eBook making process ( Supplement)
Save as ePUB
Note:The following process is intended to create a eBook of "ePUB" format. using "Ichitaro," If you want to create only "PDF" format one、then you do not need to do it.
①『ファイル(File)』→『他の形式で保存/開く(Save or open in other formats)』→『EPUB保存(Save as EPUB)』
②『アクティブなシートのみ保存します。他のシートのデータは保存されません。実行したもよろしいですか?(Only the active sheets are saved. Data of other sheets are not saved. Are you sure you want to execute it?)』→『はい(Yes.)』
③EPUBファイルのプロパティ(Property of EPUB file):Fill in the necessary information and click "保存(Save)".
タイトル(Title):The Origin of Christianity (T)
作成者(Author):Atsushi Murakami
言語(Language):English
表紙(Cover):In general, you can choose "シート (Sheet)". Then, the cover image of your eBook shall be displayed on the right-hand side..
If you upload the cover and the text separately to some eBook publishing platform, such as Amazon KDP, select "なし(None)".
発行者(Publisher):SEA Research
著作権(Copyright):Atsushi Murakami
⑤Specify the "location" to save the file and the "file name," and click "Save."
⑥The process of converting into ePUB file is displayed. And when the process has been completed, the processing time which has been taken also will be displayed.as follows.
⑦Then make sure the ePUB file has been generated in the location where you specified..
Comparison of ePUB and PDF versions
The display can be adjusted according to the size of the screen under the EPUB format, which has become an international standard of the e-book file and is suitable for uploading to the main electronic publishers' site, such as Amazon.
However, it is difficult to maintain the symmetry of the text contents and illustrations in a book using a large number of illustrations, such as "The origin of Christianity." (Although it seems to have a setting to fix the display under EPUB format, I did not use such setting.)
Comparing Japanese, Chinese and English three languages versions of the ePUB e-book made with Ichitaro by me, the symmetry of the text contents and illustrations is maintained on the Chinese version and there is no difference between ePUB format and PDF format. (That was confirmed with Kindle Previewer, when I uploaded it to the Amazon KDP.) There are some deviations in the Japanese version. And the frequency of the deviation has increased in the English version. However, the deviations in both Japanese and English versions are in the acceptable range and may not really bother you. While the sizes of Chinese characters are same but there are two types of character in Japanese language, that is, "kanji" and "kana" and the sizes of them are different. When it comes to English, the sizes of English words are very different. These circumstances may be the cause of the difference on the symmetry of the text contents and illustrations among these three language versions.
The symmetry of the text contents and illustrations in the document is maintained perfectly on the PDF format. In other words, the symmetry in the ".doc" file made with Word and the ".jtd" file made with Ichitaro will be maintained perfectly after they have been converted into PDF files.
The ePUB version of "The origin of Christianity" made with Ichitaro has now been distributed through Amazon KDP stores and the PDF version made with Word is sold by SEAnews eBookstore as it was in the past.