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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]], [[ExifTool]] and of course, [[Calibre]].
[[PDF|PDF (Portable Document Format)]] is a highly popular digital file format for ebooks. In this workshop, we created, queried and embedded metadata in a PDF by using tools such as [[Pandoc]], [[ExifTool]] and of course [[Calibre]], "the swiss army knife of document conversion".


== Activities ==
== Activities ==

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. In this workshop, we created, queried and embedded metadata in a PDF by using tools such as Pandoc, ExifTool and of course Calibre, "the swiss army knife of document conversion".

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: