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== Context == | == Context == | ||
[[PDF|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]], [[ | [[PDF|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 == | == Activities == |
Revision as of 09:40, 12 May 2022
Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion |
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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: