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Originally Posted by nhan
Hi all, thanks for your suggestions. I've saved them for later use if I need.
I'm unfortunately not even technical enough to understand all what you said. Have never heard about LO Writer and the format rtf and odt. I was just looking for an easy way to convert those image-rich EPUBs into PDFs.
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Libre Office is a free alternative to MS Office for Mac, Windows and Linux. I switched completely on Windows in maybe 2014.
RTF has been an option for MS Word since practically the beginning. Most other editing programs can use it:
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Rich Text Format (often abbreviated RTF) is a proprietary document file format with published specification developed by Microsoft Corporation from 1987 until 2008 for cross-platform document interchange with Microsoft products. Prior to 2008, Microsoft published updated specifications for RTF with major revisions of Microsoft Word and Office versions.
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(Wikipedia).
MS used to sell a version of UNIX when 286 came out:
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MS Word was first Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems in 1983. There was a DOS version. Then the GUI version was on the Mac. The first decent Windows version was later, Word 2.0. MS sold Xenix to Santa Cruise Operation, unrelated to later SCO litigant.
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I think Libre Office started as Star Office, which was later bought by Sun. Eventually it became Open Office. After Sun was bought by Oracle the Open Office was forked to Libre Office in 2011.
It's not quite compatible with MS Office, though imports and exports MS rtf, doc and docx. It's certainly better than Office 2007 and if you don't need to exchange MS documents that are collaborated on by MS Office users and passed back, it's better since 5.x (now at 7.x). Better than Google Docs, Scrivener, Pages and other Windows, Mac and Linux wordprocessors if you are not tied to MS Word.
Does perfect PDF export, so better and cheaper than any Adobe product unless you are making PDFs for newspaper or magazine print (Indesign).
It had decent PDF export before MS Word.
Docs are best edited as "odt" and an extra Save As in docx for MS Word or Calibre. Calibre converts a LO created docx better than odt.
The RTF is fall back solution if doc, docx or odt is messed up. Edit in Word and save docx, or in LO as odt.