Sentences with phrase «meatgrinder does»

Set up a new title, upload your file, and let meatgrinder do its thing.

doc format — and let Meatgrinder do all the work!

Not exact matches

Once you've done that, you can throw your manuscript through their MeatGrinder system, and it spits out a bunch of different formats for your book.

Some people don't like meatgrinder.

Do you know if the ebooks formatted in this way using html, are compatible with the Smashwords style requirements and can pass through the Meatgrinder conversion?

Furthermore, when introducing each type of formatting, there is no explanation about the reasons / bases for ebooks» formatting issues or the assistance offered, via Smashwords vs. Amazon, for example, or about difficulties of passing through Smashwords ««meatgrinder» successfully and what that success generates in benefits; no mention is made of that nor that Digital2Digital does not use such gate - keeping, for example.

If you use plan on using Smashwords, their auto conversion process, which they call the «Meatgrinder,» does not always produce the best results if your Word document is not setup properly.

Not only does SW automatically push your manuscript out in all the various major publication styles, the Word document, when formatted for «Meatgrinder» is at least 97 % ready for Amazon and B&N (most just a question of dropping the cover from page one).

And the Kindle file they produce via the Meatgrinder simply can't compare to a hand - coded file done by professionals such as Guido, especially with more complex books.

I agree that formatting a book yourself (or having someone do it for you) will usually result in a prettier book than Smashwords» meatgrinder, even for novels with no fancy stuff.

Since I'd already decided I didn't want to mess with the meatgrinder, I went to D2D.

I did this because I hate Smashwords» meatgrinder.

I can't claim that the Smashwords «meatgrinder» would not do just as good a job, but my semi-informed sense says: BB will do a better job.

One of the things I do at my job is clean up and beautify e-books that have been produced by a «meatgrinder» — the sort of automated conversion process that an outsourcer uses.

There are no two books that are just alike; we don't have a meatgrinder, one - format - fits - all solution.

I just don't have the time nor the inclination to deal with the meatgrinder and its additional requirements.

I just have to do some reformatting first to get it ready for the Meatgrinder, which actually didn't seem to be as big a hassle as some have said it would.

Draft2Digital also provides distribution services, and doesn't have Meatgrinder problems.

But one problem with Meatgrinder is that it doesn't offer output that satisfies ebook design pros, many of whom think that (compared to making an eBook from scratch) it's not easy to control the quality of the output.

doc does not allow embedded fonts, graphics are badly mangled, and internal hyperlinks (necessary for an index and / or footnotes) do not go through the Meatgrinder well at all.

Don't use the italics button from up in the tool bar of Word, they'll get lost in the Meatgrinder.

I mean, companies like Smashwords actually actively discourage authors from creating proper eBook files by not allowing them to upload individual files and instead forcing their Meatgrinder upon everyone, a technology that — in its current state — does nothing to improve eBook quality and typically makes things incomprehensibly worse.

The main advantage with D2D seems to be what it doesn't have: there's no Meatgrinder.

Yet I've recently seen several EPUB ebooks that seem to get it right more of the time and don't look like they've been through a «meatgrinder» to get converted.

Once the series is done (two more titles) I'll do POD next, then get out of the Select program and learn how to do Kobo & B&N and if I'm really brave, I'll take on the Smashwords Meatgrinder.

Here is where eBook Enhancers is helpful in providing authors with an EPUB file of their Word format manuscripts, which is done MANUALLY without using any automated formats like Meatgrinder, so as to have the text appear properly aligned, retaining originality and look similar in any eReader devices as well as computers.

Its meatgrinder program can do nasty things to your manuscript.

The ONLY way to get your book to pass the all - too - important «Meatgrinder» and «EPUBcheck» (which mine did FIRST TRY) is to follow Mark's instructions to the letter.

If your on - screen formatting doesn't match the embedded coding (Go to Format: Style to view how different styles are coded), you'll pass conflicting instructions to the Meatgrinder converter.

Meatgrinder will puree your document and your readers will be wrinkling their noses at your epub saying, «This guy has NO idea how to format an ebook...» Also, do you...

If you can survive their meatgrinder, they'll do a lot of the other work for you.