Exporting Files

You can generate files as you go. Just execute kitabu export from your book’s root directory.

$ kitabu export
** e-book has been exported

This command will generate all supported formats¹. The generated files will be placed on your output directory; the following output list only the relevant files.

$ tree output
output
├── images
│   ├── kitabu.png
│   └── kitabu.svg
├── kitabu.epub
├── kitabu.html
├── kitabu.mobi
├── kitabu.pdf
├── kitabu.print.pdf
├── kitabu.txt
└── styles
    ├── epub.css
    ├── html.css
    ├── pdf.css
    └── print.css

This can take a while depending on your book size, but usually the process is pretty fast. If you want to generate a specific format faster, provide the --only flag.

$ kitabu export --only pdf

You can also automatically generate files when something changes. You can use Guard for this, and Kitabu even generates a sample file for you. All you have to do is running bundle exec guard.

$ bundle exec guard
20:38:10 - INFO - Guard is now watching at '/Users/fnando/Projects/kitabu/examples/kitabu'
** e-book has been exported

Exporting PDF with DocRaptor

After exporting your files (you can use --only pdf for this), upload files to somewhere public, possibly your Dropbox account. You can even use curl; since the command is quite long, you can view it at https://gist.github.com/fnando/de555a08e7aab14a661a.