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LibreOffice WriterOpen sourcereads and writes · Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
PandocOpen sourcereads and writes · GPL-2.0-or-later
PandocOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
geditOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
GNOME HelpOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
Po4aOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
GNU Source-highlightreads and writes
MediaRich Serverreads

To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
ePub Format	Pandoc	Partial	`pandoc -f docbook -t epub in.dbk -o out.epub` Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost.
Hypertext Markup Language	Pandoc	Partial	`pandoc -f docbook -t html in.dbk -o out.html` Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost.
Markdown	Pandoc	Partial	`pandoc -f docbook -t markdown in.dbk -o out.md` Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost.
Office Open XML Wordprocessing Document, ECMA-376 1st Edition	Pandoc	Partial	`pandoc -f docbook -t docx in.dbk -o out.docx` Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost.
OpenDocument	Pandoc	Partial	`pandoc -f docbook -t odt in.dbk -o out.odt` Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost.
Plain Text File	Pandoc	Partial	`pandoc -f docbook -t plain in.dbk -o out.txt` Text only: all formatting is dropped.

From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-24.