I think I've cracked this ebook malarky. I can use Scrivener to get all the images and words in the right order and do basic formatting. Then export to .docx, open in Pages so I can make the vocab tables pretty and export to epub with embedded fonts (which Scrivener won't do). Bit of a palaver. - ThreadSky

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suw.bsky.social • 87 days ago

I think I've cracked this ebook malarky. I can use Scrivener to get all the images and words in the right order and do basic formatting. Then export to .docx, open in Pages so I can make the vocab tables pretty and export to epub with embedded fonts (which Scrivener won't do). Bit of a palaver.

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simonmackie.uk•87 days ago

My one bit of advice would be to use Epubcheck (either the official version from https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck or the validator in Sigil) to make sure that the epub is valid, otherwise even if it seems to work it’ll get rejected by stores. I do this as I go to make sure I’m not introducing errors.

suw.bsky.social•87 days ago

Thanks! Will do! Though I'm only going to sell it direct to start with. I loathe Amazon with the heat of a thousand suns, so if I can avoid it, I shall.

suw.bsky.social•87 days ago

I've done it! It was way more painful than it needed to be, but I have an ebook that looks fairly reasonable, flows properly, and is valid. Woot! Now to send to beta readers.

dfrw.bsky.social•87 days ago

Thanks for these useful tips. And well done there!

suw.bsky.social•87 days ago

God, I'm glad they were useful for someone! I was mostly just shouting into the void to vent my frustration.

dfrw.bsky.social•87 days ago

Been there :) The best thing is getting to the end having succeeded!

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