For those unfamiliar with it, the Tome of Magic is just a collection of additional spells and magic items for AD&D2e, and it also expands the clerical spheres and what-have-you.
However, the scans from which the PDF has been assembled are not great — they're rather soft, and they're washed out. I could print it, but the results wouldn't be fantastic.
I also have it in RTF format, I think from a CD-ROM that was published some time back in the Dark Ages, so I thought I would just reformat that in LibreOffice and print it that way. I wouldn't get any of the graphics, but to be frank the illustrations in the original weren't all that great anyway, and it's the information I'm primarily interested in.
So I did that, and a mighty labour it turned out to be. Maybe not a mighty labour, as such, but a labour nonetheless.
I thought that I would do all the basic text styling in LibreOffice and then the final layout in Affinity, but Affinity's collaboration with word processor output is erratic, to say the least. It doesn't believe in LibreOffice's .ODF format at all, and it crashes instantly if I try to import .DOCX. It will accept .RTF, and it also imports all the text styles information, but doesn't actually apply it to any of the text, so I'd have to go right through the whole document and reapply styles to everything.
At that point I lost the will to live, and decided to just print straight from the LibreOffice output.
Once that's done, the actual binding will be pretty straightforward. I've done a few books now, and I know more or less what I'm about there.