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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Please don't spread falsehoods about Calibre and Sigil. You cannot open an ePub in Word, so that's not going to happen.
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Speaking as one of the Sigil Maintainers: he wasn't really spreading falsehoods. If the Epub wasn't created with Sigil, it's entirely possible that opening and saving without making any edits could cause unforeseen damage. We take great steps to try and ensure that won't happen, but there are no guarantees. It (Sigil) will certainly alter the structure of any epub that didn't match Sigil's mandated structure.
But regardless... the advice was pretty solid. You don't want clients opening finished epubs with programs that could make changes to the product if they aren't extremely careful.
I appreciate your attempt to defend Sigil, but it's unnecessary in this case. No aspersions were being cast and no falsehoods were being spread. An unknowedgeable client
could do serious damage to a finished epub with Sigil (or another program) without realizing it.
If they paid someone to create an epub for them, best they only open the finished product with a
reading device or app. Not before they'd uploaded the original to the various retailers, at least. Anything else could be asking for trouble.