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Originally Posted by =X=
Yes apparently the IMP building process has issues with Office 2007. I'm looking into resolving this but what's complicating the process is the fact that I don't have 2007.
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This is a consistent behaviour, though. Nothing serious indeed, since Word gracefully restarts after hanging.
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Oh justification works. The default style "_1 Text" does not justify the text, since I don't like the way word processors justify. (I want true justification or nothing)
To get justification to work change the paragraph aligment on the "_1 Text" style. I don't know how to do this on 2007. but on 2003 do as follows:
1) Right click on the "_1 Text" style, a menu should appear
2) Select the "Modify..." menu, a dialog should appear
3) Change the paragraph alignment to "justify" and save
=X=
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I checked that justification indeed works. However, you seem to imply that when you import a text, it automagically acquires the default _1 Text style. It is not so on my system; after import, none of the special Bookcreator styles that are visible in the right column seem to be in use. After clicking on "Book author" or "Book title", the corresponding styles get used. For paragraphs, you either have to apply the _1 Text to all of them - a tedious task at best for a long book - or to modify "style options" so the styles really used in the document appear, find the "normal style" for the document you imported, and modify it to your taste - which takes much less time. Then you can proceed and build the IMP file.
The result is satisfying, and the justification is ok at 45 characters per line, using Palatino and no hyphenation. No "rivers" accross the screen.
I have inserted a cover image at the front of the text, followed by a page break; the cover appears correctly in the IMP file.
I have tested with headers at the top of the page, but this won't work. Running headers would be a treat, though...
So I feel that Bookcreator is quite usable
and gives good results, as compared to BD. Different philosophy, I daresay.