/calibre-latex

Latex Output Plugin for Calibre

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

LaTeX Output Plugin for Calibre

This is an output plugin for Calibre, which provides document conversion into the LaTeX format. The main goal of it, is to generate a TeX document, which can be edited and then converted into a PDF file using the pdflatex command. The conversion process it automatic, however due to the high complexity of the LaTeX syntax and frequently used tricks, the output source file will aways need some manual corrections. Simply put, this tool is not some magic wizard which will do all the work. It should help a lot, though.

Installation

  1. Download the latest version of the plugin from the releases page.
  2. Open the Calibre application and go to the Preferences dialog.
  3. Go to the Plugins section and click the Load plugin from file button.
  4. Select the downloaded file and click Open.
  5. Click Yes to confirm installation of the plugin.
  6. Restart the Calibre application.

Usage

After successful installation, this plugin should be fully functional. You can use it from the Calibre GUI or from the command line conversion utility, e.g.:

ebook-convert AwesomeDocument.mobi more-awesome-latex-document.tex