{"id":14075,"date":"2012-05-18T09:57:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T16:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2012\/05\/18\/14075.html"},"modified":"2012-05-18T09:57:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T16:57:20","slug":"converting-rtf-to-ibooks-use-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2012\/05\/18\/converting-rtf-to-ibooks-use-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting RTF to iBooks: Use Calibre, not Stanza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I recently had occasion to convert an RTF file to EPUB format, for reading in iBooks on my iPad.<\/p>\n

When I searched for how best to do that, the first recommendation I saw said to use Stanza Desktop. I had used and more or less liked Stanza as an iPhone ebook reader, so I had at least a mild positive association with the name.<\/p>\n

So I downloaded it and tried it out. It worked very smoothly, and I proceeded to read the document in question in iBooks. (The margins were too wide, but not impossibly so.)<\/p>\n

And then last night I converted another RTF file the same way, and discovered that Stanza's conversion process unitalicizes all italicized text.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the first document didn't have a lot of italics in it, so I didn't miss much. But it had enough that I'm kind of annoyed with Stanza.<\/p>\n

So I searched for other options, and found Calibre<\/a>. It's not perfect by any means, and its interface on the Mac is kind of clunky and confusing, but it does retain italics in converted documents.<\/p>\n

So I figured I should post about the italics issue, as a public service announcement.<\/p>\n

(I probably ought to have used iBooks Author instead, but that requires Mac OS X 10.7, and I haven't gotten around to upgrading my MacBook yet.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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