Add support for Opening and saving of Epub documents. The specification appears to be an easy modification to the html output engine. As for details, this will loosely wrap around the html editor and writer documents. The essential part of this file format is that they are all a zip file containing a Manifest, images, sounds and html text. The specifications are already available online for free, and multiple ebook readers make use of this file format. Also, as a side note, this supports DRM, however, it's easy to identify which files use this. anyways, for reference, look at the following standards outlined on the International Digital Publishing forum (IDPF)... Open Publication Structure (OPS), Open Packaging Format (OPF), and Open Container Format (OCF). These essentially outline how an epub file is to be created. References: International Digital Publishing Forum: (EPUB Maintainers) http://www.idpf.org/ EpubCheck: (epub validation tool) http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/ Sigil eBook Editor (sample epub editor): http://code.google.com/p/sigil/ Electronic Publication (EPUB, current format, wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB Open eBook: (Legacy format, wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_eBook
I would also like to vote for this feature to be added. It would be a great help to export straight to ePub instead of using a third party converter.
Voting doesn't help, offering to actually help in writing code does.
(In reply to comment #2) > Voting doesn't help, offering to actually help in writing code does. If I was a coder, I would offer. I'd be glad to help test the changes, but that's about all I can do right now.
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I don't think it's feasible. The EPUB document can have an arbitrary structure, with improper editing making it unusable. LO can generate XHTML output which is to be processed by specialized editors aware of EPUB structure and device requirements.
Well, we could make it an export-only format like PDF. I think that's doable. Basically it's XHTML with a subset of CSS and some meta-information packed in a defined folder-structure as a ZIP-File.
There are two extensions for exporting EPUB Documents: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/elaix http://extensions.openoffice.org/de/project/writer2epub Maybe we can consider bundling one of them with LibreOffice.
I just created a wiki page to cover EPUB topics relevant to * LibreOffice * The Document Liberation Project https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/EPUB
Sounds like a good idea. Read a PDF, ODT or DOCX format in a mobile device is very complicated. Instead, the ePub format is ideal for display or just to check the status of a report, because if you want to edit, you can use LO from a desktop computer.
(In reply to comment #10) > Sounds like a good idea. Read a PDF, ODT or DOCX format in a mobile device > is very complicated. Instead, the ePub format is ideal for display or just > to check the status of a report, because if you want to edit, you can use LO > from a desktop computer. To do what you're describing would require very good round-trip support for EPUB in LibreOffice. I think that's something we can aim for as a future goal, but I expect the initial EPUB export in LibreOffice will be much more limited, and imagine that the import/export process is likely to remove or change some of the internal structure of a given EPUB document.
Hi, every tme I try to install the suggested update for writer2epub I get the following message: Error while installing extension writer2epub.oxt. The error message is: Cannot detect media-type: file:///var/folders/gt/dm49pm8x22xd1hm_cnn6d7_80000gn/T/75tt2i_/xVW5VD_/writer2epub The extension will not be installed. What next? Thank you very much, Massimo
(In reply to Massimo Tallarigo from comment #12) > Hi, every tme I try to install the suggested update for writer2epub I get > the following message: > Error while installing extension writer2epub.oxt. The error message is: Hi Massimo, For bug reports about an extension, please talk to the developer directly, e.g. http://writer2epub.it/en/
*** Bug 103993 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think the focus should be on creating a method for exporting to ePUB from Writer like PDF. This is how other software like Pages or extensions for LibreOffice works.
https://vmiklos.hu/blog/basic-epub3-export.html and https://vmiklos.hu/blog/epub3-improvements.html implements this. For particular follow-up bug/feature requests, please open individual bugs.