Jutoh - epublishing made easy
Home

The Product
Explore
Buy
Download
FAQ
What users say
Screenshots

News

Support

Jutoh Book

About Us

Contacts

Resources

Frequently Asked Questions

About Jutoh | Licensing and Support | Technical Issues

Contents

About Jutoh

Licensing and Support

Technical Issues

About Jutoh

Who should use Jutoh?

Jutoh is suitable for creating ebooks for books with relatively simple formatting requirements. So, it's great for novels, self-improvement books, biographies, and so on, but not so good for mathematics textbooks.

What platforms are supported by Jutoh?

Unlike most software, Jutoh is cross-platform and runs on all popular operating systems. So if you're thinking of switching platform in the future, you don't have to worry about your investment and files becoming obsolete. This is particularly important now that Linux is becoming a popular choice for ultra-portables. If you want, you can install the Windows, Mac and Linux versions on a USB memory key and switch machines as much you like, retaining all your settings. Specifically, we support:

  • All recent 32-bit desktop Microsoft Windows platforms - that's Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above (PowerPC and Intel processors).
  • Most Linux distributions (32-bit or 64-bit). Debian, RPM and tarball packages are provided.
  • FreeBSD 6 and 7.

We no longer support Windows 95/98/ME due to these systems' limitations for more complex applications. Instead, you can install Linux on your older machine for free.

What hardware is required by Jutoh?

Hardware requirements are modest: a high colour video card, 512MB RAM, 30MB hard disk space, and for the boxed product, a CD-ROM drive. If you have the CD-ROM but no access to a CD-ROM drive, you can use the download version together with the registration information on your CD box. Or, you can copy the CD-ROM files to a memory key (512MB or greater).

What tools were used to develop Jutoh?

Built with wxWidgets Jutoh is programmed with the popular open source cross-platform GUI toolkit, wxWidgets, created in 1992 by Anthemion Software director, Julian Smart. Dialogs are edited with Anthemion's DialogBlocks. wxWidgets and DialogBlocks are being used by organisations large and small all over the world, the more exotic applications including space telescope control, science at the South Pole, genetic research, Formula One racing, and hunting for extra-terrestrial life.

Licensing and Support

How much does Jutoh cost?

Please see the purchase page for pricing information.

Will upgrades be free?

Upgrades and bug fixes for each major version of Jutoh will be free. You can download new versions of Jutoh as many times as you like. We will make a small upgrade charge for major new versions, usually denoted by a change to the first version number.

Do I pay for each operating system I run Jutoh on?

Each separate user must buy a separate copy, one copy each. But if you want to run Jutoh on both Windows and Linux, for example, then you only pay once. The licence is not tied to a particular operating system.

What are the restrictions of the demo?

The demo is restricted to 20 documents, generated chapters have the line "CREATED BY JUTOH" at the top, and there are occasional registration reminders.

Can I use the same registration key for Jutoh both at home and at work?

Absolutely. You can use the same registered copy of Jutoh on multiple machines so long as only one copy is being used at a time.

How do I register to unlock the demo?

Run Jutoh and click on the Help menu, followed by Register Jutoh. Now find the user name and registration key that you were sent when you paid for Jutoh. Copy and paste (or type) the information into the user name and registration key fields, and press OK. (Note that any '0' characters in the registration key are zeros, and not letter 'O's.) Your copy of Jutoh should now be registered.

What do I do if Jutoh doesn't accept my registration key?

Normally this is due to a typo. The most reliable method is to use copy and paste to transfer the user name and key (on Windows: select the text in the email, then Ctrl-C, then Ctrl-V in the registration dialog). If typing manually, please note that there are no letter Os in the key: only zeros. If your user name contains an accent, this could be a cause of registration failure. In this case, please email us for another user name and key. If all else fails, please email jutoh@anthemion.co.uk for further help. If you're using Windows I can create a registry file for you to run that usually solves the problem.

Note that if you want to register with a different key, and the registration dialog is not available, you will need to reset the applications as detailed below.

What do I do if I've lost my registration key?

Email jutoh@anthemion.co.uk and we'll find your key. Please quote your order reference number, name and preferably the email address you used when ordering Jutoh.

What happens to my work if I uninstall Jutoh before upgrading?

If you created new files, they won't be deleted even if they were saved in the Jutoh program folder (except on Linux and Mac, where uninstalling means deleting the whole program folder). Your application settings will be preserved too.

How can I get support?

Please email us at jutoh@anthemion.co.uk if the Jutoh help and FAQ don't answer your query.

Are you responsive to suggestions?

Yes! Anthemion Software is a small, friendly company and we are delighted to receive feedback from our users. We strive to build the best-of-breed tools so getting back 'reports from the field' helps us to serve you better. A lot of customer suggestions make it into future versions of Jutoh.

Is there an affiliate programme?

Yes; if you sign into Plimus as an affiliate you can find "Jutoh - Full Download" (product 1943746). If you can't find it, try searching for Anthemion in the Plimus catalogue. Once set up, when visitors go to your site and then buy Jutoh, a percentage will go into your Plimus account.

Technical Issues

The OpenOffice.org Writer desktop icon isn't working. How do I fix it?

Jutoh may add a desktop item for OpenOffice.org Writer that doesn't initially work, if the application isn't installed or it guesses the location wrongly. First, check your system to see if OpenOffice.org is installed. It's not distributed with Jutoh since it's very large (though it is available on the Jutoh CD-ROM). You can download it from www.openoffice.org.

Once you have OpenOffice.org installed, you can fix the desktop command. Right-click on the OpenOffice.org Writer icon on the Jutoh desktop, choose Properties, click on the Location text box, and clear it. Now click on Browse and find the OpenOffice.org or swriter program. On a Windows system the command might be: 

"C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\soffice.exe"  -writer
On Mac, it might be: 
/Application/OpenOffice.org.app

(The .app extension must be present on Mac.) Now click on OK, and OpenOffice.org should launch when you double-click the shortcut.

Why does kindlegen (Mobipocket output) fail on Mac OS X?

The kindlegen application likes to be directly under the /Applications folder and will fail if not there. Make sure you install it in this folder. Also, don't use Jutoh from the automatic volume that was created when you downloaded Jutoh - drag it somewhere permanent, such as /Applications, or Kindlegen may fail when trying to open temporary files.

How do I reset Jutoh?

On rare occasions, for example if one of the Jutoh components starts behaving strangely, you may wish to try resetting the application back to the installation state. First try removing the application preferences, and then if necessary the folder containing the application data, such as report templates, sample files, toolbar customization and other data that may be saved by Jutoh between sessions. Note that by removing the application data you will lose some of the customizations you have made, though not your project data.

How you achieve reset Jutoh differs according to operating system. First, quit Jutoh.

On Microsoft Windows, to reset the application preferences, you need to delete the relevant registry entries.

  1. click the Windows Start button, click on Run, type regedit and hit the return (enter) key.
  2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Anthemion Software, and select the Jutoh entry. Press the Del key and confirm the deletion.
  3. Quit regedit.

This deletes the preferences. You can optionally delete the application data that Jutoh stores, by navigating to \Documents and Settings\<your user name>\Application Data and deleting the folder Jutoh. Note that the Application Data folder may be hidden unless you have enabled Show hidden files and folders in the Folder Options dialog (available from Tools | Folder Options in Windows Explorer).

On Linux, you need to remove the file ~/.Jutoh, and optionally, the application data folder ~/.JutohData.

On Mac OS X, you need to remove the file /Users/<your user name>/Library/Preferences/Jutoh Preferences. Using Finder, you can click on the Home icon and then navigate to Library/Preferences, from where you can delete the Jutoh Preferences file. You can optionally delete the folder /Users/<your user name>/Library/Application Support/Jutoh.

What is the PortableApps.com version of Jutoh?

PortableApps.com provides a way to install Windows applications on a USB drive to allow them to be run on any Windows machine, saving settings and data to the USB drive. Jutoh is available in a .paf.exe installer that is compatible with PortableApps.com and allows easy integration with your existing PortableApps.com applications. To use it, download the .paf.exe installer to a temporary location on your desktop hard drive and then from the PoprtableApps.com Options menu, choose 'Install a New App' and select the .paf.exe file. Follow the instructions, and the Jutoh icon will appear on the PortableApps.com menu.

Note that this method is in addition to the portability built into Jutoh. Normally you install Jutoh to a USB drive by invoking the Mobile Preferences dialog from the View menu, and then clicking on 'Install Jutoh on External Drive' (see the appropriate FAQ. This installs the application using locations and conventions that differ from those employed by PortableApps.com, and allows you to use multiple platforms (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X). But if you only use Windows, the PortableApps.com method may be preferable since it comes with a set of free applications and can be used to launch Jutoh as well.

The regular and PortableApps.com installers both contain the same version of Jutoh, but with a different directory layout. The PortableApps.com version includes a startup.cnf file that tells Jutoh where to look for its data, and that an external drive is being used.

Can I store my Jutoh data files on a USB drive?

Yes, you can store your own data files, and Jutoh settings, on an external drive. You can do this without any change to Jutoh's preferences but it's easier if you configure the application to look on an external drive and if appropriate, store settings on this drive.

To do this, go to the View menu and select Mobile Preferences. On this dialog, check Store your data on the external drive and (recommended), Store all settings on an external drive. Click OK and restart the application. Jutoh will now prompt you to enter the name of the external drive, for data and settings. It's useful to store the settings on the drive so that it can remember what files to load automatically, regardless of what machine you're currently using, but if you sometimes wish to use Jutoh without the external drive connected, then don't check this option.

Note that until you explicitly open files on the external drive and restart the application, Jutoh will probably have loaded the last files from the computer's hard drive. So you need to be careful that you are really editing the files you think you are editing. It's handy to type Alt+Enter to see the location of the current file.

This FAQ has dealt with storing only data and/or settings on the external drive. See the next FAQ for how to run the program itself from the external drive, in addition to settings and data files.

How do I run Jutoh from a USB drive?

You can install Jutoh to a USB drive by first installing it on your computer as normal. Then, go to the View menu and select Mobile Preferences. On this dialog, click on Install Jutoh on External Drive. This installs the application to the USB drive so that you can switch machines and Jutoh will use settings and data stored on the USB drive.

If you're using different operating systems (for example two or more of Windows, Linux and Mac OS X), do this installation on each operating system that you are using. Your shared settings and documents will be used regardless of operating system.

If you will only be using Windows, consider using the PortableApps.com installer as mentioned in the previous FAQ.

On Linux, you may find that you don't have execute permission on the external drive, particularly if the drive is formatted with a Windows file system such as FAT32. In this case, you need to mount the drive with different options, and you can do that by editing the file /etc/fstab as root. You should add a line that tells the system to use special options. Here's an example:

/dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk vfat rw,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=1000,user,auto,exec 0 0

To find out the device name and mount point (the first two entries in this file), insert your drive and when automounted, type mount in a terminal window. You should see an entry for the external drive. The exec option causes all files on the drive to be seen as executable, and auto causes the drive to be mounted automatically when the device is inserted.

It's worth remembering that USB drives can easily be lost, and data corrupted more easily, so remember to back up frequently to a hard drive or other external drive. Also, use the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon or equivalent operating system functionality before removing any external drive.

For more details, please see the topic Using Jutoh with an external drive, under Topics/Miscellaneous topics in the manual. It explains how you can configure Jutoh to run from your computer's regular hard drive but take settings from the USB drive, as an alternative to complete installation on the USB drive.

How can I synchronize files between multiple computers?

Jutoh doesn't directly support synchronization of files, but you can use a USB drive as above, or you could use an internet backup service with synchronization, for example:

Does Jutoh run on 64-bit Windows Vista and Windows 7?

Yes; although Jutoh is provided as a 32-bit Windows executable, it runs fine on 64-bit Vista and Windows 7.

Does Jutoh run on both Intel and PowerPC Macs?

Jutoh for Mac OS X is a universal binary and runs on both Intel and PPC machines.

On Mac OS X, why does kindlegen fail with the message "cannot create the temp file"?

You probably didn't install Jutoh properly - you may still be running it from the read-only disk image that you got after you downloaded the .dmg file and opened it. You need to drag the Jutoh application to a suitable folder, such as /Applications, and then when you run Jutoh again kindlegen will be able to create a temporary file. If Jutoh is already installed correctly then you need to check that the kindlegen application is placed directly in /Applications since users report that it won't run correctly unless in this folder.

On Mac OS X, I can't save to certain filenames. What's the problem?

You may have accented characters in your filename; try choosing a name with no accents.

On Mac OS X, how can I improve small text display?

If you see badly spaced text for small fonts, you can switch on antialiasing (smoothing) for these fonts. Go to the Mac OS X System Preferences, click on Appearance, and in the item Turn off text smoothing for font sizes ... and smaller, select 8. Now fonts at 9 point and above will use antialiasing which vastly improves spacing, and gives dialogs a more consistent look too.

How do I install Jutoh on Linux?

Jutoh supports three distribution methods under 32-bit Linux:

  • Debian package (.deb);
  • RPM package (.rpm);
  • Tarball (.tar.gz).

Each of these methods will install suitable desktop entries and MIME types, adding a menu entry to the KDE or GNOME menu in the Office or Word Processor group. Jutoh will also be available by typing jutoh in a terminal window. The application is normally installed to /usr/share/jutoh, and the 'jutoh' startup script to /usr/bin.

Debian packages

To install a .deb, you may be able to simply double-click it in the file manager. If this doesn't work, you can use the dpkg command-line tool. Type something like the following in a terminal window:

dpkg -i jutoh_1.00-1_i386.deb

You need to have root permissions to do this, so either type su followed by the root password, or prefix the command with sudo and type your own password when prompted.

If you get a message saying that the package architecture doesn't match the target architecture, but you know that the architectures are compatible (for example AMD64 versus x86_64) you can use the --force-architecture flag to force an install.

To remove the package, use:

dpkg -r jutoh

See also the instructions for installation on an Eee PC.

RPM packages

To install an RPM package, you may be able to simply double-click it in the file manager. If this doesn't work, you can use the rpm command-line tool. Type something like the following in a terminal window:

rpm -i jutoh-1.00-1.i386.rpm

You need to have root permissions to do this, so either type su followed by the root password, or prefix the command with sudo and type your own password when prompted.

To upgrade the package (if an existing one is already installed), use -U instead of -i.

To remove the package, use:

rpm -e jutoh

See also the instructions for installation on an Aspire One running Linpus.

Tarballs

The tarball method is the only one currently supported on FreeBSD. With this method, you run a script in a terminal and you will be prompted to install either system-wide or locally. If installing system-wide, you may wish to login as super user (type su) or run the script with sudo, for example sudo ./installjutoh.

First, unarchive Jutoh-x.yz.tar.gz to a suitable location in your filesystem. This will create two files, JutohData.tar.gz and installjutoh. Run installjutoh and follow the instructions: it will install Jutoh in one directory, and a script 'jutoh' in another, so you can invoke Jutoh without having to set the JUTOHDIR environment variable. The script will install the appropriate MIME types and desktop entries, and if installed locally, will also add a Jutoh icon to your desktop.

With the tarball method, you can uninstall by running the uninstalljutoh-x.yz script generated by the installation process.

How do I install Jutoh on an Eee PC running Xandros?

Jutoh has been adapted for the Eee PC screen, and installation is easy on a standard Eee PC setup running Xandros.

  1. Using your web browser, download the .deb archive and save to My Documents.

  2. Either:

    1. Navigate to My Documents using the File Manager (available from the Work tab).

    2. Right-click on the Jutoh .deb file and select Install DEB File.

    3. When prompted, enter the password you gave when first setting up your Eee PC.

    4. Wait for confirmation that the installation worked.

    Or:

    1. Open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T.

    2. Type these two lines: 
        cd My\ Documents
  sudo dpkg -i jutoh_1.00-1_i386.deb

      Substitute the correct file name for the name given above, depending on the version downloaded. To save typing, you can use command completion: for example, type cd My and then press the Tab key for the rest of the line to appear.

  3. Now Jutoh should be installed. If the Jutoh icon has not appeared in the Work tab, you need to quit any running applications and reboot, or restart the desktop by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

Click on the Work tab and then on the Jutoh icon, waiting a few seconds for the application to appear.

If you are running the full KDE desktop, the procedure is much the same as above, but the icons will appear automatically in the Office or Word Processor menu group.

To help you make the most of the Eee PC screen, Jutoh has a full-screen mode. Press F11; press the key again to get back to normal mode. You may need to click on an application window first if the key appears not to be working.

On some systems (German Eee PCs in particular), the .deb installation fails during dependency checking. If the .deb package doesn't install properly, please use the tarball version (.tar.gz) and install as per the general instructions for Linux. If possible, install using sudo installjutoh and choose system-wide installation.

How do I install Jutoh on an Aspire One netbook running Linpus?

Jutoh runs on the Aspire One running Linpus Linux. Here's how to install it:

  1. Using your web browser, download the .rpm archive and save to (for example) Desktop.

  2. The easy way to install the archive is to simply open the file in the Download dialog. Or, to install it with rpm if you have saved the file, open a terminal window by going to Files/My Documents, clicking on the File menu and selecting Terminal.

    In the terminal, type these two lines: 

      cd Desktop
  sudo rpm -i jutoh-1.00-1.i386.rpm
    (use -U instead of -i if upgrading from an older version). Substitute the correct file name for the name given above, depending on the version downloaded. To save typing, you can use command completion: for example, type sudo rpm -i wr and then press the Tab key for the rest of the line to appear.

  3. It is now possible to run Jutoh from the terminal window using the command jutoh, but to have the icon appear in the Home screen you need to do a bit of fiddling. In the next part, we will edit the file .config/xfce4/desktop/group_app.xml to add a launch icon for Jutoh.

    1. Run OpenOffice.org Writer, and type Ctrl+O or click File/Open to show the file open dialog.
    2. Double-click on linpus so we're in our home directory.
    3. Click on the top-left icon to show a box for entering file names.
    4. In the box, type .config (return) - the preceding dot is important - and then double-click on xfce4, then on desktop, then on group_app.xml to open this file.
    5. Type Ctrl+F to get the Find dialog, and enter Work.desktop (return) to find the line before the one we wish to enter.
    6. Go to the end of that line, press (return), and type:

      <app sequence="7">/usr/share/applications/jutoh.desktop</app>

      where "7" is one more than the last number you find in this group, i.e. it's the next available number. (Each number represents a position in the icon grid, and should not be used by more than one icon entry.)

    7. Save the file, and quit Writer.
    8. Reboot (or in a terminal window, type xfdesktop-simple --reload). You should now see Jutoh in the Work tab, and you can launch Jutoh by clicking on it.

  4. Alternatively, instead of adding an icon as above, you can enable the right-click application menu and Jutoh will automatically appear in the Office group. To enable the menu, type xfce-setting-show in a terminal window to see the control panel. Click on Desktop, then Desktop Preferences, and enable 'Show desktop menu on right click'. Close the settings panel and the terminal window, and now you can right click to show the application menu. Click on Office and then Jutoh. For more information on this, please see this page from The Register.

If you are running a full KDE or GNOME desktop, you only need to do steps 1-3, and the icons will appear automatically in the Office or Word Processor menu group.

To help you make the most of the small Aspire One screen, Jutoh has a full-screen mode. Press F11; press the key again to get back to normal mode. You may need to click on an application window first if the key appears not to be working.

How do I install Jutoh on gOS (used on Cloudbook and Sylvania netbooks)?

Just click on the Linux Debian package link on the Download page, and choose to open the .deb in the GDebi Package Installer. Then click on Install Package in the Installer. When installation has completed, Jutoh will now be available from the Applications/Office and Applications/Education menu groups.

If your gOS is running the 'wbar' launch dock (usually positioned at the bottom of the screen), you can follow these steps to add a Jutoh icon:

  1. Run wbar_util from the command line or from the Programs menu, under Accessories.
  2. Add a new item (+).
  3. Click on 'unnamed' and enter the title Jutoh.
  4. Add glaunch jutoh.desktop to the Command field.
  5. Add /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/jutoh.png to the Icon field.
  6. Click on the Settings icon (depicted as sliders) and make sure wbar will run on login, and that the option for -above-desk is also checked.
  7. Quit wbar_util, saving when prompted.
  8. Reboot.

Alternatively, edit the text file /home/<user>/.wbar and add these lines: 

i /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/jutoh.png
t Jutoh
c glaunch jutoh.desktop

Note: gOS is shipped with different dock implementations depending on version, so the above instructions may not work with all systems. Please let us know what your system uses so we can update this section.

What are the workarounds for Jutoh not running correctly on Linux?

If there is a crash on startup or buttons and other graphical elements are not displaying correctly, there may be a conflict with a specific theme. In particular, the Elegant-Gnome theme set and Elegant-AwOken icon set on Ubuntu are known to cause problems. Please change the theme or just the icon set.

On SuSE 11.3 with KDE, the default GTK+ compatibility theme OxygenMolecule has a conflict with the application's PNG library. Choose another theme in System Settings/GTK Styles and Fonts, for example Clearlooks.

If you find that the application menu is not showing, you can work around it using one of the following methods:

  1. Use the appmenu or globalmenu as a panel menu by adding it to the panel; or
  2. remove the appmenu and globalmenu packages from the system: sudo apt-get remove appmenu-gtk. Disable the Ubuntu menu proxy with sudo gedit /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80appmenu and comment out the single line by inserting a hash character at the start, thus:
    #export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY="libappmenu.so"; or
  3. in a terminal window, type export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0; jutoh

How can I improve printing under Ubuntu 9.10 and above?

Some Linux distributions don't install a library that Jutoh needs, so please go to the Synaptic Package Manager and install the libgnomeprintui2.2-0 package. Without this, only a fall-back PostScript printer will be used, and it will not be possible to select alternate printers.

On Windows, why does Jutoh not always find Adobe Acrobat Reader?

Sometimes there is a problem with the PDF file association, resulting in advice from Jutoh, despite the fact that Reader is installed on your system and PDF files can be launched from Explorer. This is caused by the absence of certain registry keys and can usually be fixed by re-installing Acrobat Reader.

If the problem persists, you can still read the PDF files by locating them on your system either from within Explorer or from the Reader file dialog.

On Windows, why does Launch not find Sony Reader Library?

On some versions of Windows such as Vista, Sony Reader Library doesn't install the correct registry entries and Jutoh can't find it as the default Epub reader. You can fix this as follows.

Run regedit (e.g. from the Windows/Search box) and go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.epub (that's dot epub). Click on it and enter the string "epubfile" without quotes into the Default value. That should be all you need, since the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\epubfile entry appears to be written by Reader. (Jutoh searches for the application to use by default by first looking at the .epub entry, then following its value to the epubfile entry, which has information about how to launch the app.)

Why do Jutoh and Windows explorer sometimes use different shortcuts?

When you choose a document in a shortcut and launch it, sometimes the application that opens the document is not the one you expected (or the one used by Windows Explorer). This is because you have overridden the standard associations with different associations in Explorer - but this is not reflected in the basic association that Jutoh uses.

You can fix this by making the association more pervasive. In Explorer (while browsing a drive, for example), go to the Tools menu and select Folder Options. Click on the File Types tab and scroll down to the extension you're interested in. Click on the extension. If there is button Restore, click it, and it will change to Advanced. Now click on Advanced and you will be able to select the application you want to associate with the extension. Click on open in the list of actions, and then click on Edit. Enter the program path in the second text field. If you browse for it, don't forget to add %1 to the end, to represent the data file to be opened. Press OK to confirm the changes, and then OK again to confirm the association changes.

You may wish to make a note of the original settings in case you want to restore them.

Why does HTML/Epub import not preserve all my styles?

Jutoh only parses a subset of CSS (the style information provided with HTML and Epub), so if the original file has complex formatting, you may need to edit the styles and/or text after import. It is recommended that you import from ODT if possible.

Why does ODT import ignore some images?

When some images are pasted into OpenDocument files (instead of inserting from a file), or the file is converted from another format, OpenOffice saves the images in an obscure and little-used format (SVM, or StarView Metafile). Unfortunately Jutoh (and all image conversion applications that I know of) cannot convert this file, and so there will be a warning message during import. The workaround is to paste the images into Jutoh after import. Also you may have greater success if you insert the images into OpenDocument from files instead pasting from the clipboard.

Does Jutoh support encryption/DRM?

Jutoh does not add any encryption for Digital Rights Management. By its nature, DRM has to be integrated with the distribution and sale of a book and therefore must be performed by the publishing system, for example the Amazon Kindle publishing site, Apple iBooks via iTunes, or Smashwords. None of these book submission systems can take an encrypted book from the user, so encryption in Jutoh would be of little use. Encryption should only be a concern if you intend to distribute the book yourself. In that case, you can use a service such as Plimus that can serve up a link to the ebook file after payment, from its own servers, so that the book is not freely available.

Whether a book is protected from clipboard copying is down to the reader software, there's nothing in the generated ebook files that can determine this.

In general I advise authors to stop worrying about encryption/DRM and simply add a request in their book for the reader to not distribute the book. This will discourage a good proportion of people from breaking the law. But a little piracy is good for publicity anyway. Note also that most readers hate DRM since it prevents them from reading the book that they bought on different readers. So you can make a lack of DRM into a selling point.

Does Jutoh support justification?

Yes; it just doesn't show up in the Jutoh editor. You can set the alignment to Justified in the properties for a named paragraph style, via the Project Properties dialog (click Edit on the toolbar). Then apply this style to one or more paragraphs. It won't appear justified within Jutoh but it will appear justified in ebooks where supported (not all readers support justification).

How can I improve formatting after importing from ODT?

If you imported from an ODT file and you need to make improvements to formatting spacing, indentation and so on, make sure you have applied consistent named styles throughout. If you have used ad-hoc formatting in your original file instead of a consistent set of named styles, then this poor formatting will also be imported. You can tell if you have used ad-hoc formatting by clicking on a paragraph and observing if the style in the toolbar shows a long name containing "+" symbols. Instead, decide what styles you need, go into the Project Properties, click on the Styles tab, and edit or create styles that reflect the formatting you need. Apply these styles to the paragraphs in your document. Then, if you need to make changes to the whole document, you can edit the style definitions and not every single relevant paragraph in your entire book. It may seem a hassle to set this up, but it will save you aggravation and time in the long run.

Note that you can save time applying styles to your document by assigning shortcuts to named styles. Press Ctrl+. to start defining some new shortcuts.

What do I do if Jutoh complains about missing styles?

Jutoh will tell you during book compilation if you have paragraphs or objects that use styles that are not in your style sheet. You might have deleted the original styles from your style sheet, for example, or you may have copied and pasted styles using an earlier version of Jutoh that didn't copy the styles. If named styles are missing, you can choose another style from the drop-down style list in the editor, or you can recreate the style in the style sheet, in Project Properties. If automatic styles are missing, you can normally trigger their recreation by reapplying the styles either to the existing content, or to some dummy content that you subsequently delete.

Back to the top

© 2012 Anthemion Software Ltd.