

http://atlantiswordprocessor.blogspot.com/search/label/eBook

or in the dedicated thread of the MobileRead.com forums:

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48775

By: MoJo

MoJo — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:56:23 +0000

Thanks, AJE! I really like Atlantis for that, but for editing EPUB formatted ebooks, you should try Sigil. http://code.google.com/p/sigil/ It’s still in beta, but it gets its bugs worked out really quickly and I’m amazingly impressed.

By: ajeconsult

ajeconsult — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:44:26 +0000

What an excellent rant!
I have tried a plethora of epub software and without exception none of it is worth tuppence. Authors do not write in X£$%^ or sanscrit, or ugaritic, or some other obscure script. WE write in normal word processors such as MS Word. WE can all produce perfect, readable illustrated documents with these WPs. All that is needed is a piece of software to convert a MS Word (or other mainstrean WP program) document directly to an epub document (perhaps with some modest editing such as picture resize).

I am going to convert all my published works (and training courses) to ebooks. Caxton is finally dead.

I shall now go and give this Atlantis stuff a trial. Thank you

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By: MoJo

MoJo — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:55:10 +0000

Okay, I’ll try that and see what I get. Thanks!

But perhaps I’m missing something in your explanation.

It’s more than likely I didn’t explain it very well.

By: Joe Bruno

Joe Bruno — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:51:08 +0000

>I can have the best XHTML/CSS in the world, but that still doesn’t give me an EPUB file if I don’t have a grinder to put it through that fucking WORKS!

If you have your XHTML and CSS then all you need is a Zip program like PKZIPC. That’s what I did all my early development on.

But perhaps I’m missing something in your explanation.

By: bowerbird

bowerbird — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:31:15 +0000

mojo said:
> Oh no! That’s his project, not mine.

maybe, but he can’t get it up.

-bowerbird