iA Writer for Windows is a plain-text editor but, with a plethora of ways to export your text, it helps you produce beautiful and professional documents.
Writer for Windows lets you export a document to various formats.
Format | Notes |
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PDF | .pdf |
Universal format that’s great for sharing and for printing at a later time. Template styling is applied and locked in so you can share beautiful finished documents |
MS Word | .docx |
Widely recognized and accepted document format. Great for sharing content that will later be edited, formatted or styled in Word. |
HTML | .html |
The language of the web. Great for sharing a documents’s content to popular blogging or content management systems (CMS). |
Markdown | .md |
Unformatted, unstyled, plain-text file format which can be opened across a wide range of systems and apps. Preserves your original MD syntax so you can work with this in other Markdown editors/apps. |
You can export your file by navigating to menu: File → Export
PDF documents exported via File → Export… use the same options as File → Print…. You can directly select either A4 or Letter paper size from the PDF export dialogue box.
To change format options like adding title page, headers, or footers, go to menu: File → Preferences… → Templates.
iA Writer for Windows lets you import Microsoft Word .docx documents, and will convert basic formatting to the equivalent Writer flavored Markdown formatting. You can import .docx documents via the menu: File → Import. Then, select the .docx file you’d like to import
The following formatting can be converted when importing from or exporting to .docx files:
iA Writer Formatting | Markdown | Conversion | MS Word Formatting |
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Emphasis | * or _ | ↔ | Italics |
Importance | ** or __ | ↔ | Bold |
Underline | Doesn’t exist | ← | Underline |
Strikethrough | ~ | ↔ | Strikethrough |
Inline code | ` | → | Code character style |
Links | []() | ↔ | Hyperlinks |
Reference links | [][] | → | Hyperlinks |
Image alt text | ![…]() | → | “[…]” |
Headings | #–###### | ↔ | Heading 1-6 styles |
Unordered lists | * or - or + | ↔ | Bulleted list style |
Ordered lists | 1. | ↔ | Numbered list style |
Blockquote | > | ↔ | Quote style |
Styling: While export converts formatting (e.g. bold text) your exported document’s styling (including font, font size, colours, etc.) should be manipulated in MS Word.
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