epub!

Andremusic · Post by **Andremusic** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:19 pm

I would love to see epub support!

polop · Post by **polop** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:32 am

Atlantis 2.0 doesn't exist yet...

Andremusic · Post by **Andremusic** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:39 am

Wishful thinking...

(I already put that there since 2 yeas ago or so

Andremusic · Post by **Andremusic** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:28 am

I'm very happy with the ebook format, thanks for adding this. Would it be possible to ad an option to change the layout of the ebook as well? Like giving an percament Kind of paper feel or using colorful fonts?

Post by **admin** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:22 pm

The Save as eBook feature of Atlantis does not offer a "page background" option (page background color or picture) because we are planning to add "Page background" as a document-wide option (characteristic) in Atlantis. You could have custom page backgrounds in any of your Atlantis documents. Document's page background would be automatically saved to an eBook. But please note that not every eBook readers support custom page background in EPUBs.

What do you mean by "colorful fonts"?

Andremusic · Post by **Andremusic** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:30 am

admin wrote:The Save as eBook feature of Atlantis does not offer a "page background" option (page background color or picture) because we are planning to add "Page background" as a document-wide option (characteristic) in Atlantis. You could have custom page backgrounds in any of your Atlantis documents. Document's page background would be automatically saved to an eBook. But please note that not every eBook readers support custom page background in EPUBs.

What do you mean by "colorful fonts"?

This sounds really great! I'm looking forward to it. You are making Atlantis every time again more attractive to use with every little option you ad. Thanks for this.

With colorful fonts (maybe a little bit strange description,...) I meant something like on the picture I added with this post.

André

Andremusic · Post by **Andremusic** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:03 am

Maybe a far to stretched question, but is it possible to make a stand alone app for the iphone with the epub option in Atlantis? I know there are still other problems like getting it into Apples very protected app store, but I love to see my writings as an app on the iPhone, nicely formated like for example the Classics2go app. I looked into programming for the iphone options as well, but it's too complicated for me.

Post by **admin** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 7:25 pm

Sorry, André, but we do not develop iPhone applications.

Andremusic · Post by **Andremusic** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:19 am

Hi!
Any news on the "Page background" option? I would love to try it out to see if it works with the epub on my iPhone.

André

Post by **admin** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:45 pm

Sorry, no news on this yet. What I can say for sure is that any next release of Atlantis will support multilevel tables of contents in EPUBs. In two words, Atlantis will pick up paragraphs formatted with Heading styles of any level when generating tables of contents for EPUBs.

Andremusic · Post by **Andremusic** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:33 am

admin wrote:Sorry, no news on this yet. What I can say for sure is that any next release of Atlantis will support multilevel tables of contents in EPUBs. In two words, Atlantis will pick up paragraphs formatted with Heading styles of any level when generating tables of contents for EPUBs.

Sounds great! So not necessary anymore for me to check if I am using the correct heading. Nice!

Post by **admin** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:30 am

You will still have to use correct Heading styles in your source documents. If you do not need a multilevel table of contents in your eBook, you will have to use the "Heading 1" style exclusively. The "Heading 2" style will have to be used for sub-headings (headings of level 2) only.

Josch · Post by **Josch** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:02 am

First of all, thank you for the "Export as eBook" Feature. It's very useful.

Now to my Feature Request:

If I'm opening the ePub File, wich I created with Atlantis, with Sigil, all the chapters are away. Because they are only stored in the "tox.ncx" File in the ePub-ZIP. Is it possible, that you also higlight Chapters in the html-Files with Chapter Tags, like this "<h1>Chapter 1</h1>" or this "<h2>Chapter 1.1</h2>.
This would be wonderful, because it wolud be possible to rework the ePubs created wit Atlantis, in Sigil.

Sorry for my bad English and thank you in advance,
Josch

PS: Link to the Sigil ePub Editor:
http://code.google.com/p/sigil/

Post by **admin** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:39 am

The EPUB specification does not require <hN> tags within XHTMLs. The NCX file is the only source of information about chapters of the EPUB document. Sorry, but Atlantis could not generate extra information for Sigil if this information is not required by eBook readers.

Post by **admin** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:44 am

By the way, below is a link to another ePub-related topic of our forum:
http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en ... php?t=1256

purcelljf · Post by **purcelljf** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:43 am

I recently began testing Atlantis to see if it would be of use to me in creating EPUBs. My process for creating EPUBs has been to create the content in Word 2007; then I would import the Word files into Dreamweaver where I would assign an external style sheet and clean-up the unwanted code. After that, I would import the html files into SIGIL for final editing.

Now I see an admin commented that the EPUB specification doesn't require <Hn> tags so Atlantis doesn't generate them.

My own two cents is one the of the great features of reading EPUBs is the TOC feature that allows me to create multi-level table of contents. I know I can create a link based table of contents but why in the world wouldn't I want to have both?

This leads me to the point that Atlantis would be much more appealing to me as an ebook creator, if it assigned <Hn> tags to my headings.

Post by **admin** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 6:55 am

As said above, <hN> tags are not needed in EPUBs. If Sigil is unable to recognize properly encoded chapters within EPUBs, it is not a failure of Atlantis. So there is nothing to fix in Atlantis. I am sorry, but we cannot make changes to Atlantis just because they are needed by Sigil.

purcelljf · Post by **purcelljf** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 7:40 am

I am confused by your response. Is there any eBook reader software or device that will recognize the Headers created in Atlantis, and build a Table of Contents from it?

I don't care whether SIGIL recognizes the Headers from Atlantis, only that my eBOOK reader, such as Stanza does.

To me, an EPUB is flawed and incomplete if I can't pull up a table of contents from anywhere within my book.

Post by **admin** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:11 am

As far as I know, the major EPUB readers are Adobe Digital Editions, Sony Reader, and iPad. Any fully-fledged EPUB reader does recognize multi-level TOCs in EPUBs generated by Atlantis.

I do not have iPhone to view EPUBs in iPhone's Stanza. But I cannot find a single EPUB file on my hard disk whose chapters are recognized correctly by the desktop version of Stanza.

Post by **admin** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 10:59 am

purcelljf wrote:Is there any eBook reader software or device that will recognize the Headers created in Atlantis, and build a Table of Contents from it?

By the way, eBook readers build no tables of contents from anything. Any EPUB file contains a "standalone" table of contents generated by the EPUB creation software.

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