Jutoh is a Mac program that enables you to design eBooks on your Mac. This utility is packed with numerous editing options, comes with a comprehensive built-in help guide, lets you export the created eBooks to various file formats, and allows you to publish your work directly from its interface.
The application gives you access to several sample files which you can preview. Furthermore, its comprehensive help guide might prove to be of good use to people who are new to this type of programs.
Once you finish learning how the app works, you can start adding content to your project. The program lets you import text content, images, MOBI or EPUB files, etc. You have access to plenty of editing options for both page arrangement and text styles.
The project can be exported as an image, MOBI, CHM, EPUB or HTML file. Hence, the eBooks you design can be checked from Kindle devices, iPhones, Android tablets, etc. In addition, you can print pages from the created eBook directly from the main window of the program.
All in all, Jutoh proves to be a reliable solution for designing eBooks on your Mac. It's filled with plenty of useful features, is very simple to handle, and comes with an affordable price.
v1.1 [Jul 28, 2011]
- Now imports preformatted text from HTML, and preformatted XHTMLoutput can now include styled text.
- You can now insert a bookmark without first selecting text; abookmark object will be created, represented by a symbol.
- A horizontal rule object can be inserted, with some configurationavailable depending on target format.
- Importing bookmarks that do not span content is now possible (abookmark object will be created).
- Alphabetical indexes, footnotes and endnotes are now supported, with import of index entries and footnotes from ODT.
- The new Book | Update command is a convenient way to updatespecial book sections.
- Added File | Export | Images command for exporting book images toa folder.
- Now imports HTML links that have both href and id attributes, byinserting a separate bookmark symbol.
- Added Respect specified image size option to import settings inPreferences and New Project Wizard.
- Added Maximum image width configuration option, to allow forcustom image sizes in different configurations.
- Image scaling quality has been improved, and the new Maximumimage optimization width configuration option can be used to control it.Images with width equal to or smaller than this value will be doubled insize before sizing back to a smaller width, for a better result, especially with original images that are less than 400 pixels or so inwidth.
- Improved and rationalised progress dialogs, and made Jutoh moreresponsive during long tasks.
- File import now handles multiple files, and global links areresolved where possible.
- Added Special footnote formatting and Special index formattingconfiguration options, to allow switching off ODT features that wouldconfuse some applications, such as the Smashwords Meatgrinder.
- Added a Smashwords OpenDocument format option to the New ProjectWizard. This switches off special footnote and index formatting andappends _Smashwords to the ODT filename.
- Some bugs in reimport have been fixed.
- Superscript and subscript HTML support has been improved so thatthe text size is automatically scaled.
- Vetos the addition of scraps to the Content hierarchy if theyaren't book sections.
- Titles of special sections (Table of Contents, Endnotes, Index)are now subject to substitution using string tables.
