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Originally Posted by Hitch
Did you create those page breaks using page-break functionality in Word? Using page-break always or before, or...?
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I checked in Word 2002. I set up a win7 ultimate PC especially and installed the MS Word I used from 2002 to 2016 on my ancient laptop. I use LibreOffice 6.x and 5.x on various Linux laptops and netbooks. I was using LibreOffice & Calibre on XP for some years before switching to Linux entirely.
I was using "insert page before" in "text flow" in "Paragraph Style". Which worked for three years and nearly two years on Linux only platform for Amazon uploads. The SAME file was working with their Kindle Create, Calibre and Smashwords. They had no idea why neither doc, docx, from LibreOffice or MS Word 2002 was giving ZERO page breaks on their upload but working on everything else.
Yes, I know how useless tech support is. When I worked in tech only the problems of rich important corporate customers reached us. We rarely had any idea of the insane rubbish the script monkeys gave to the public. Which is why we used to look at 3rd party forums from time to time in case something mysterious got broken. Once it was a local council installing uncertified illegal equipment all over the city!
I DO NOT NEED WHAT SIGIL DOES. I READ WRITE AND EDIT. Actually converting my "docx" file from LibreOffice with Calibre to an ePub works absolutely perfectly.
Maybe if I was doing a "plot your own adventure" or a complex document I'd use Sigil. A Straight novel with chapters, breaks, the odd image and TOC is really simple and once you understand the how paragraph styles, headings and ebooks work, Calibre is FAST and SIMPLE!
Sigil is like the old days of Wordstar 3.0 and dedicated DTP programs that were complicated to use. Or making webpages before WYSIWYG editors or CMS like Wordpress and Drupal. It's a niche product for specialist full time epub "editors" making complex ebooks. I have Sigil for ages and have spent considerable time on it. I also looked at the epub plugin for LibreOffice 5.x and the built in epub export in LibreOffice 6.x.
Sorry, but I've been doing WP, DTP, Webpages, programming, writing, SQL, etc for over 25 years and teaching it too and I'm fed up with people telling me to use Sigil or Kindle Creator (sublime to ridiculous) when Calibre does exactly what I want. You can even edit the epub in Calibre epub editor if you are clueless about how to use Styles in LibreOffice (I do use that to debug when the unexpected happens). If you need to edit the ePub your'e using the Wordprocessor styles wrong.