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Quoth · 05-12-2020, 05:55 AM

I tried the epub plug in for the older LibreOffice years ago. Then the built in epub export on 6.x.
It's poor compared to Save As "docx", import to Calibre and convert to epub2, then convert epub2 to azw/kf8. Using that route gives an ebook on supporting Kindles and all epub based ereaders almost identical to the deskktop view on LibreOffice. Windows or Linux makes no difference. Only the kepub is different because it seems to render margins in "points" different to "ems". Manually editing the css from points to ems (12 pt = 1em) works perfectly for kepub. LibreOffice can't do "ems", but the "points" work fine on every epub based ereader, old kindles using Mobi and later kindles using KF8, all converted from epub2 converted from the LibreOffice "docx".
However DON'T OPEN or edit the docx in LO, only edit in ODT format and do an extra "Save As" in docx as importing docx or doc to LO does a conversion.

The question is not "Can Wordperfect save in epub format" but "Can anything save Wordperfect". Lack of language support killed the original Wordstar, it was 7 bit ASCII! Then the bought in Wordstar 2000 wasn't actually compatible.
Eurdora email client died for various reasons in 2003 (that's when a lot of users inc the company I worked in then and a lot of our clients changed to Thunderbird). One major limitation was only one code page. Basically only Western / Latin / Windows text.

I'd guess the only people using WP now are people that feel locked into it.
I'd wonder too about people using IIS, DB2, Oracle Database etc on regular x86 web servers. When MS started seriously attacking Linux in 1998 (Halloween Papers) it had 5% server share on the Internet. It's now over 90% of the servers the public access and the most popular on MS's Cloud, Azure. MS uses Linux for their edge routers.
ARM licensees sell more CPUs in a week than Intel in a year, most run actual Linux or Android which apart from the GUI and app framework and VM for apps is mostly Linux.

Wordperfect is a museum piece. I was clearing the attic this last week and chucked out manuals for Apple Mac (68K ROM version) and its 800K floppy drive, 6800 assembler, Quarterdeck, Crosstalk Communicator, DOS WP and WS and many others inc discs too. Old DOS games are more worth keeping. Many even work on a phone or tablet in DosBox (and did even in 2006 on Symbian), or in Dosbox on Linux. I downloaded official Daggerfall from the developer of Morrowind/Oblivion / Skyrim. It has instructions to run it in Dosbox.

I've been using LibreOffice Writer + Calibre for actual ebooks for four years and back then stopped using MS Word on XP and was using LibreOffice on XP. I used Win7 and Win10 briefly and now only Linux Mint.

05-12-2020, 05:55 AM	#63
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,534 Karma: 108666825 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	I tried the epub plug in for the older LibreOffice years ago. Then the built in epub export on 6.x. It's poor compared to Save As "docx", import to Calibre and convert to epub2, then convert epub2 to azw/kf8. Using that route gives an ebook on supporting Kindles and all epub based ereaders almost identical to the deskktop view on LibreOffice. Windows or Linux makes no difference. Only the kepub is different because it seems to render margins in "points" different to "ems". Manually editing the css from points to ems (12 pt = 1em) works perfectly for kepub. LibreOffice can't do "ems", but the "points" work fine on every epub based ereader, old kindles using Mobi and later kindles using KF8, all converted from epub2 converted from the LibreOffice "docx". However DON'T OPEN or edit the docx in LO, only edit in ODT format and do an extra "Save As" in docx as importing docx or doc to LO does a conversion. The question is not "Can Wordperfect save in epub format" but "Can anything save Wordperfect". Lack of language support killed the original Wordstar, it was 7 bit ASCII! Then the bought in Wordstar 2000 wasn't actually compatible. Eurdora email client died for various reasons in 2003 (that's when a lot of users inc the company I worked in then and a lot of our clients changed to Thunderbird). One major limitation was only one code page. Basically only Western / Latin / Windows text. I'd guess the only people using WP now are people that feel locked into it. I'd wonder too about people using IIS, DB2, Oracle Database etc on regular x86 web servers. When MS started seriously attacking Linux in 1998 (Halloween Papers) it had 5% server share on the Internet. It's now over 90% of the servers the public access and the most popular on MS's Cloud, Azure. MS uses Linux for their edge routers. ARM licensees sell more CPUs in a week than Intel in a year, most run actual Linux or Android which apart from the GUI and app framework and VM for apps is mostly Linux. Wordperfect is a museum piece. I was clearing the attic this last week and chucked out manuals for Apple Mac (68K ROM version) and its 800K floppy drive, 6800 assembler, Quarterdeck, Crosstalk Communicator, DOS WP and WS and many others inc discs too. Old DOS games are more worth keeping. Many even work on a phone or tablet in DosBox (and did even in 2006 on Symbian), or in Dosbox on Linux. I downloaded official Daggerfall from the developer of Morrowind/Oblivion / Skyrim. It has instructions to run it in Dosbox. I've been using LibreOffice Writer + Calibre for actual ebooks for four years and back then stopped using MS Word on XP and was using LibreOffice on XP. I used Win7 and Win10 briefly and now only Linux Mint.