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FS#56 - Direct book export (formatted export of novel)

Attached to Project: Storybook
Opened by Matthias (a-dead-trousers) - Saturday, 03 March 2012, 21:51 GMT+2
Last edited by Intertec (Intertec) - Monday, 30 April 2012, 16:33 GMT+2
Task Type Feature Request
Category Frontend
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Operating System All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.2.0
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

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Apache ODF Toolkit: http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/index.html

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It would be very convenient to export the novel itself in verious formats and not only the reports.
I tried your free version and it was very promising. So i thought screw it, lets buy the pro version to see how good the results will be on the output.
The only thing i found was that “ugly” plain text export. I know story book is not going to be a layout software like InDesign, but at least let me export my novel in ODT (for example). This way i won’t have to reformat (Chapter, Scenes, ...) the whole story from scratch whenever I want to just print it out.
If you are going to implement this feature, please also add an option to select which chapters/scenes to export.

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Closed by  Intertec (Intertec)
Monday, 30 April 2012, 16:33 GMT+2
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Matthias (a-dead-trousers) - Saturday, 03 March 2012, 22:06 GMT+2

Ok, I found the export as a summary, but it is not much better then plain text 'cause its only using half of the site.
And opening it in Writer (LibO) its even harder to reformat than plain text 'cause there are tables all over the place.

All I need is a simple export (similar to plain text) but with caption/scene headings formatted that i can change them all with one single click.

Comment by Intertec (Intertec) - Sunday, 04 March 2012, 09:49 GMT+2

It is already planed to have a direct book export feature in future. If possible we'd like to have several book formats supported, e.g. book formats that can be used on Books on Demand (bod.de) or lulu.com.

Comment by Matthias (a-dead-trousers) - Sunday, 04 March 2012, 13:31 GMT+2

Sounds great :)
Do you have any idea how long it will take? Half a year? One year? Longer?

If it takes to long for me to wait:
Your SVN-Repo only contains the free version. Am I right?
So do you think it will be possible to build this feature myself?
I graduated in java, but since then my skills got a bit rusty. Is the source code "well" documented? ;)
Is the ODT-export "component" also available in the free version to utilize it for this task?

wkr
ADT

Comment by Intertec (Intertec) - Monday, 05 March 2012, 09:55 GMT+2

If you can't wait, download the template from Lulu and insert the exported text. Actually pretty easy:
http://www.lulu.com/publish/books/#bookSpecs

PS: We cannot give support for building from source code. Sorry.

Comment by Raymond den Otter (Mondi) - Thursday, 15 March 2012, 23:34 GMT+2

I'd be happy if I could export to MsWord, having the output presented as shown in the Book View screen. Point is that I'd like to take my works in progress with me when traveling, as to read my work as if it's already published - or at least formatted as a passable manuscript. Typically, this habit springs forth new content, and helps me to 'bug-out' continuity issues.

Are you considering adding a MsWord Export feature? [hoping, hoping, hoping...]

PS: Just noticing your reference to Lulu, and eager to learn how to use their templates.

Comment by Intertec (Intertec) - Friday, 16 March 2012, 18:31 GMT+2

Use RTF, that's for MS Word: http://www.novelist.ch/joomla/index.php/en/storybook-pro

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