Creating a document in pages for Lulu eBooks

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Creating a document in pages for Lulu eBooks

I've been trying desperately to get a document ready for Lulu to publish in eBook format. Nothing I do seems to work. Why is a conundrum since they do not communicate with you except by email. Then they always only direct you to documents. They do not tell you what is wrong.

I think when pages 5 exports to WORD, a file format only accepted by Lulu, the styles are stripped out. I opened the WORD file I created in OpenOffice, and it was a mess.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Maybe this is one more reason that people will abandon Pages. Only problem is, compared to the WORD or Open Office interface, its a depight.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on May 4, 2014 5:08 PM

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VikingOSX

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May 4, 2014 5:54 PM in response to Parrish Jones

Why not kick OpenOffice into your Trash, and then download the current LibreOffice. More aggressive and frequent updates than OpenOffice, still supports any .odt documents that you may have created, and has competent MS Office compatibility. Others have found that documents that OpenOffice mangles are opened correctly in LibreOffice. Give it a shot.

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