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== Activities ==
== Activities ==


== Activities ==
After some catching up on the contexts of our projects, we discussed the plan for today:
 
* a tour of Calibre
* hybrid publishing workflows
* embedding metadata in PDFs
* making digital files (EPUB, PDF with pandoc)
* converting between file formats in Calibre
 
Our workshop was documented on a pad in [[Markdown]], from which we made a PDF:

Revision as of 09:40, 12 May 2022

Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion
Location: At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online
Date: November 24th, 2021
Time: 16:00-19:00 CET
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4
Tools: {{{tools detail}}}
Guests: {{{guests detail}}}

Context

PDF (Portable Document Format) is a highly popular digital file format for ebooks. Calibre is an open-source ebook manager and is also well-known as "the swiss army knife of document conversion". In this workshop, we created, queried and embedded metadata in a PDF by using tools such as Pandoc, Exiftool and of course, Calibre.

Activities

After some catching up on the contexts of our projects, we discussed the plan for today:

  • a tour of Calibre
  • hybrid publishing workflows
  • embedding metadata in PDFs
  • making digital files (EPUB, PDF with pandoc)
  • converting between file formats in Calibre

Our workshop was documented on a pad in Markdown, from which we made a PDF: