Though more of an alternate format than a true substitute to paper books, e-books are now a natural part of our book collections. Jutoh provides you with all the features you need to create professional e-books in EPUB, Kindle, or HTML format in one of the most intuitive ways I’ve had the chance to try. The entire process is both straightforward and rewarding, and the tool covers all aspects of the book creation, from the cover to the table of contents, and even the accessibility for persons with a print disability.
You can import text for your book by using an existing file or group of files in Word, HTML, ODT, TXT, CBZ, and even in EPUB, in case you want to add new features or check its validity. The program will analyze what you have and will try to transform that into a readable and well-structured e-book. As usual, the quality of the output will largely depend on the quality and structure of the input, if any. However, even building new titles and subtitles or creating a table of contents from scratch are tasks that Jutoh has managed to make easy and rewarding.
The program comes with an excellent Document Cleanup tool that automates most of the otherwise more boring tasks that we normally need to perform on an imported e-book. It will look for unwanted spaces, blank lines between paragraphs, unused bookmarks, line breaks, etc., and will remove them for you. It can also remove text and background colors that we don’t need anymore, or convert bookmarks into footnotes, to name but a few.
Jutoh includes an EPUB checker that makes sure that the overall structure of the e-book is consistent and navigable in a correct way. This combines perfectly with the program’s accessibility features (a truly welcome add-on that you won’t find in more sophisticated e-book editors, by the way) and its support for SVG and MathML and the option to create a text-and-audio synchronized book using TTS and MP3. Those features will allow you to add caption tags (alternative text) to describe images and tables and will mark up the book so that its structure is coherent and logical. On the theme of images, Jutoh not only supports the most common formats but can also manage their size so that they scale in a dynamic way to the various displays and devices that we use with our e-books. It comes with a cover designer that will let you create stunning front and back covers in no time.
Jutoh includes many more utilities and features, but I’ll leave those for you to discover. Suffice it to say that all aspects of the e-book creation process have been taken into account when designing this powerful, intuitive, and highly recommended software tool.
v2.6 [Apr 3, 2017]
- Added Undo Project Properties, Redo Project Properties and Project Properties History commands to the Book menu, applying to edits to project properties including style sheets, configurations, cover designs, and string tables.
- Moved Project Properties to the end of the Book menu, in line with convention.
Added Unlimited project properties undo to Preferences/Advanced/Options to control whether just one or an infinite number of project properties commands can be undone.
- Reassigned Shift Ctrl T as the symbol insertion shortcut instead of Shift Ctrl Y.
- In fixed layout projects, if the Pages per spread option is One and pages have Single left page, Single right page values, Jutoh no longer tries to merge these pages into a full-page spread so long as the configuration option Page width matches the edited page width. If the configuration value for page width is the same as the edited page width, then it is assumed the user doesn't want merged pages but is trying to ensure only one page is shown on the display. So in this case, Pages per spread is ignored and the pages are output as separate HTML pages. Otherwise, the generated code and warnings are hard to understand.
- Inserting a text box from a menu command now shows a text box properties dialog first.
- Added logging so you can see whether fixed layout pages are being split or merged.
- Fixed a bug showing box styles in the sequence definition editor.
- Editing in a temporary location for Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and iCloud is now on by default.
- Corrected the temporary location so that it doesn't itself use a syncing folder, if the user's Documents folder is set under OneDrive, for example, as can happen in Windows 10. It will now use the local Documents folder under the current user if it exists, or the system temporary folder otherwise. The Setup Wizard now warns if your default Jutoh project location is in the cloud.
- Now avoids spurious error messages if trying to open a project file that has been deleted.
- When editing a style, if the style name was accidentally cleared, the old style name is restored to avoid an empty style name.
- When renaming a style, Jutoh no longer asks the user whether the project should be updated to reflect the style change, since this can be confusing and not doing it may result in incorrect formatting. Also, it allows undoing the command without prompting.
- When specifying a project template or style sheet template in a batch script, Jutoh now assumes that these styles should take precedence over styles in any imported document (DOCX, ODT, etc.)
- When specifying template, importstylesheet or mergestylesheet in a batch script, Jutoh will now apply the project template or style sheet when opening an existing project, not just when importing an existing document.
- Added bibliography.autobuild, index.autobuild and fields.autobuild settings to batch scripts to allow these to be automatically updated during compiling if required.
- Creating an index with Ignore accents checked now creates only one group per accented/non-accented first letter. Also, group headings are no longer bookmarked since accented group headings could cause duplicate bookmarks.
- Fixed a bug writing ODT when image objects contain names with invalid file name characters, writing invalid ODT.
- Added the number of rows to the large table warning.
- In the TOC Entries panel, you can now change the target even if the original identifier was -1.
- Fixed a NavMap duplicate play order bug (causing an EpubCheck error) when a folder points to the same HTML file as the first document within the folder.
- Fixed a bug displaying drawing objects with size attributes set.
- Fixed a bug whereby editing levels in the outline editor did not store the paragraph style correctly.
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