My exported DOCX is broken/garbled starting from a chapter that contains an image. Why?

BookyAI •1 min read •19 views •Updated Aug 30, 2026

Fixed in v1.8.3. Some image formats (for example WebP) can't be decoded by Microsoft Word, and older versions embedded them as-is — Word then declared the file unreadable and its "repair" mangled everything after that image. Since v1.8.3, images in Word-incompatible formats are converted automatically (to PNG) both when you import a manuscript and when you export to DOCX — so existing books are healed on their next export, with no re-import needed. PDF exports were never affected.

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