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Comment on Ebook Creation Workflow by John

John — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:48:47 +0000

I would be InDesign (for ebook creation only) on the same level as Jutoh and Atlantis Word Processor. I have not used it myself but people I know who do have not been able to tell me any compelling reason to use it over other tools. The only big draw I can see of InDesign is it’s ability to create both digital and print. If you only need to create eBooks the big issue with InDesign is it’s large price tag.

Comment on Ebook Creation Workflow by Debbi

Debbi — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:59:00 +0000

What about using InDesign CS5? How does that fit into the workflow of an epub?

Comment on Ebook Creation Workflow by Curtis Hox

Curtis Hox — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:13:42 +0000

Great info, John! Big help!

Comment on Duplicity Backup Script by John

John — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:48:26 +0000

Restore is handled by duplicity. When a URL comes before a local directory it works in restore mode. See http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html for details. However, my backup script does not handle restore. This would need to be done manually using duplicity directly.

Comment on Duplicity Backup Script by Peter

Peter — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:07:28 +0000

Thanks for that. And to restore, you just use duplicity?

Comment on Duplicity Backup Script by John

John — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:03:45 +0000

FULLDAYS=”30D” and MAXFULL=3 are easy to change constants used by the script. They are not part of duplicity itself.

FULLDAYS set to 30D says that we want a full backup every 30 days. By default the script does incremental backups based upon the last full backup. I want to force a full backup every 30 days.

MAXFULL is how many full backups to keep around. A full backup being set to 30 days means that I only store the last 3 months (or so) of backups.

The idea is to do incremental backups most of the time but do a full backup every so often to make it easier to do a restore if necessary. Also only store the last 3 months of backups. Anything older will be automatically deleted.

Comment on Duplicity Backup Script by Peter

Peter — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:54:55 +0000

Forgive the basic question (Very new to duplicity), and need something to backup my wordpress databases. What do the following options do?

FULLDAYS=”30D”
MAXFULL=3

Comment on Formatting Tips: Raised Initial by Curtis Hox

Curtis Hox — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:42:47 +0000

John

Finally got back around to formatting one of ebooks. I used your initial capital suggestion. So simple! But works like a charm. Thanks.

Comment on Retrieve Formatting Set by QSyntaxHighlighter by Jason

Jason — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:40:48 +0000

Trixy.

Comment on Nook Covers Not Showing Up by Sean N

Sean N — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:19:10 +0000

Thanks for the tip.

WHile this work beautifully on Nook Color, It does not seem to help Nook for Android (I could boot the nook color to Android 2.3 via SD and have tried this). Moreover the default cover in Nook for Android is totally messed up to begin with, so this becomes more of an issue.

Does anyone know how Nook for Android handles cover?

Thanks!