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Quoth · 01-30-2023, 02:17 PM

Was editing a downloaded epub (it had a copyright notice but is just text of an 1882 book and author died in 1905, no later illustrations). It was so badly messed up I decided to convert to docx and save that to disk. Except all the pages were tiny and blank. I then converted it to RTF, which worked. This was at 2.30 am (yes stupidly late or early). Perhaps the USA spelling made it copyright? It should have had British spelling, which it has now.

I've often found RTF works better than docx for export an epub to edit. I thought later am I doing something wrong in the conversion?

So I looked at docx output and it was custom size 6x9. Hovering I see it should be the page size in points, not inches! Duh! It was actually the default! Well, that was stupid!

The RTF conversion mysteriously seems to have no setting for page size, which is why it worked! It creates a Letter Size page with 72pt margins according to LO Writer import.

Why Letter (USA only surely?) rather than ISO A4, or why no output page settings either in main setup ?

01-30-2023, 02:17 PM	#1
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,145 Karma: 105211945 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Docx vs RTF Was editing a downloaded epub (it had a copyright notice but is just text of an 1882 book and author died in 1905, no later illustrations). It was so badly messed up I decided to convert to docx and save that to disk. Except all the pages were tiny and blank. I then converted it to RTF, which worked. This was at 2.30 am (yes stupidly late or early). Perhaps the USA spelling made it copyright? It should have had British spelling, which it has now. I've often found RTF works better than docx for export an epub to edit. I thought later am I doing something wrong in the conversion? So I looked at docx output and it was custom size 6x9. Hovering I see it should be the page size in points, not inches! Duh! It was actually the default! Well, that was stupid! The RTF conversion mysteriously seems to have no setting for page size, which is why it worked! It creates a Letter Size page with 72pt margins according to LO Writer import. Why Letter (USA only surely?) rather than ISO A4, or why no output page settings either in main setup ?