Formatting Changes after Conversion

[Sook]

Hi there,

I am new in this. I am exploring the conversion of a single word file document into html, Epub and pdf. Could you advise me how to get this done? I read the guide, and it does not talk about conversion to EPub and pdf much. Issues encountered including changes in formatting totally different from the format given. This includes pdf. Could you advise?

[Sook]

Hi there,

I hope to hear from you again. Let me explain this further.

First Question:
We are producing e-textbooks and this comes in the form of pdf, html and EPubs. Currently, they are done by different production teams. WE are looking into streamlining the system. Is there any way which we could produce the three formats using a single source word document using Oxygen?

Second Question:
What complicates matter is that our EPubs are highly interactive with videos, audios, and interactive quiz and images (using SVGs, etc). Could I use Oxygen to introduce/add in all these elements after I have created a EPub?

Third Question:
Oxygen uses a different EPub template from ours. How do we insert ours into Oxygen?

Third Question:
I have a number of EPubs produced by Jutoh working on a different EPub template. We are thinking of switching this to using Oxygen and use Oxygen to edit the old EPub files (produced by Jutoh). What problems would you foresee?

Thank you very much, Adrian. Your advice is much appreciated.

[Costin]

Hello,

Please find below some answers to the questions you have addressed:

First Question:
- oXygen XML Editor is XML editing oriented software and unfortunately there is not possible to directly edit MS Word files and publish them to multiple formats afterwards.
There is predefined support for publishing common XML formats (like DITA, DocBook, TEI) to various formats (PDF, HTMP, Epub, WebHelp, etc).
Therefore, you could work with a common XML document format instead, in which you could include the content you need from the Word document and finally publish it to whatever format you want. The Smart Paste feature in oXygen (https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor ... pport.html) could prove helpful for this matter, allowing you to copy content from Word directly into your common XML documents (DocBook or DITA is recommended) while in the Author editing mode.

Second Question:
- Even if this is possible in oXygen, it is not recommended. This is because it is good practice to insert the media content directly into the source XML documents, then process them and set Epub as the output result of the XML transformation.

Third Question:
- If you have specific Epub templates which you would like to use further, you should place them into the general "templates" subfolder of your oXygen installation folder.
Please note that you should manually edit the extension of the epubs and insert ".bin" at the end of them, so the document templates extension should look like: "template_name.epub.bin". Please see the "EPUB 2.0 Book.epub.bin" and "EPUB 3.0 Book.epub.bin" templates from the oXygen templates folder as an example. Also, if you have specific icons you need to be displayed for your templates, you should also create a "template_name.properties" file for each of your templates and define the specific icons in those files. To have a better view over this, you can also look at the ones already existent for EPUB 2.0 and EPUB 3.0 from the same templates folder.

Fourth Question:
- Please note that oXygen XML Editor is not a tool specialized in Epub editing.
Oxygen handles the EPUB files as containers for files, so basically the support oXygen provides for ePub is intended only for low level editing and validation of such documents.

Kind Regards,
Costin