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.
v1.5 [May 30, 2012]
- Added a French translation thanks to Véran Desjardins.
- Added Edit | Copy Documents command to copy multiple documents from another loaded project.
- Added configuration options "HTML top margin", "HTML bottom margin" and now generates @page instead of body margins.
- Fixed a bug whereby some Kindlegen errors were only reported in Verbose mode.
- No longer prepends "dc:" to new custom metadata elements.
- Fixed a bug whereby incorrect registration was reported as correct.
- Added configuration option "Styles suppressing hyphenation" to generate CSS to suppress hyphenation in Epubs where possible. By default, headings suppress hyphenation.
- Fixed a crash bug when clicking on an object that no longer contains an image.
- Now generates @media queries for Mobipocket generation to allow some formatting to work on both KF7 and KF8 devices, for example hanging indents.
- If you use a font substitution that contains a standard font family identifier, such as serif, Jutoh will now only write the identifier once, for example font-family: serif. This way you can make the ebook independent of a specific font, or independent of certain fonts, on a per-configuration basis.
- Added "Prompt for document deletion" control in Preferences/Project, and tidied up the Project settings page layout.
- Fixed a bug whereby the data for a font or media document was not deleted from the project when the document was deleted. Existing projects can be cleaned up via Preferences/Project/Project Maintenance/Records/Delete Orphans, then compacting.
- On Windows, if there is a crash but Jutoh could not automatically create an email, Jutoh will show the folder containing the debugging information.
- Now warns if important metadata was absent, to avoid problems further along in the publication process.
- Fixed a problem showing hints for some errors when a non-English language was selected.
- When writing images to ODT, now takes account of image names to avoid saving duplicates.
- Improved ODT nested text style import.
- Improved ODT superscript and subscript import where text position is specified as a percentage.
- Fixed ODT style import to take into account explicit 'normal' italic and weight settings instead of assuming default (inherited) values.
- Fixed a redundant space after images in ODT generation.
- Improved the detection of section titles in split-by-page.
- In automatic Kindle Previewer configuration from the Setup Wizard (Windows only), Jutoh now always adds a Kindle Previewer command but disables it if the default .mobi file association is already Kindle Previewer.
- Added Jutoh Plus edition with scripting.
