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KB0260: What are the limitations when importing from a Word DOCX file?

When importing from Microsoft Word, Jutoh does a reasonable job of retaining formatting, tables, boxes, images, fields and other elements. However, Jutoh is not Word and there are some limitations. Some of them are listed below.

  1. Some sequence and list numbering options are not implemented, such as ordinal and hex.

  2. Some box and image border styles are not implemented.

  3. Image transformations (such as rotation) are not implemented, so images may be imported with a different orientation than expected.

  4. Fancy text effects are not imported.

  5. Vector drawings made in Word may not be imported.

  6. Image positioning may not be preserved if not inline with text or floating left or right.

  7. Some list bullet styles may not be preserved.

  8. Bullets in paragraphs without an accompanying list style are imported, but not supported in ebook generation.

  9. Image transparency is imported, but not generally supported in ebook generation due to limitations in common ebook viewers.

  10. Index fields are plain text and do not support embedded fields (nested fields are not supported).

  11. Character spacing is not supported.

  12. Line spacing smaller than single is not supported.

  13. Right-to-left languages are not supported.

  14. Separate diacritics are not fully supported - Jutoh works better with precomposed Unicode characters that contain the diacritics.


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