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Old 10-07-2026, 10:20 AM   #16
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Leave out Pages. Use a program like Word or LibreOffice and use styles. Then save as DocX and then convert to ePub with calibre.
I had never used Pages until a week ago or so, and then to copy-and-paste the TextEdit rtf file contents and images into it so as to produce an ePub output. All of that seemed to go reasonably well so I am curious as to why you suggest not using it. Is it known to have issues?

I output both ePub and pdf outputs from it and both formats seemed to be OK, so what is the problem in using it? I am not trying to be argumentative. I am truly curious.

I have downloaded LibreOffice and will install and use it, but is it really any better at producing an ePub output than Pages?
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The code from pages is not good. Even AI says to use calibre or Sigil to convert your clean source to ePub.
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The code from pages is not good. Even AI says to use calibre or Sigil to convert your clean source to ePub.
FWIW: I downloaded and installed LibreOffice and it seems pretty slick. It does export to ePub format so I am not sure why it would be better to save as a docx and then convert using Calibre, but I will give that a try as well.

Thanks for the suggestion.
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FWIW: I downloaded and installed LibreOffice and it seems pretty slick. It does export to ePub format so I am not sure why it would be better to save as a docx and then convert using Calibre, but I will give that a try as well.

Thanks for the suggestion.
I forget that LibraOffice also outputs ePub.
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Do not use Calibre for anything related to RTF. Its implementation is a placeholder.
Use any word processor to convert to an HTML- or XML-based format.
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