Jutoh News

A new Jutoh for Kindle guide

Happy New Year to all! Jon Donahue has written an excellent Formatting for Kindle. This concise guide covers the basic aspects of formatting and shows off what Jutoh can do. Highly recommended.

Jutoh is now at version 1.43, with new features such as the ability to show hidden URLs in generated ODT files, the option to open a file as read-only to stop accidental edits, and various new configuration properties for fine-tuning output.

1.38 release, and a new book

We are very pleased to announce Jutoh 1.38, with new features including navigation controls for the HTML format, so you can add your book to your web site. You can see this in action here. Other features include assistance for installing Kindlegen, and better error handling (most errors can be diagnosed within Jutoh now). For a full list of changes in this release, please see What's New.

We also excited to announce a free ebook that should help you get the most out of Jutoh: Creating Great Ebooks Using Jutoh. It's packed with detailed advice on Jutoh features, how to troubleshoot problems with your book, how to install and configure Jutoh, and how to market your book once you've got it finished. Feel free to distribute this book to your friends and colleagures. The Jutoh book is of course written entirely within Jutoh, so it serves as an example of what's possible.

Jutoh on the CHIP Magazine cover disk

The November edition of CHIP Magazine carries Jutoh on its cover DVD, so we hope that with a circulation of 420,000 per month, this introduces Jutoh to a whole new set of authors.

1.17 release

Jutoh can now manage footnotes and alphabetical index entries - you can import these from an ODT file or create them within Jutoh. A new Update Book command makes it easy to update your table of contents, endnotes and index all in one go, and non-fiction authors in particular are going to save a lot of time creating these pages. Also in this release, we have horizontal rules, easy Smashwords support through a ready-made configuration, better progress dialogs, improvements in import, and various other small changes. I hope you like the new features! For a full list of changes, please see What's New.

1.12 release

I know it's only been a week since the last update, but 1.12 has loads of good stuff worth the upgrade. I'm particularly pleased with the new Epub source viewer, which can be launched after you've found errors in your Epub using EpubCheck. You can see the errors in context which should speed up diagnosis of EpubCheck's rather obscure messages. There are performance improvements and various bug fixes, and importing bookmarks and links now works in ODT. For a full list of changes, please see What's New.

1.11 release

In Version 1.11, importing from ODT and HTML has been improved, including image resizing on import, better style naming, and better HTML link import. Various other bugs have been fixed; for a full list of changes, please see What's New.

Jutoh reviewed in the Australian Financial Review

Peter Moon of the Australian Financial Review has written a nice piece about Jutoh. You need a subscription to read the article, but here's my favourite bit:

"We hit the Google trail in search of e-book enlightenment. If it wasn't for Jutoh, we'd still be in the dark."

It's good to hear about Jutoh helping people to get started with epublishing. Do let us know about your own experiences!

1.09 release

Version 1.09 sees a few new features and some important bug fixes to link functionality. If you manually added page links in Jutoh 1.08, the link is incorrectly stored in the page, causing problems in the resulting book, but in 1.09 you can correct old links simply by clicking on them and pressing OK. It's now much easier to change or remove a page link, and linked text will take the current "Internet link" character style attributes.

We've also added custom metadata, for those with more advanced metadata needs, plus some customisations for the Epub spine section.

New mailing list

There's now a mailing list, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/anthemion-writingtools, for asking technical support questions and sharing information about Jutoh. For details about how to subscribe, see the Support page.

1.07 release

We've made a lot of improvements to Version 1.07, include the ability to create your own links between sections (for example, custom contents pages), and splitting a file by title as well as style. A number of bugs affecting epubcheck verification have fixed, and HTML import has been improved. See What's New for the full list of changes.

First official release

Version 1.01 is our first official release, with an introductory pricing offer until June 15th. We enjoyed getting this far, and we hope Jutoh is a helpful addition to the world of Epub.

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