Sentences with phrase «in meatgrinder»

In The Meatgrinder Madrigal, the artist spins a dense and complex web of narrative, allusion and dark humour to create a new mythos, making classical works from art history serve as her «found objects».

In May, 2011, we developed a workaround in Meatgrinder that enables us to auto - fix Open Office's bug that creates corrupted line spacing.

The big exception is Smashwords that requires a DOC file and then can manage some really odd mangling of it in their meatgrinder process.

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

Not exact matches

In order to comply with the many formats that the vendors use, Smashwords filters your manuscript through their formatting architecture program called «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?

The ability to create a bunch of other formats via Meatgrinder is nice in theory, but in actual practice, my sales have been small enough on Smashwords to not make those other formats worth considering.

Once you've filled in all of the metadata and uploaded the manuscript and the cover art, the Meatgrinder will churn away at your file; depending on how large your document is and how many folks are trying to upload at the same time, it can take from a few seconds to a few minutes.

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.

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).

Since I hate Smashwords with a passion because of the meatgrinder and the lag in payments, I started looking around.

There are thousands of E-Book Conversion companies in the market that are using automated software (what we call meatgrinders)

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.

I formatted in Word, and Smashwords has a great walk - through guide in how to format for their «meatgrinder» e-book creater.

Can you or someone tell me how to put links in an ebook when I'm using Mobipocket Creator for Amazon and Smashwords's meatgrinder for everywhere else?

Someone asked recently if it were possible to use the same technique in a Microsoft Word document that was going to be uploaded to Smashwords and put through the dreaded Meatgrinder.

Meatgrinder is the reason why Smashwords can sell ebooks in many formats, including everything from HTML, RTF, and DOC to Epub and Kindle.

With Scrollmotion being a leader in the mobile book app space with their Iceberg reader technology and polished children's book apps, I myself am curious if this partnership will bring about any future opportunities for Smashwords authors to have access to creating and publishing their books using the Iceberg Reader technology directly without going through the Smashwords meatgrinder process.

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.

Smashwords» meatgrinder conversion process sometimes has a few issues that can defy logic... or what passes for logic in my brain, anyway.

Converting a file using Meatgrinder may cause undesirable flow of the text, that is, the originality of text appearances could not be retained when the eBooks are viewed in varied eReader devices.

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.

If you construct your book and Table of Contents correctly (see Step 20 in the Style Guide), then our Meatgrinder conversion system will automatically create the NCX for you.

The Linked ToC is what our Meatgrinder conversion engine will use to create a linked ToC inside your ebook, and an NCX file (an external table of contents) that readers can use on nearly any e-reading device or in any app.

I know Smashwords gets a lot of static for its «meatgrinder,» but as a reader, I LOVE the fact that I can just buy a book and directly download it to my PC or other device, in any format, with no need for a proprietary app, no DRM, no hassles.

In most cases, even if you have improper line spacing defined, Meatgrinder will auto - correct it for you.

Meatgrinder is composed of various virtual «blades,» and each Meatgrinder blade specializes in creating a different ebook format.

Review by: Seraphim Press on June 09, 2013: (no rating) You may curse and stomp and rip out your hair at all the tedious little steps it takes to pre-format your document to upload to meatgrinder, but Mark Coker leads you step - by - step (with pictures) through the process and, even without meatgrinder, you'd be paying some ebook formatter big bucks to make these changes FOR you so you might as well learn now and avoid those bugaboos in the future.

Over the last six going on seven years, Smashwords introduced our free ebook printing press, Meatgrinder, which made it possible for any writer anywhere to publish an ebook in minutes; we opened distribution for the first time to major retailers and library partners that were previously inaccessible to self - published authors; we developed sophisticated yet easy - to - use publishing tools that help writers and small indie presses publish with pride and professionalism; we worked to actively educate our authors and publishers how to leverage best practices to publish with greater success; and we've been fierce (but friendly!)

In 2015, our authors and publishers can expect to see continuous improvements across every part of our business, including: New distribution and merchandising tools that make your books more discoverable and desirable by readers New price management tools that give our authors and publishers more granular control over pricing in multiple currencies and territories New retailer additions to the Smashwords distribution network serving retailers and libraries Improved, more intuitive sales reporting An upgraded Meatgrinder to improve the ease and capabilities of our flagship ebook conversion tool Improved search for the Smashwords retail store... and some fun surprises that will set the stage for even greater things to comIn 2015, our authors and publishers can expect to see continuous improvements across every part of our business, including: New distribution and merchandising tools that make your books more discoverable and desirable by readers New price management tools that give our authors and publishers more granular control over pricing in multiple currencies and territories New retailer additions to the Smashwords distribution network serving retailers and libraries Improved, more intuitive sales reporting An upgraded Meatgrinder to improve the ease and capabilities of our flagship ebook conversion tool Improved search for the Smashwords retail store... and some fun surprises that will set the stage for even greater things to comin multiple currencies and territories New retailer additions to the Smashwords distribution network serving retailers and libraries Improved, more intuitive sales reporting An upgraded Meatgrinder to improve the ease and capabilities of our flagship ebook conversion tool Improved search for the Smashwords retail store... and some fun surprises that will set the stage for even greater things to come.