eBook Creator?

[Miko]

CAn anyone recommend an eBook creator? I would like to compile my novels into eBook - format, but I've no idea where to begin. Could someone pls give some basic info? If you could recommend a good / user friendly program I could go from there.

Thanks in advance for all help. (pls let me know if this is not the correct category in which to post this thread)

Thank You.

[lavenderpup]

An ebook usually comes in the form of a .pdf or a .lit. Now I have no clue about making Microsoft Reader .lit files and they've only just started becoming more popular . .pdf files, however can be made in Adobe Acrobat (not reader which is just the viewer) and perhaps http://adobe.com has a trial of this. Some people also use pdf factory but the trial version leaves an unsavory watermark at the end. But anyway, there are probably also pdf makers out there.

[Miko]

ah - I see. Thanks a million

[Rokuemon]

Yea the problem is getting a free pdf creation program, one that works and isnt too fiddly to set up. A lot of people think pdf belongs to Adobe, but its an open standard. i dont know why there arent more free utilities for it. Even those that around seem a bit fiddly to me.

We have Acrobat standard edtion at work which makes pdfs, and I can use that if I want a pdf. They are exelent for many kinds of documents.

The next versions of Word and MS OFFice will have pdf creation built in. but you still have to buy those X_X

I want to try PDFcreator for home,but havent got round to it. site looks a bit geeky, not easy to work out how to get it working.

[Lord Sylak]

the OpenOffice.org Suite has teh ability to save any sort of office document to PDF format, adn its free. i recomend that.

[Miko]

oh good - thank you both.