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retiredbiker · 02-01-2018, 07:55 PM

There is an option to use an .odt file as input when adding a book, and Calibre converts from that very well. But there is no option to convert TO an .odt.

I use LibreOffice almost exclusively as my WYSIWYG editor. When I find a book with, say, 700 active styles, a bunch of Word junk, and it looks like a ransom note, I usually convert it to .rtf, open it in LibreOffice, and do a "start over" re-formatting project.

It would be cool if Calibre could just convert to open document format...it would save a lot of steps, like stripping tabs, initial spaces, and so on. Any chance of that?

02-01-2018, 07:55 PM	#1
retiredbiker Evangelist Posts: 450 Karma: 3886916 Join Date: May 2013 Location: Ontario, Canada Device: Kindle KB, Oasis, Pop_Os!, Kobo Forma	.odt Output Option? There is an option to use an .odt file as input when adding a book, and Calibre converts from that very well. But there is no option to convert TO an .odt. I use LibreOffice almost exclusively as my WYSIWYG editor. When I find a book with, say, 700 active styles, a bunch of Word junk, and it looks like a ransom note, I usually convert it to .rtf, open it in LibreOffice, and do a "start over" re-formatting project. It would be cool if Calibre could just convert to open document format...it would save a lot of steps, like stripping tabs, initial spaces, and so on. Any chance of that?