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1. should take just a few minutes Don worry il looks like a lot of steps not all steps will be applicable depending on your Choices in previous steps and in several cases you Can click on to the next step wath miremal or no changes When trying out Jutoh you can make use of the sample text and OOT files im the Jutoh Samples directory which you can find under your documents directory or under the installateon directory depending on platform Step 1 Show the New Project Wizard lt Maximized help within the Jutoh window highlighting the window management buttons Most Jutoh dialogs have a Help button which shows the relevant help in a further dialog and not in the main help window so you don t have to return from the dialog to see the help Also you can use the F1 key to get help on the control that currently has the focus on Windows you will often see a little question mark icon at the top of a dialog You can click that and then on a control to see a tip explaining the purpose of the control On the main window only you can use the Help Describe Window command and then click on a window to show a tip with explanation about the window with a link to click for more information Project properties dialog You ll be using this dialog a lot because it allows you to edit all sorts of project information including metadata the description of the book formatting styles the cover design and using configurations
2. 43 single text file Jutoh will take you to a wizard page that lets you choose criteria for splitting up the file You may wish to edit your original text file to make it easier for Jutoh to split it into sections for example labelling each chapter Chapter or adding a separator between chapters such as The steps for importing text are mostly the same as for ODT above the main difference being the Single Text File Import page that appears after you have chosen your text file New Project Single Text File Import Choose a pattern that wal identify divisions between chapters Use vakicards and 7 to match any number of characters or one character Chapter identification pattern The matched ine is the chapter heading C Remove ines matching pattern O The next line is the chapter heading Import encoding O There i no chapter heading Unicode 8 bit UTF 8 1 of 4matches found Please review to check they are correct Preview Chapter 1 In my job I miz with some very funny people They don t know they re funny and f they did the realisation mught change them it might make them behave with blandness or with exaggerated eccentncity And that would really spoil my other job When I m not tending to my eccentrics I write No man could have better Update Preview oe eee ee Splitting a text file In this page you can specify a pattern to identify the start of chapters including asterisks to deno
3. PDF is a popular format for complex fixed layout documents but is not ideal for devices with small screens and the ability to choose text size which requires the ability to reflow the document Jutoh can create OpenDocument Text ODT files which can then be turned into PDF for example using the File Export as PDF command in OpenOffice org Writer or LibreOffice Writer You can view the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader or Adobe Digital Editions ADE On Windows you can force the document to be viewed in ADE by using Open With in Windows Explorer s context menu or you can drag the document to ADE When displayed in Adobe Digital Editions a PDF containing bookmarks will show a table of contents in the left hand pane From version 1 52 Jutoh will generate styles with the required outline information if they are specified in the named styles and then OpenOffice org Writer or LibreOffice Writer will be able to save the bookmarks for the headings in the document For this to work you will need to make sure that Heading 1 has its outline set to 1 Heading 2 has an outline of 2 and so on And of course you will need to be using these styles in your project The outline setting can be found on the Indents amp Spacing tab of the Jutoh style editor dialog You can switch off outline output using the Use outline levels configuration property for example if your document doesn t use heading styles consistently and it would create a poor
4. behaviour specific to each format that you wish to generate You can show this dialog using the Edit button on the toolbar or the View Project Properties menu command or the Alt Enter keyboard shortcut 29 Project Properties Metadata Cover Styles Indexes Configurations Identifier Creating Great Ebooks Using Jutoh Assets Strings Author Julien Smart Law Date 2012 Options Info Contributor s Document Book ttle Creating Great Ebooks Using Jutoh Language en Publisher Anthemion ss Website http www anthemion co uk Subject Non fiction Description 4 guide to creating ebooks for Kindle iBooks Sony readers and more using the utoh ebook creation software from Anthemion Software Edk Custom Metadata a Ce 2 Project Properties dialog Customising the user interface These are the main options for tailoring Jutoh to your preferred way of working Close windows use the X button to close panels such as the Organizer Control Panel or Log Window Show them again from commands on the View menu Rearrange tabs windows drag a tab to the left top right or bottom of the window associated with the tab to split the tabbed area and see more information at once These changes won t be restored on restarting Jutoh Add or remove toolbar buttons right click on a toolbar to get the customise dialog or use View Customise Toolbars Add or change keyboard shortcuts for menu
5. t as you wish instead of editing the formatting within the editor first try editing the style sheet since this will affect the whole document if named styles have been applied consistently For example suppose that the first paragraph in each section uses the style Body Text which is not indented You may wish the first paragraph of each section to be indented so you could either change the style for each such paragraph or you could adjust the definition for Body Text to match the indentation of Body Text First Indent For Epub and Mobipocket formats Jutoh generates a Cascading Style Sheet CSS that contains HTML equivalent definitions for the Jutoh style sheets Kinds of style Jutoh supports three kinds of named style e Paragraph style This kind of style applies to an individual paragraph and you can see available paragraph styles in the drop down control above the editor e Character style This kind of style changes the formatting for a span of text within a paragraph You can apply character styles using the context right click menu choosing Styles and then Character Styles There s no drop down control for character styles but to see the named style at the current text position you can use the Edit Find Styles command to show the Find Styles dialog and navigate through the text Any named style will be shown in the dialog e List style This kind of style defines how list items are formatted at each de
6. will have margins around it this is due to the fact that the Nook controls the margins although you switch between several sizes in the Nook settings The Barnes amp Noble Nook Kids fixed layout format is very non standard requires a non disclosure agreement from Barnes amp Noble and is unlikely to be supported by Jutoh but regular reflowable Epubs are fine on the Nook To test your files using the Nook Android app use a file manager app to copy the Epub file to the Nook My Documents folder on the memory card The book will then appear when you next run the Nook app On the PC version of Nook go to My Stuff and then Add Item and add your book Kobo Kobo uses the Epub format again you can get your books on their site via Smashwords or directly via the Kobo Writing Life site Kobo has free apps for most smartphones tablets and desktop operating systems and sells its own ebook readers At the time of writing there are no known issues with Kobo s Epub implementation that require special consideration Conveniently Kobo uses the same fixed layout Epub file format as used by Apple s iBooks When generating for Nook switch off Generate iBooks XML in your Epub configuration or the file may be rejected It s not clear whether the XML file can be included in iBooks compatible fixed layout Kobo books It s difficult to test ebooks with the desktop Kobo reader applications on Mac or PC since they don t accept arbit
7. BookId gt 1234567891012 lt de identifier gt Cancel Help The Element Editor dialog Some attributes have a convenient list of options at present these are e opf scheme in the Identifier element e opf role in the Author element e Value in the Language element Metadata elements These are the most common metadata elements Only the title is obligatory in Jutoh other fields that are mandatory for Epub and Mobipocket and that are not filled in will be generated Book title The book title Language The language the book is written in such as en for English or fr for French If left unspecified the default value is en You can select from a list of languages if you click on the details button and click on the Value attribute It is important to specify the correct language as otherwise ebooks can be rejected by some 61 distributors and the wrong dictionary may be used on the ebook reader Identifier The identifier for the book which can be arbitrary if the opf scheme attribute is not specified or it can be an ISBN other kinds of identifier can also be used Use the element editor to add different kinds of identifier If left unspecified the default value will be the title of the book Author Type your name here you can specify multiple authors via the element editor This becomes the creator element in the metadata and you can specify the creator role
8. Preview Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Y Remove unused styles from the style sheet MD impcrted styles override default Jutoh styles Cl Discard imported styles and apply Jutoh styles Discard empty paragraphs Step 5 splitting the document Step 6 in the final page you can choose a cover design either one of Jutoh s templates or an existing image file Click on Templates to see the selection of designs available or click Design to edit the design using the cover designer see Chapter 8 Creating Your Cover Design You can of course change your mind about the cover design at any time after you ve created your project so it doesn t matter too much what you choose in this page 42 New Project Cover Design Choose whether to use an existing fie or create a new design for your e book cover You can edit your design further at any time Use an existing file gt Create a new design Temolates Choose from existing templates Text wil be added automaticaly design Edt your design in more detail adding text and images Now press Finish to create the project and press Compile to make the book Ce Gola Con Step 6 choosing a cover Now press Finish and the ODT file will be imported and if possible split into separate sections Your usual word processor may have hidden your use of ad hoc formatting for example it might have reported Normal in its style list when actually you had
9. Reimporting Jutoh makes it easy to duplicate an initial import operation for example if you changed the original file or decided to use different settings Use the File Reimport Project command to show the New Project Wizard using the same default settings as you used originally deleting the current project content before importing the file again Summary In this chapter you have learned how to import your existing work Next we delve into the details of editing and formatting content 46 Chapter 6 Editing and Formatting Content Jutoh is not just a way of converting existing files to ebooks one of its major strengths is the ability to edit and tweak your book before creating the ebook in the desired format s In this chapter we ll learn how to edit and format your book s text and graphics Why divide a book into sections First a quick word about why Jutoh projects and ebooks in general are divided into sections A section can be a chapter a title page a table of contents and so on Most ebooks are comprised of sections rather than being one enormous chunk like a Word document One reason for this is because some ebook readers with their restricted memory simply can t cope with large chunks of text or if they can slow down when loading and paging through such a book Another reason is that it is is easy to compile a table of contents for a book that s divided into sections though Jutoh can also look inside
10. such as font name then only that attribute will be applied when you press OK If your span of text has a particular attribute such as colour you can clear that attribute by clearing the checkbox or choosing none or clearing the control value depending on the attribute in question If you want to remove all formatting for a span of text then you can use Format Text Reset Text Formatting instead of the font dialog Special symbols Jutoh supports most left to right languages using Unicode and you can insert special symbols in several ways Use the Format Insert Symbol Shift CtrH Y command to show the symbol selector dialog containing all the Unicode symbols see the screenshot below Using View Auto Replace Preferences define symbols that will be inserted when you type a particular piece of text followed by space or paragraph return For example by default typing three dashes followed by a space will cause Jutoh to insert an em dash For more information see Appendix B Configuring Jutoh e Define a symbol as a keyboard shortcut and or favourite using View Customise Shortcuts A favourite is a style command or symbol that is defined as a shortcut and also has its Favourite option checked It will then appear on the Y Favourites toolbar button If this button is switched off you will need to enable it using toolbar customisation For more information see Appendix B Configuring Jutoh Font Nor
11. then it will be hard for Jutoh to construct an advanced table of contents and navigation map that reflects the implicit structure of your book e An item in the navigation map doesn t navigate to correct item on Kindle Check in Project Properties Indexes Table of Contents that the link in question is pointing to a bookmark and not just the relevant HTML file Without bookmarks the navmap can malfunction An item in the table of contents points to the wrong part of a section If there is an image at the beginning of a section Jutoh may not be able to correctly place an automatic bookmark Insert a bookmark manually before the image so Jutoh can use that and rebuild the table of contents e Start page not working You can specify the section that the ereader will initially open by setting the guide type to text in the relevant section document properties However on Kindle this can sometimes malfunction If you send a mobi file via email to your Kindle instead of directly via USB or via your own web site and sometimes when you download a sample the start page that you have set may not work The reasons for this are unclear but it may be that Amazon are converting the file to a lowest common denominator format such as KF7 that does not support the text guide type The start page should still work for the full book from the Amazon web site or if you copy the book to the device directly Formatting errors Some formatting pro
12. we ll see how to use a mobile drive for storing just your data Using a mobile drive for data Jutoh can use the current mobile drive when loading project files To have Jutoh prompt you for a drive name when starting go to the Mobile Preferences dialog select or type a mobile drive name and check Store your data on the external drive If you want the drive name to be stored between sessions check Remember between sessions but it is recommended that you don t check this in case the drive letter or name changes especially when using different computers Jutoh stores documents in the Documents folder on the mobile drive by default You may be wondering how Jutoh opens recently edited files if the drive name and even the operating system changes between Jutoh sessions Jutoh does this by saving the last known external drive when it quits so when it runs again it can convert the old file names to new ones if it turns out that they were relative to the external drive Using a mobile drive for settings If you use the mobile drive for storing settings you can keep important information mobile such as your registration key auto replace customisation cover design templates and other data that Jutoh makes use of This is independent of your own project files Go to the Mobile Preferences dialog and in the Portable Settings section check Store all settings on an external drive You will be asked to restart the program When Jutoh runs ag
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14. Comment stripped out of all generated books Headers Footers HTML output verbatim to HTML based formats Centre and Right You can edit the attributes visual characteristics such as indent or font of all styles and add your own Be careful when deleting styles though since your book may not work correctly if styles that it uses are missing Jutoh will warn you about this and you can then add them back or replace the styles in the offending paragraphs By default the dialog shows the paragraph styles You can view the character styles list styles or all styles at once by using the drop down control under the style list Editing paragraph styles To edit the attributes of a selected style click on Edit The style dialog will be shown for paragraphs 1t will look like this 114 formatting Style Font indents amp Spacing Bullets Tabs Style Body Text Based on Normal Next style Paragraph style dialog Style page The Style page shows the name of the style the base or parent style from which the style inherits and an optional next style that indicates what style will be set when you press return on a style of this kind For example a heading style might have a next style of Body Text so you don t have to change the style manually back to Body Text after writing a heading The Font page lets you adjust font related attributes that will ap
15. Enable embedding in your configuration In your Epub configuration s available from the Configurations tab on the Project Properties dialog scroll down to the Fonts group and check Embed fonts if not already checked Note that if Embed fonts is enabled as well as Optimize for iBooks Jutoh will generate a file called com apple ibooks display options xml with specified fonts set to true This enables font embedding for iBooks 3 Specify font substitutions If the font is installed on the computer and is therefore available from Jutoh s dialogs and is specified in your book then you re done But if the font you want to use is not specified in your document you must specify a font substitution in the Font substitutions property in your configuration For example Times New Roman DejaVu Sans Times New Roman This will use DejaVu Sans Times New Roman for the font family wherever Times New Roman is found in style definitions and content The ebook reader will fall back on Times New Roman if it can t find the embedded font DejaVu Sans You can specify multiple font substitutions by separating them with semicolons If you have multiple font files for a single font family for example regular bold and bold italic variants you can use the same font family name in all of these font documents for example DejaVu Serif and specify the italic style and weight properties in each font document as in the following 128 DejaYuSerif BoldItal
16. For examples see Chapter 13 Working With Style Sheets Paragraphs to include the comma separated paragraph styles whose paragraphs will be exempt from exclusions You can use to mean all characters For example if this property has the value of Only Epub paragraphs styles with Only Epub will be retained but assuming Only in Paragraphs to exclude all other paragraphs whose style name begins with Only will be removed Thus you can include or exclude paragraphs in your document depending on the configuration For examples see Chapter 13 Working With Style Sheets First paragraph style the style to use for first paragraphs after a heading when importing into 74 an existing project from plain text HTML or Epub Normal paragraph style the style to use for normal paragraphs when importing into an existing project from plain text HTML or Epub Chapter heading paragraph style the style to use for chapter headings when importing into an existing project from plain text Only relevant if you have Take title from first line of text files switched on in Project Properties Options Character style substitutions Semicolon separated character style substitutions for example Drop Caps Drop Caps Epub Emphasis Red Emphasis This allows you to adjust styles per configuration without needing to use a different sheet Paragraph style substitutions semicolon separated paragraph styles substitutions for exampl
17. User Interface In the last chapter you learned how to import a file and compile it without getting bogged down too much in the details of the Jutoh tools Now we re going to take a closer look at the Jutoh main window where you will do most of your ebook work File Edit Former Tools Document Book Wew Help sl n B E B RA Edt Cover Cec Land x Chapter 2 ELI ues A Lek errar E Title Page 4 Chapter 2 E Table of Contents E Chapter 1 It was in January the most down trodden month of an Edinburgh winter An attractive a Chapter 2 woman came into the cafe which is nothing remarkable We get a steady stream of lookers so maoch so that you feel a bit spoilt But this woman had presence Something about her demanded my close and immediate attention Her eyes in particular extraordinary bright blue eyes nearly hidden by the mass of crinkly brown har that flopped around her face She was disertanging herself from a large purple rucksack as she came up to the bar Somehow I knew that she wouldn t waste any tene thinking about her order She was in there immediately with Grande mocha please no cream to sit in She looked directly at me with those bright eves there was no way I could avoid her gaze and she gave as she spoke a disarming smile that requested an extra special level of service My automatic banter faded to engage I could not speak so 1 nodded still not taking my eyes off her though I wanted to look away Bu
18. a group of properties that together determine how an ebook will be generated including file format maximum image size style sheet to use cover design to use and so on Initially Jutoh has one configuration per format however you can create as many configurations as you wish For example you might have a general Epub configuration and also an Books Epub configuration which contains iBooks specific copyright information and cover design Context menu A menu that is shown by right clicking over a window Windows and Linux or control clicking on the Mac A context menu can also be shown by pressing the context key if available on your keyboard Notable context menus are those associated with the project outline the content editor and the formatting palette Dialog A dialog is a window that appears after invoking a particular command for example the Project Properties dialog or the Preferences dialog Most but not all dialogs have to be dismissed before you can work with your project Document A Jutoh project is comprised of documents mostly you will be working with book section documents perhaps one per chapter one for the title page another for acknowledgements and so on There are other kinds of document such as the embedded font document text document image document URL document and more but most users will only create book section documents If you have imported an existing file Jutoh may have
19. about the cover design 63 Chapter 8 Creating Your Cover Design An attractive cover design is important for catching the reader s eye as he or she scans through a web site or virtual shelves Jutoh can help you create a cover from scratch using its built in editor or if you have an existing design then Jutoh can use that This chapter covers everything you need to know about using cover designs in Jutoh Cover design basics The cover design does not appear as a section in your project under the Contents folder instead you edit it in Project Properties A preview of the cover design will appear in the Build tab of the Control Panel To edit the cover design simply click on the cover image in the Control Panel or click on the Edit toolbar button and then on the Cover tab or click on the Cover toolbar button Project Properties e Metadata Cover Styles Indexes Configurations Stings Options Info Document Conver Delauk Cover E AY a amp ate Create From Image Fie Anthemion Software Create from Ciphoerd Reset Cover Design x Ca oe The Cover page in the Project Properties dialog A good size for a cover image is 600 pixels wide by 800 pixels high You can also look at the recommendations of the particular site or publishing platform you are using Because ebook covers are often shown as a small thumbnail on ebook sites you need to make them readable when reduced to a small size so sim
20. aloud My book is about Refine what you say Evolve it into a neat 147 phrase that you can say as easily as your name Books and blogs on pitching and log lines for the screenwriting industry have lots of helpful hints on expressing the idea of a thing in a succinct and appealing way Step 3 Find your Special Subject be an expert or an enthusiast The next question to ask yourself is what is your area of unique knowledge and how is it connected to the book you have written Why is a special subject important It gives you a voice 1t is an excuse to speak be it on an online forum a blog in the local newsletter even to the person at the bus stop You are no longer just someone with a book to sell You are instead an interesting person who happens to have written a book which might be equally interesting How do you find your special subject If you have written a collection of gluten free bread recipes because you have a gluten allergy then it is easy to see you are well qualified to take gluten free cooking as your special subject Historical novelists have a head start here as they are usually deeply involved in historical research and have a burning interest in the past that s what drove them become historical novelist in the first place They are often de facto experts However sometimes it can be difficult to find your specialist subject Perhaps you are writing contemporary fiction or a memoir and it doesn t s
21. also has a tab listing all the favourite commands styles and symbols that you have defined For more on this see Chapter 6 Editing and Formatting Content Content errors Obviously there is a limit to what Jutoh can do about general content problems writing style typos inaccuracies and so on However there are a few features that can help e Use the spelling checker Edit Check Spelling e Print out a linear version of your book to make proofreading easier This is where Jutoh s ability to write to ODT and via OpenOffice org PDF comes in handy e If you own an ebook reader create an ebook in that format for convenient reading even if it s not the format you re actually aiming for For example you may be creating an Epub book but you can create a Mobipocket file for a Kindle reader if you have one e Add text notes under the Scraps folder to record or plan edits Finally it s worth remembering that other people will usually be able to spot mistakes in your book much more easily than you can so enlist the help of further pairs of eyes if you can Platform errors Some publishing platforms have requirements over and above the usual ones and can be picky about some style and content issues We ll look at several of the main platforms Smashwords errors More general information about Smashwords can be found in Chapter 16 Understanding Ebook Formats and Platforms so here we will confine ourselves to
22. and subsequent line indentation for the left margin can be specified in a style again under Indents amp Spacing in the style editor You can also specify the right indent though it s rare to need to do that The value is specified in tenths of a millimetre Don t use tabs for indentation Tabs are ignored in HTML based formats Alignment Paragraph alignment left right centred justified can be specified in the Indents Spacing tab in the style editor or via the Format menu and toolbar commands Generally it s best to leave paragraph alignment unspecified so that the ebook reader decides how to format text But for list items it can be better to force left align since a short list item looks terrible when justified Note that if you justify text it won t show as justified in the Jutoh editor However it will be justified when viewed in an ebook reader Headings If you use heading styles of the form Heading 1 then Jutoh will output the styles with the HTML heading tag such as h1 Since HTML can override styling for headings you can achieve more precise control of the end result by using heading styles of a different form such as Section Level 1 or you can clear the Heading style prefix configuration property so that Jutoh doesn t try to output h tags Lists List styles are the only way to achieve bulleted or numbered paragraphs you shouldn t try to apply bullets to an individual paragraph
23. and then specifying tags in the configuration options Include media documents matching tags and Exclude media documents matching tags This technique is also useful for very large images that take a long time to load into the editor when inserted directly Embedding a PDF Currently embedding a PDF into your book works in iBooks only 1 Add the PDF and PNG files to the project as media objects Document Add Media Document 2 Add this to your content in its own paragraph lt p gt lt a href media subwaymap pdf gt lt img src media map png alt img gt lt a gt lt p gt substituting your own file names 3 Apply the HTML style to the above paragraph EpubCheck will complain about the syntax which you can ignore Setting a background image The following method works for some Epub viewers including Adobe Digital Editions 1 Insert a new image into the Resources section of your Jutoh project using Document Add Media Document and selecting an image 2 Ensure that Generate media objects is enabled in your configuration 3 Right click on the section s you want to have a background image select Properties and insert the following into the Extra CSS field body background image url media image png background repeat repeat margin 0 0 0 0 130 where media image png is the path specified in the media object Alternatively if you want it on all pages you could add this once to the the style sheet
24. and what you are able to do within a project When using Jutoh if you find the way documents work confusing you might want to come back and re read this chapter Overview A Jutoh project contains a hierarchy of documents some of which will be used to create your ebook A document is a piece of information such as a book section a text note a picture a shortcut to a file on your local disk or a web link Why might you add documents that are not part of your book I hear you asking Well you may have textual or pictorial research that you want to store with the project or perhaps you want to keep a note of what ebook sites you have uploaded the book to and when However you don t have to use any other kind of document apart from the book section The different document types are listed towards the end of the chapter The project is shown in the project outline window within the Organizer ur New Open Organizer x Projects Favourites Explorer 5 Lena i CD Content Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 O Soaps The Project Outline Window Each document is displayed by clicking on its title in the project outline Depending on your current settings the document will be shown in a new tab or an existing tab in the document area You can change this in Preferences under Project Document Preferences and determine which document types will be shown in separate tabs You may prefer to reuse a tab per document to av
25. applied ad hoc styles such centring and paragraph spacing to that basic style In Jutoh you ll see ad hoc formatting reflected in automatic styles in the style list that is styles containing a symbol such as Normal Centre Alignment You are strongly advised to replace ad hoc formatting with named styles as detailed in Chapter 13 Working With Style Sheets If not all images are imported from your ODT file it may be because they are in a non standard format called SVM Jutoh and most other applications are unable to convert these but if you save your original file as an HTML file from your word processor writing GIF files then when importing from ODT Jutoh will try to substitute any missing SVM image files with the GIF files Another solution is to insert the original images from files instead of pasting from the clipboard or copying and pasting the missing images into Jutoh manually Plain text Plain text can contain no formatting and also generally doesn t contain an indication of what character encoding it has been written in which is the key for an application to interpret how the data is converted to actual characters The encoding is therefore specified by the user when importing In general UTF 8 is the best encoding to use when saving from a word processor since it can handle any language If you specify a folder of text files each file will be used for a separate Jutoh section If you specify a
26. are sometimes used for creating ebooks but PDFs play less well on reader hardware and cannot be reformatted to adapt to reader constraints While Jutoh can help with creating PDFs we will concentrate on the two standard ebooks formats To some extent creating an Epub or a Kindle file is a black art You ll find blogs and forums full of advice on using obscure XML and HTML markup You ll read about the hoops people are jumping through to get this or that formatting correct on iBooks or Kindle or the Sony Reader You may see advice on editing XML to create a table of contents before adding it to an Epub zip file For the uninitiated trawling through this information the prospect of creating an ebook can look frankly terrifying Fortunately with Jutoh it doesn t have to be that way You don t have to deal with OPF files or HTML unless your requirements are very complex you can simply use a friendly editor tool that optimizes its output to take into account the whims of a variety of ebook reader software and hardware Instead of hiring someone to convert your book you can save money by using Jutoh to do it yourself empowering you the author in the spirit of the ebook revolution If you re a publisher or consultant helping an author create ebooks then you ll appreciate the time saving qualities of Jutoh just as much This book is here to help you learn and get the most out of Jutoh bringing together wisdom that you might otherwise h
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28. build index so you don t have to remember to rebuild the index after editing You can edit the index itself in the Entries tab you can change the text of items remove them and reorder them These edits will only be retained if you answer No after clicking the Generate Index Now button If you update the index from the Update Special Book Sections dialog the index will be rebuilt from scratch from the entries in the book content losing any edits in the Entries tab Importing index entries Index entries are imported from ODT and DOCX documents However no special formatting such as italics can be applied to parts of entries or keys they are simple text strings all formatted with the same style Creating footnotes and endnotes A Jutoh book can have either footnotes at the end of each chapter the default or a separate endnotes section Footnotes are always automatically created when the book is compiled but the endnotes section must be explicitly updated or told to update itself automatically before each compilation You can insert footnotes or endnotes using the Format Insert Footnote menu command Type the 110 note text in the editor dialog press OK and a note symbol will appear in the text To edit the note just click on the symbol You may wish to resize the editor to see more items on the toolbar Since you cannot use menubar commands from the footnote editor dialog you can instead use the context popup menu to
29. character style according to choice which may be useful in troubleshooting style mysteries in your book especially when style names are too long to identify properly in the drop down style control Style substitutions You can replaces styles on a per configuration basis by using the Paragraph style substitutions configuration property For example a value of Normal Normal Justified will temporarily replace all instances of Normal with Normal Justified when the book is compiled This can be useful to apply 123 minor tweaks without the need to maintain different style sheets for different configurations Using styles to change ebook content In each configuration there are two properties that let you use styles to include or exclude content In Paragraphs to exclude you can specify the comma separated paragraph styles whose paragraphs should be excluded from the book You can use to mean all characters for example Only will cause all paragraphs with a style name beginning Only to be excluded except for those specified in Paragraphs to include In Paragraphs to include you can specify the comma separated paragraph styles whose paragraphs will be exempt from exclusions You can use to mean all characters For example if this property has the value of Only Epub paragraphs styles with Only Epub will be retained but assuming Only in Paragraphs to exclude all other paragraphs
30. click on the Edit button at the top of the Styles page in Project Properties check Custom CSS and paste the code Adding tables Tables are not officially supported by Jutoh but if you really need them there are workarounds 1 Prepare an image containing the table perhaps by taking a screen shot of an existing document and saving it as a JPEG or PNG Insert that image in Jutoh as usual 2 Enter the table as HTML code and format it with the HTML style This tells Jutoh to pass the text directly to the HTML file and only works for Epub and Kindle formats An example of an HTML table that will work with Epub and Mobipocket is provided at the Mobipocket developer s site at www mobipocket com dev article asp BaseFolder prcgen File tables htm Understanding encodings When importing text files Jutoh needs to know what the encoding of your files is since otherwise the files are just streams of bits that could represent anything A standard ASCII file only represent the basic symbols whereas files encoded in Unicode can represent most symbols in use on the planet Jutoh s favoured Unicode encoding is UTF 8 in which plain text is encoded with one character per symbol and so is readable in any text editor and more complex symbols are represented by two or more characters When you save text from a word processor you need to make sure it s going to write using the encoding that you ve specified in the New Project Wizard or P
31. command and you can remove list styling from one or more paragraphs by clicking on a bullet or numbering toolbar button For any given paragraph in a list both the paragraph style and list style are used Since the current paragraph indent is added to the list style indent choose a non indented paragraph style for your lists to avoid a double indentation Jutoh will warn you if you have used a paragraph style with indentation within a list You can have multiple paragraphs per list by placing the editor cursor just behind the bullet or number and hitting the backspace key This will turn the item into a continuation paragraph without a bullet or number but with the same indentation as a regular list item Note that for Mobipocket output this is simulated by putting line breaks between list paragraphs since genuine multiple list item paragraphs are not possible in KF7 format Jutoh will make an attempt to convert indented paragraphs in DOCX to continuation paragraphs according to the context but if this is tripped up by complex formatting you will need to correct it within Jutoh by appling a list style and then deleting the bullets Another way of creating list like formatting but without using list styles is to use an indented paragraph style with a non indented heading for the item heading For example 57 Apples Apples are roundish in shape and crunchy They come in a variety of well varieties with Granny Smith being one
32. commands formatting styles and symbols use View Customise Shortcuts This interface is also used for adding menu items to the optional Favourites menu on the formatting toolbar check Favourite for each shortcut item to be included in the menu Change settings in the Preferences dialog click the Options button on the toolbar or View Preferences on Windows and Linux or Preferences on the application menu on Mac You can choose whether to show a tip on startup change the display language set the width and surrounding colour of the edit window and various other options that change the display and behaviour Show Jutoh full screen If you are short of screen space or simply want to temporarily reduce clutter you can use F11 or the View Full Screen command to remove the title bar menu bar 30 and main toolbar Press F11 again to restore normal viewing For more information on customising Jutoh to suit your preferences see Appendix B Configuring Jutoh Summary In this chapter we ve seen more detail about the various parts of Jutoh that allow you to work with your projects Next we will help you achieve mastery over your projects including how to manage the individual documents that they contain 31 Chapter 4 Working With Projects In this chapter we ll get to grips with how projects and documents within them are managed It s worth reading so you have a model of how Jutoh will handle your material
33. consider embedding a Unicode font See Embedding Fonts for more information It s also worth doing a quick search online for whether the reader software or hardware supports the language you re writing in Text size and fonts are inconsistent Sometimes you may have hidden text formatting where spans of text or whole paragraphs are formatted with ad hoc or named character styles in addition to the named paragraph style So several paragraphs appear to have the same named style and yet look different from one another Often you can solve formatting problems like this by selecting the text and applying Format Text Reset Formatting to remove all formatting except links Paragraphs with the same indent or margin show different dimensions in the ebook If the font sizes of the paragraph styles differ because Jutoh uses relative units em to define margins the same margin or other size can show up differently in the Epub or Mobipocket Ems are relative to the paragraph style font even if overridden by a character style You can solve the problem by either applying a consistent paragraph style or styles with the same underlying font size or in your Epub configuration clearing the option Use relative dimensions and 89 recompiling e Invisible text on a black background If text disappears when you select white on black in your ebook reader it means your text colour has been hard coded to black You can eliminate all of these occurren
34. created all the documents you need Otherwise you can add more with the Documents toolbar button or commands on the Document menu All documents in a project are stored in the same Jutoh project file Epub file This is the industry standard open file format for flowable ebooks it uses XHTML for the content EPUB is defined in detail at idpf org Version 2 0 of the standard is currently the most used and is generated by Jutoh All ebook readers apart from Amazon s Kindle can read Epub files Epub readers usually have quirks of their own and so some optimization of Epub can be required for each platform Favourite There are two kinds of favourite in Jutoh the dominant meaning used in the documentation is favourite style command or symbol that can appear on the Favourites Y toolbar button or in the Favourites tab of the Formatting Palette These are defined using the command View Customize Shortcuts The other less used meaning is a favourite project file as listed on the Favourites tab on the Organizer palette When you open a project it is added to these favourites for quick access later Keyboard shortcut A key combination for applying a command or style or inserting a symbol There are two kinds of shortcut in Jutoh primary shortcut such as Ctrl B and secondary shortcut such as Ctrl 152 Ctri T A secondary shortcut allows a greater number of shortcuts to be defined by using the Ctrl prefix Fixed la
35. day Ni even benefit financially from your mannertsms or the argument you re having too lowdly with your mistress I m sorry but there s absolutely nothing you can do to protect yourself The only retaliation ts to get out your own notebook suppose that s what love most about writing the raw material ts always around me totally free waiting to be fashioned into something new No one else can create exactly what I can create Only 1 can choose the elements either from my mind or from the real world and pul them together into Just Viewing the ebook in Adobe Digital Editions If you want to compile a Mobipocket file for the Kindle store select the Mobipocket configuration and again press Compile You need to have downloaded installed and configured kindlegen for this to work see Appendix A Installing Jutoh and Appendix B Configuring Jutoh Press Launch and if you have installed a Mobipocket viewer application such as Kindle for PC Mac or Kindle Previewer for PC Mac it will launch to show your ebook You can verify that the files have been generated by clicking on the Files tab in the Control Panel You can select a file and then click Folder if you want to see where the file is on your disk 23 Summary Ta da You have imported content from a file and compiled an ebook In the next chapter we ll have a closer look at Jutoh s user interface so you can get to know your way around it 24 Chapter 3 The Jutoh
36. e 168 C stomising a t replace rome onnies A daa 169 Appeare e Opi OS A a AAA s 170 ES o AEA SEEREN E E E EEA E A 171 Project Options NA A ees 172 Misc llaneo s Options A A A AE AEE 173 E ETTA D i EE A T E E TOEA OE EE E E E 175 From the Horse s Mouth We hit the Google trail in search of e book enlightenment If it wasn t for Jutoh we d still be in the dark Australian Financial Review July 27th 2010 Jutoh writes a new chapter in the manual of e publishing Jutoh is a remarkable program In a complex field it offers a simple to use interface with generous options and faultless performance It accepts a wide variety of input files and can create MOBI EPUB and other standard ebook formats It compiles and checks projects and links to preview software It also allows for extensive metadata entry All this in a neat and tidy presentation When the only other options seemed to be an expensive and unnecessary outlay on something like Adobe In Design this came out of the blue and has answered all our prayers I love it Ellis Delmonte Hawkwood Books Lincoln T just wanted to say your software is bloody genius The Smashwords conversion went brilliantly Jutoh has been a God send and the learning curve will really pay off in the future Having come across many many forums where new digital authors are having a painful birth in converting to the digital platform Jutoh is something that many of them d
37. e Book folder used to specify the folder in which the ebook for this configuration will be generated The folder containing the project will be substituted for the keyword FOLDER which is the default value e Book file name this is FILENAME by default you might want to change the name if you have multiple configurations for the same format Note that an appropriate extension will be appended so you don t have to include that in your file name value For example if your project is called MyBooks you could use FILENAME ibooks to specify MyProject_ibooks epub e Preview file name this is only used for the HTML format where there may be multiple files generated and indicates which file should be used when previewing launching the generated book Metadata This category contains just one property Identifier e Identifier The unique identifier for your book If the Identifier metadata field is left empty the identifier for the current configuration is used Note that initially Jutoh generates a different UUID for each configuration Formats Each configuration should have at least one format checked You can have multiple formats checked but this is not usually desirable The one case where you might like to do that is in your Mobipocket configurations if you also check Epub you will be able to check and view the source for your Mobipocket books These are the supported formats Generate Epub generates Epub 2
38. ebook formats that pass the epub validation checks Anyone who has a book in MS Word can save it to OpenOffice which is free and has a built in PDF capability amongst other features and import it to Jutoh I have found the Jutoh developer to be extremely accessible responsive and eager to receive feedback This is a high end professional piece of software that is practically a give away Kathy M I wanted to thank you so much for the Jutoh tool It s been wonderful I was so pleased with how it worked in creating a mobipocket Kindle edition of a book I ve been writing Joshua D Thank you for another quick thorough response Your customer service is amazing Kristine K Preface Bring on the revolution The publishing world is currently in turmoil largely thanks to the freedoms and opportunities that ebooks bring Simultaneously freeing consumers from the physical realities of print and paper and freeing authors from the gatekeeper mentality that has held back much good content as well as less literary output to be sure the ebook phenomenon has just hit the mainstream now that ebook reader gadgets have become practical and affordable Kindles and Sony Readers have become popular Christmas presents and each year will see more choice on offer To join the revolution authors and publishers need to provide ebooks in essentially two popular formats Epub and Mobipocket Kindle Other formats such as PDF
39. file Because Epub and Mobipocket files are reflowable they don t tend to use absolute positioning and complex layouts Likewise Jutoh can t import such files with much fidelity If you have a book with elaborate layout you will need to think about redesigning it to make use of simpler cues such as small images such as indentation colour spacing and pictures laid out simply As mentioned above tables can be recreated using pictures or if you re feeling adventurous by including HTML code formatted with the HTML style note that Jutoh 2 has table support If you want zoomable images or other custom web like features this isn t possible in Jutoh and indeed most ebook readers wouldn t support it anyway Having said that Jutoh Plus allows you edit HTML and JavaScript to create interactive ebooks if you have the necessary programming skills It s been my experience that users often want Jutoh to work in the particular way that their own favourite word processor works customising shortcuts can help a bit there but Jutoh is a specialist ebook creation tool and inevitably it works slightly differently than other applications Your expectations background and the kind of book you will be creating with Jutoh can lead to quite different experiences with Jutoh but with a little use you should soon find it intuitive Third party troubleshooting tools We ve mentioned the Epub checker which will give you the assurance tha
40. hand When writing try to remember what the reader is looking for and emphasise those elements In the case of a novel you want to to suggest to them that this a good story with intriguing characters and lots of possibility for drama You will notice that both the novel descriptions contain questions the central meat of a drama is a question Will the prince be able to save the princess Will the heroine be able to overcome the obstacles and find the man of her dreams Make sure you draw attention to the sexiest shiniest parts of your novel the glamorous setting the dreadful things at stake or the potential for deep emotional involvement Non fiction descriptions are a little more utilitarian but they are still in the business of making an offer the reader can t refuse They emphasise the authority of the writer and the unique angle that the book offers on a topic that is of general importance and interest Notice how words like offers or reveals are used to suggest that the book is treasure chest of useful and and authentic information One way to look at such descriptions is to imagine them as a slice from the beautiful cake that is your book You are not telling them all the ingredients or how you laboured to mix them up but merely presenting the overall effect You want them to eat the whole cake of course so give them a slice that makes them hungry for more in no more than 200 words Step 2 Be able to talk confidently a
41. lot of money Summary We have learned a little about ebook formats what Jutoh is the steps involved in getting a book to the 15 point of distribution what files Jutoh can import and what other tools can be used alongside Jutoh Next we dive into an example of creating a project and creating an ebook 16 Chapter 2 Getting Started In this chapter we ll demonstrate how easy it is to go from an existing file to a new Jutoh project and a generated ebook We ll assume that you ve installed Jutoh see Appendix A Installing Jutoh for details Creating a new project Let s use the supplied sample file Lena odt as the starting point for this tutorial Jutoh will also accept Word HTML text and Epub files Word and ODT are recommended for best results Run Jutoh and click the New button on the toolbar or type Ctrl N or click on File New Project You will be shown a wizard that will take you through file import Here are the steps for importing it one step per wizard page Step 1 Metadata This page is for entering information about your book New Project Create a new Jutoh project This wizard will help you fill in the details for your new book First please enter some basic information The fields marked with an asterisk are mandatory Lena Lena Felix Carswell mu Step 1 Metadata page Type Lena into the Book title field and a name into Author field Leave the other fields as they a
42. media document path under Standard bullet name e g media bulletl png 3 Format a list item with this style Creating new styles To create a new style click on New and choose from paragraph character or list style New Paragraph Style Paragraph style name My New Style Description C Use custom CSS You can supply a CSS style definition above that will be used in XHTML based formats such as epub overriding the usual settings New style dialog Enter the name optional description any custom CSS and a style to use as a template Note that the value of Base on in this dialog will only be used to set up initial attributes for the new style and will not be the value of the base parent style in the new style Editing style properties The properties of a style are edited using a separate dialog click on the Properties button 119 Style Properties Style name Description Style for body text with no indented first ine C Use custom C55 You can supply a CSS style definition above that will be used in XHTML based formats such as epub overriding the usual settings Lo Jl cancel Hep The Style Properties dialog Here you can edit the style name and its description You can also specify whether to give this style custom CSS that will be used directly instead of using the Jutoh generated CSS for HTML Epub and Mobipocket formats only This gives you more control over how the co
43. men O Left Left 120 Before a paragraph O Bight Justified Left first line 60 After a paragraph O centred Right Line spacing none List level 1 Duis pharetra consequat dui Nullam vitae justo id mauris lobortis interdum List level 2 Duis pharetra consequat dui Nullam vitae justo id mauris lobortis nterdum y A TA List Style Editor spacing sub page The first line left indent defines the distance between the left margin and the bullet while the left indent defines the distance between the left margin and the start of the list item text These values may be ignored depending on format and ebook reader List styles are the only way to achieve bulleted or numbered paragraphs you can t define bullets per paragraph Note that the bulleted and numbered list buttons in the toolbar are hard wired to apply the styles called Bullet List 1 and Numbered List 1 So if you delete either of these styles the relevant button will no longer work To apply a different list style use the Format Bullets and Numbering menu command which will give you a choice of list styles to apply along with the option to renumber the list For some Epub and Kindle devices you can specify a custom bullet image for lists This is how 1 Add a media document with a bitmap e g media bulletl png 118 2 Edit or create a list style and in the List Style tab click on Bitmap for the bullet style and enter the
44. of the most popular Bananas Unlike apples bananas are long bendy and squishy They have their own convenient wrapper utilising a zip like mechanism and all too soon they turn black For more on list styles see Chapter 13 Working With Style Sheets Adding keywords You can add keywords to your text and if the configuration property Replace strings in content is enabled keywords will be replaced by values in the compiled book Keywords can come from string tables that you create and also from your project metadata The following metadata keywords are defined TITLE ID LANGUAGE AUTHOR CONTRIBUTORS PUBLISHER URL SUBJECT DESCRIPTION DATE RIGHTS COVERAGE TYPE YFORMAT SOURCE RELATION This can be a useful facility if you wish to provide different editions with only slightly differing content or to allow quick editing of text used throughout the book or to abbreviate a long piece of text such as an HTML fragment Keyword names are case sensitive and each keyword must be formatted with a single or no style You can read more about string tables in Chapter 14 Working With String Tables Editing document properties Although this isn t directly related to formatting it s important to know how to edit properties associated with each book section document To show the Book Section Properties dialog you can do any one of these 1 Right click or control click on Mac over the title o
45. or 3 output depending on the value of Epub version Generate Mobipocket generates Mobipocket output suitable for Amazon Kindle devices and software Generate ODT generates OpenDocument Text a word processor format that can be converted to many other formats such as Word using for example the free OpenOffice org suite Note that Word itself tends to create more compact doc files than does OpenOffice org so you might want to re save the file using Word if file size is an issue e Generate text generates a single plain text file with no graphics e Generate HTB generates a wxWidgets Help file a simple zipped HTML based format e Generate MP3 generates MP3 files if you select a suitable voice engine and install the LAME 72 MP3 encoder in Preferences MP3 Generate HTML generates a series of XHTML files Book navigation controls can be enabled via properties in the Navigation category below Cover Design This category gives you control over the way Jutoh generates the cover design and cover page for your book Cover design specifies the cover design to be used in this configuration Cover page background colour specifies an optional background colour for the XHTML page that contains the cover Epub only This RGB value should contain six hexadecimal digits two digits per colour To edit the colour double click on the property name or click on the button You might like to provide a background colou
46. or not resized at all resizing can be done at book generation time Also page breaks will be removed from the imported file by default since book sections imply page breaks Change Remove any page breaks 1f you need to retain page breaks 39 New Project New Project sh r e Step 3 import and style options Step 4 in the Import Method page click on From an existing file containing all sections and specify the ODT file to import from 40 New Project import Method Now choose how you d the to create your project O Fron a folder of existing text or HTML files one file per section Folder to scan 5 From an existing file containing all sections Fie ad Settings Juhan Smarty Documerts Jutoh SamplesiLena odt Browse Use this to import a single file containing al content in text ODT HTML or Epub format Click Help for datalls TF you wish to import a Word document you can use OpenOffice Writer to open the and save as ODT before imparting OpenOffice is a free download from wom openoffice org Also you can import from RTF LIT or MOGI if Calibre is installed This is not recommended as the resus are not ideal Calibre is available from ik com O From scratch en intially empty project E Come Ceres Step 4 specifying the import method and file Step 5 in the Single File Import page tell Jutoh how to split the file into book sections which is important for an ebook You can split the file u
47. popular format Jutoh doesn t directly support insertion of SVG files into the editor but there are two ways of getting SVG pictures into your ebooks In both cases you should add media documents to your project containing the SVG images Now you have two options 1 Insert a reference to the media object with Format Insert Media Object Choose the image you previously added as a media document A placeholder icon is added and you can click on it to change the properties 2 Insert a regular image PNG JPEG that duplicates the look of the SVG image In the image properties type the name of the SVG image in the field SVG alternative such as media mypicture svg Now check the configuration property Use SVG images to write SVG images instead of bitmaps You may need to specify the image width and height in image properties for the SVG to be displayed correctly With the second option you can use configurations to control whether SVG or bitmap images are exported so this allows you to maintain different configurations for creating ebooks with either SVGs or bitmap images for different sites or devices Importing pictures from DOCX ODT and HTML You can control some aspects of picture import when they are part of documents imported via the New Project wizard In the Import Preferences pane in the Preferences dialog or in the Import Options page in the New Project Wizard you can choose whether to import images or not and whether to r
48. regularly auto saves any data that hasn t yet been manually saved so if there is a computer crash it can restore the data the next time you open the project This auto save data is stored within the original project file However computer software and hardware can and does go wrong so don t forget to back up your files frequently preferably to multiple locations You can use Jutoh s own simple archiving and backup facility if you wish see File Manage Backups and the description in the manual but this is not automated If you find your project file getting a bit big especially after a lot of editing and deletions you can try compacting it In Preferences click on Project then on Project Maintenance Click on the Records tab then Delete Orphans Click on the Project tab and then on Compact Project All Jutoh data is kept in database tables and as data is changed added and deleted the database can become fragmented so occasional compacting is necessary like defragmenting a hard disk Where is my project If you have opened the project using a method that didn t require you to specify the whole file for example File Recent Projects you might not know the location of your project To find out just click on the Edit button Book Project Properties and then click on the Info tab This tells you the name of the project the folder and what version of Jutoh was used to last save it You can click on Show Folder to show the contai
49. some of the errors that Smashwords might alert you to Paragraph separation error Smashwords doesn t like you to have both paragraph spacing and a first line indent so you can either modify the style you use or if you would like to maintain your current styles for non Smashwords configurations add a paragraph substitution in your configuration For example in the Paragraph style substitutions property for your Smashwords ODT configuration type the string Body Text First Indent Body Text without quotations of course This will cause the Smashwords ODT file only to use non indented paragraphs assuming you have these styles defined and are using them e Misidentified publisher error Check that your title page is as Smashwords wants it in 91 particular that you are using the same publisher name as defined in your Smashwords account For example Published by Anthemion at Smashwords e Copyright page error You need to specify a copyright line in your title or copyright page such as Copyright Julian Smart 2011 e Can t create a NavMap NCX Meatgrinder will look either for section headings starting with Chapter or a linked table of contents You can create an advanced table of contents using Jutoh and Meatgrinder will happily use that for its own table of contents and NavMap e EpubCheck failure This may be a genuine error but sometimes the whole Meatgrinder conversion process fails even
50. styling when generating the ebook Jutoh will remove attributes such as colour and underline if they are also present in the URL character style but you can change this behaviour per configuration Automatic bookmarks have the prefix automatic bookmark and are removed before a page is indexed by the Table of Contents Wizard If you want to make sure that a heading retains a constant bookmark that you can link to manually change the bookmark to one without the automatic bookmark prefix The Table of Contents Wizard will not remove this bookmark You can control click on a page link or alt click on Mac to display the document that is the target of the link with the bookmarked content selected When inserting a URL not a page link you normally simply specify the URL address such as http www something com However if you want more control in HTML based formats only you can include the entire contents of the a tag and Jutoh will output the whole thing The key is to 51 include the href attribute within the URL For example href http www something com onclick return popitup http www something com In non HTML formats Jutoh will extract the actual URL automatically Footnotes You can insert a footnote using Format Insert Footnote Shift CtrI N and you will be able to edit the footnote text in a separate dialog A footnote is represented by this symbol within the text Footnotes can ei
51. table of contents in Adobe Digital Editions If your Jutoh styles don t have outlines you can achieve the same effect by using the Tools Outline Numbering command in Open LibreOffice to set numbering for your heading styles Jutoh 1 51 and above outputs appropriate metadata to ODT files so that when you export to PDF the title and author will appear in the left hand pane in Adobe Digital Editions If your cover design is on the first page of your ODT file it will be used for the thumbnail in Adobe Digital Editions See also the next topic for creating headers and footers and a hyperlinked table of contents with page numbers for your PDF file OpenDocument Text ODT OpenDocument Text is a word processor format that can be converted to many other formats such as Word and PDF using for example the free OpenOffice org suite or LibreOffice which is an offshoot of the OpenOffice org project Note that Word itself tends to create more compact doc files than does OpenOffice org or LibreOffice so you might want to re save the file using Word if file size is an issue Jutoh doesn t generate any headers or footers to add page numbers to an ODT file generated by Jutoh follow these steps in LibreOffice OpenOffice org doesn t currently support the Format Title Page command 1 Open the file in LibreOffice Writer 2 Mark the title page using Format Title Page enter 2 into Number of title pages to skip the cover and title page and
52. tee The Desktop Preferences page You can change the desktop background the logo displayed on it the font and colour used for sticky notes and various other settings You can also change the settings back to the original defaults There is a Tool tab in this page that lets you add and remove tools that will be placed on the desktop and also on the Tools menu on the Jutoh menubar For more details click on the Help button on the Preferences dialog Project options You can change behaviour relating to project handling not per project settings that s the job of the Project Properties dialog using the Projects tab in the Preferences dialog 172 Jutoh Preferences General Current project Appearance Desktop Project filename C projects ritingT ools Jutoh User Guide CreatingEbooksUsingJutoh jutoh Help Project author Speling Privacy Helpers A Medis Types Project Maintenance Speech MP3 Settings Strings Advanced View multiple projects Y Prompt for document titles V Open last viewed document Y Restore document position C Create backup file when project is opened _ Auto save every 1 minutes C luse auto paste copy twice in any application a Auto paste interval in milliseconds 1000 2 Group auto pasted documents by date Tab creation and document saving preferences Edt Document Preferences x Cosa a The Projects Preferences page If you want to allow Jutoh to have seve
53. the same file name as that generated by your Epub configuration so to avoid a clash you may want to change the Book file name property in your Mobipocket configuration to perhaps FILENAME Mobipocket Note that checking a Mobipocket file can result in a lot of spurious a tag bookmark errors because Jutoh optimizes the location of bookmarks in Mobipocket configurations in a way that EpubCheck doesn t like You can ignore these spurious errors To labour the point if both Epub and Mobipocket options are enabled within a configuration then the Epub file generated by this configuration will be Mobipocket oriented and therefore should only be used for checking purposes and not delivered to customers The chances are high that if your Epub configuration passes the EpubCheck test then files generated by your Mobipocket configuration will also be good from a syntactic point of view at least Also Jutoh will catch most common errors and the Kindlegen compiler will catch further fatal errors So you may be content to use EpubCheck for your Epub configuration only Structural errors Structural errors are overall problems with the project some of which may be flagged by Jutoh at the end of the compile Here are some common structural errors e Missing bookmark fragment identifier is not defined The first thing to try is simply regenerating the table of contents if you have used the advanced table of contents mode Q
54. thousands of occurrences of the formatting throughout your document You ll end up with a much better and more easily edited document if you take the trouble to create and use named styles Also if you use a rational naming scheme for headings you II find it much easier to persuade Jutoh to create an advanced table of contents And finally with named styles Jutoh won t have to generate so many automatic styles in the generated ebook which could reduce its efficiency and increase file size CSS dimensions When exporting to ebook formats other than Epub and Mobipocket paragraph dimensions for indentation left margin right margin line spacing and paragraph spacing are specified in absolute dimensions 10ths of a mm When exporting to epub and Mobipocket Jutoh will convert these dimensions to em which is a unit based on the current text size or to mm depending on the value of the Use relative dimensions configuration option You can adjust the scale factor used for the conversion using the Options page in the Project Properties dialog Since Mobipocket doesn t handle em units very well it s recommended that you clear Use relative dimensions in your Mobipocket configuration it is disabled by default for new projects Note that when marking up individual spans of text with either a character style containing a text size or an ad hoc text size the text size will be generated as an absolute point size not in ems This is because
55. toolbar and choosing Customise The editor behaves in most respects like other editors and word processors you will have used with some differences and simplifications Formatting operations can be performed from the toolbar Format menu and the context menu shown using right click or control click on the Mac Navigation around the document follows the usual pattern for example using the control key combined with the left and right arrows to move a word at a time and holding down shift to select text while navigating Text editing and formatting operations can be undone and redone in the usual way However don t expect the editor to be exactly like ones you have used since it has been written from scratch especially to work on a number of different platforms Log and error windows 5 The log window displays messages when compiling projects You can show it with the mennu command View Show Log Window and there is also the option of showing it automatically when you compile an ebook You can close it again using the X in the top right corner The error window is shown when either Jutoh finds errors during a compile or you perform an Epub check on a generated Epub book If there are no errors a green tick will be shown If there are errors they are listed and you can double click on each to show the position of the error either within the original source or within the HTML of the Epub book depending on the type of error From t
56. used to find the headings For example you might want to find al paragraphs with Heading 1 style for the first level in your table of contents If you wish to use document depth the level at which it is nested in the project instead of heading style check Use document depth Table of contents title VIIa Table of contents title style TOC Heading Unk style URL TOC level 1 Max heading level 1 6 3 Style for formatting this level TOC Entry 1 Matching style for this level Heading 1 Build options Y Add at least one entry per section Y Qverwrite existing text Juse document depth not heading level Table of Contents Wizard generation preferences page Let s explain the options presented here Table of contents title specifies the text of the title that will be inserted in the table of contents Table of contents title style lets you choose the paragraph style that will be used to format the table of contents title Link style specifies the character style that will be used to format the linked entries in the table Max heading level lets you choose the maximum number of levels that will appear in the NavMap and table of contents If you check Overwrite existing text the default the whole table of contents page will be replaced when regenerating it Usually this is what you want but you might want to clear this option if you have entered extra text that you want to keep and you want
57. whose style name begins with Only will be removed Thus you can include or exclude paragraphs in your document depending on the configuration When a new project is created Jutoh sets up some paragraph styles for each format prefixed Only for example Only Epub which you can use together with the configuration properties Of course you may need several styles per configuration for different formatting for example Only Epub Centred If you use in your properties you can specify variants so you don t have to mention every single style to include or exclude Here s another example Say we are going to create a Smashwords OpenDocument file which says Published by Acme at Smashwords but all other formats will just say Published by Acme We create two paragraph styles one called Only Smashwords OpenDocument and another called Non Smashwords Formats In our title page we have the two paragraphs Published by Acme at Smashwords Published by Acme The first is formatted with Only Smashwords OpenDocument and the second with Non Smashwords Formats In our Smashwords OpenDocument configuration we set these properties Paragraphs to exclude Only Non Smashwords Formats Paragraphs to include Only Smashwords OpenDocument In all other configurations we keep the default properties for example for Epub Paragraphs to exclude Only Paragraphs to include Only E
58. width to optimize 1 for no optimization Optimization improves quality for smaller images but takes longer Limit images to viewer size whether to limit images to the maximum width and height of the viewer Epub format only Images smaller than the viewer size will show at their original size The setting works by adding max width 100 and max height 100 styles unless overridden by individual image settings Note that some viewers such as Nook Aldiko and ADE erroneously expand images that have their maximum width or height set The fix is to specify the width and or height in pixels or other units in the image properties For example if the image is 300x500 specify 300px in the Width field Flatten images whether to flatten remove alpha channel from any images containing alpha transparency Convert images to JPEG whether to convert non JPEG images to JPEG for reduced file size 78 Specify None to leave the images in their original format All to convert all non JPEG images and All except GIF to leave GIF files alone but convert the others You can override conversion per image by checking Preserve original format in the Image Properties dialog Image quality the image quality when converting to JPEG expressed as a percentage Higher quality means larger file size a good value for general use is 80 Generate media objects 1f enabled any video and audio media files and the tags that reference them wi
59. wish to generate speech files using Jutoh you can select a text to speech engine in the Speech page of the Preferences dialog Normally you choose Microsoft SAPI on Windows and the Apple Speech Manager on Mac but you can also choose the Cepstral engine if you have a Cepstral voice installed and eSpeak is another option On Linux only Cepstral and eSpeak are available In the Speech page you can choose and test the voice to use To configure the MP3 encoder use the MP3 page of the Preferences dialog and choose the location of the LAME executable 164 See also Appending A Installing Jutoh for how to install eSpeak and LAME Customising shortcuts and favourites Shortcuts and favourites give you quick ways to to execute commands apply styles and insert symbols This can save you from a lot of tedious mousing and clicking especially when tidying up formatting in a long document Shortcuts Jutoh allows you to customise the keyboard shortcuts used for 1 applying commands that you can find in the menubar 2 applying named paragraph and character styles to the current paragraph or selection and 3 inserting symbols or text into the active editor Jutoh defines two kinds of shorcut primary and secondary A primary shortcut is a shortcut that you type directly such as Ctrl O to open a project file Because primary shortcuts are in short supply you can also define secondary shortcuts that are prefixed with a primary shortcut Jutoh defi
60. you effectively trigger a price war with yourself hurting your margins On the other hand if you want to sell a book for the smallest possible price on Amazon you might use this to your advantage have it available for free on other platforms so Amazon price matches Also if you use Smashwords to target Kindle for example you can t then sell the identical edition on Amazon directly Why would you want to do that Well Smashwords doesn t always produce as good an ebook file as if you created it directly with a tool such as Jutoh so you might want to handle some sites yourself and have Smashwords distribute to the remaining ones If you want to take advantage of Amazon s free ebook promotions you need to sell it exclusively on Amazon an annoying restriction but the promotions can be very worthwhile for visibility and collecting reviews Summary In this chapter we ve explored the differences between the major ebooks formats and we ve looked at the most significant distribution platforms and their pros and cons Next we ll try to give some general advice on how you might market your ebooks 145 Chapter 17 Marketing Your Book by Harriet Smart Your book exists You have toiled over it now you need people to know about it Easier said than done There are a lot of people shouting and waving their books out there How are people going to know about you and what you have written Step 1 Describe your b
61. 146 El DESDE e e wate ae 146 Step 2 Be able to talk confidently Do O Sid 147 Step 3 Find your Special Subject be an expert or an enthusiast oooooonnnccnococioccnonaconcconnacancconnnonnns 148 Step 4 Build a plathorin issen ienen a a eaa sia ebaoovencce taney sheaeclvdn sd DEEN EEEE aT a 148 Further TINS sees ala etree ol chalet es rns Maat wou A ico E aon eat esata cai E a atic Ae Penh iae 149 AAA A A e a ed a E daniaatedutaes 150 SU A E A A a 150 ROSS ANY A A EEA ET EE 151 Appendix As Installing ito sscsisessssssconccsscasstovassennsadeeescseavacncacconsndasasanodosunonsaeaseonskanouwodavasesneavacesavess 155 Tnstallg 00 Wind WS it aorta pa ETA N a oE 155 Installing 00 MacOS Ar o 156 SAO A a dc 158 Howto us Jutoh with an external dE SN ia ia 159 O A A Oe 159 Using amoblle drive tor i 160 Using a mobile drive for SA A id 160 Running Jutoh from a ODE A lcd 160 Launching J tohon WOW Si e a a E a Ea an EEAS 161 Launching J toh Om CMU eseo da 161 E A E A A AA A 161 Appendix B Configuring Jutoh morisco in 162 Viewer application Suosi ron baled eaa vax E E E EE and sca a ua E a E 162 Conversion and checking applications ssessessesssessesseeseesressesrtsreesresresstestesstssreseessesseesseressreesseet 163 Text to Speech configuration san e 164 Customising shortcuts and favOurites ccccccccescssseceseceseeceseceseecnseeescecsseceeecnseesseecnseeeseeeneeeseeenaees 165 A ATAA E E E EE 165 O Neusat 167 Customs O ODA A
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64. 69 Usa COMM UTA IAS daa 70 Configuration CAES A A NN edie ahd Casitas T2 SIE 72 PP vac bro Seii En aA E AA AE Sie 72 ETA A do sia 72 E DEA added 93 OPA e a or t ds a o 73 MUS a iaa 74 Sting Tables o a 75 HEME Formattingorers SA OI O RR A eer ee oe 75 Tex UP OMANI e o 77 images and Media at A AA TA A AA 78 Adyanc d FONO ss dia 79 CUA UI tt tarios 79 A A eM meena ee 79 Mobileri niaaa aaea eE cian bean e E E E GAT AEE EEE EATE gat 80 aa Ne E EE A O A E 80 Navigations iee e A A AE 80 Conditiona SCIONS E a a aE EENS 81 Commandes ern e era EE van ana AT Ee EAA AOE EEE AE A dia 81 AS 82 A ed cabo a ann bs cable olan Sets gee r a patho lastest canian dete ea T aes dai 82 Chapter 10 Troubleshooting Your Book ccscccsssscssssccsscccscscscscssessccsessccsssscsssssssessesssscssseeees 83 What errors CAMU cl aa 83 A A O 83 A o e OS 86 Formatting EMO adi 87 Content PROPS ti us Sali der aude ak ona seed ss tein dala decd AEE sa eated meas tine A 91 Plattor ETT o al Da cen a ole AI ale N Se el Sa ci 91 Smashwords Errors A vases rs aes esas oa ua le WO cero sei aver weg a OAR vn nwa Seed 91 IBOOKS POS in tio is 92 EIA idos 92 Import Export error S aean aie e a a a tan abeione a ees ieee a ues E a EERE 92 PI o N o NA 92 EXPO a io ae 93 Expectation EmO Seruan ienn e a a a a e ble o tal a EE 93 Third party troubleshooting 1001S A a ia 94 Wien all ls ale aes 95 SUM os e 95 Chapter 11 Working With Pic cares
65. C and Mac you can show the NavMap using Show Document Navigation and on Kindle Previewer this is available via NCX View as follows 101 2 Kindle for iPhone Previewer Fle View Goto Devices Ubities Help D 4 es Aa 8 E E NCX View The Page Table of Contents Preface 1 Introduction Ebooks and Jutoh 2 Getting Sterted 3 The Jutoh User Interface 4 Working Wth Projects 5 Editing and Formatting Content 6 Editing Your Book s Metadata 7 Creating Your Cover Design 8 Understanding Configurations 39 Working Wh Pictures 10 Working With Indexes 11 Working With Style Sheets 12 Working With String Tables 13 Creating Speech MP3 Files 14 Differences Between Formats 15 Advanced Topics 16 Cestributing and Marketing Your Book Appendix A Installing Jutoh Appendix 8 Configuring Jutoh Append C Understanding Ebook Formats Kindle Previewer showing the NCX View NavMap SPF Fee AAA When creating an Epub file Jutoh always creates a NavMap by default from the titles of your book sections Jutoh can also create a basic table of contents page simply by checking the Generate table of contents property in the current configuration Project Properties Configurations The extra page will appear in your book but will not be visible in your Jutoh project Jutoh supports an additional advanced method of building a NavMap and table of contents In this mode you maintain an explicit list of contents entri
66. CX ODT HTML and text into an existing project using the File Import command For more information on importing see Chapter 5 Importing Files Tools to use with Jutoh No man is an island and neither is Jutoh These are some of the third party tools you can use to help with your book creation EpubCheck by Adobe is a very useful checker for Epub files It examines the HTML and XML files in your book and flags up errors such as missing mandatory meta data ill formed HTML missing 14 bookmarks and so on This tool is installed and configured by default with Jutoh it needs Java to be installed on your system Use the checker by clicking the Check button or by switching on Check Epub after compiling in the General Preferences dialog You can get updated versions of EpubCheck from here code google com p epubcheck Amazon s Kindlegen is essential if you want to create Mobipocket Kindle books It s not installed by default but you can download it from www amazon com kindlepublishing Configure Jutoh by going to the Helpers page in the Jutoh Preferences dialog and clicking on Help Me Install Kindlegen in the Helpers page or Setup dialog Jutoh will install and configure Kindlegen for you To preview your Epub book you can install Adobe Digital Editions www adobe com products digitaleditions or other Epub viewer Jutoh will launch the default application associated with the epub extension when you click on Launch I
67. DT files Jutoh s recommended file import format is ODT and Jutoh supports ODT book export Paragraph style Named paragraph styles are applied to whole paragraphs and are important in enforcing consistency throughout a project For example the Normal style is defined by default You can view and edit paragraph styles using Book Project Properties or Edit on the toolbar and clicking on Styles You can apply paragraph styles using the drop down list in the formatting toolbar or by right clicking on selected text then choosing Styles styles in the context popup menu Reflowable ebook A reflowable ebook does not have a fixed number of pages since pagination is dependent on display size and user customisations such as font size and device orientation All Jutoh ebooks are currently reflowable but support for fixed layout ebooks will be added Style sheet Usually used to describe the Jutoh style sheet a collection of paragraph character and list style definitions A Jutoh project can have multiple style sheets Jutoh style sheets are only indirectly related to CSS sheets and you cannot import from a CSS sheet However you can export Jutoh 153 style sheets for import into other projects 154 Appendix A Installing Jutoh This appendix describes how to install Jutoh and associated third party software on the main supported platforms Note that you can check for updates and install new versions using Check for Updates
68. E MP3 encoder You can get a package file containing LAME for Mac from the Thalictrum web site at www thalictrum com index php pageid 2 Run the pkg file that appears on the desktop The lame command will now be available and you need to set usr local bin lame as the executable in the Jutoh MP3 Preferences page 157 Installing on Linux Jutoh Download a suitable file from from www jutoh com download htm There are versions for several methods of installation tarball Debian package and RPM and also 32 bit and 64 bit variants If you are using a Debian or Ubuntu derived version of Linux you can use the deb archive If you are using Fedora Mandriva SuSE Linux PCLinuxOS you can use the rpm archive To install the generic tarball version unarchive Jutoh x y 1386 tar gz to a temporary location such as tmp Then run the script installjutoh and follow the instructions This will copy the application files and launch script jutoh to locations of your choice If you want to install it system wide log in as root first or use sudo So you would type something like cd tmp tar xvfz Downloads Jutoh 1 01 1386 tar gz sudo installjutoh To install the deb version use a command like this sucio cole 1 Juro 1 01 13596 clalo To install the rpm version use a command like this suelo som 1 5ueola l 01 1386 wom Now you should be able to run Jutoh with an icon installed in the desktop environment s menu or by running jutoh f
69. HTML s div only paragraphs and as tables are not supported in Jutoh tables will not translate they can be inserted afterwards as pictures or embedded HTML instead Let s look at the input formats in more detail and how to import from each format in the Jutoh New Project Wizard Microsoft Word XML DOCX and OpenDocument Text ODT The majority of users especially on Windows and Mac will probably have their manuscript in Microsoft Word format If you re using Linux you re more likely to have an ODT file ODT format originally started as SX W the native format of StarOffice which became OpenOffice org Now it s a recognised international standard and supported in other word processors including recent versions of Microsoft Word If your word processor doesn t support ODT then you can download a copy of OpenOffice org for free and use it to convert from what your word processor outputs to ODT You might save from your word processor in RTF for example before loading it into OpenOffice org and saving as ODT Jutoh recognises the styles footnotes index entries and bookmarks in an ODT file and therefore this is 37 the best format to use for getting your existing book into Jutoh These are the steps to take when importing an ODT file Step 1 input some minimal metadata New Project Create a new Jutoh project This wizard wil help you fill in the detais for your new book First please enter some basic infor
70. Jutoh Ing Smart ing Great Creat Dr Jul N Y x O O Q LLI Creating Great Ebooks Using Jutoh A complete guide to making ebooks for Kindle iPad Sony Reader Nook Kobo and more from new project to publication by Julian Smart Published by Anthemion Copyright Julian Smart 2014 Edition 1 8 Note that this guide references Jutoh version 1 For a guide to Jutoh 2 which has many more features please visit the Jutoh web site http www jutoh com bookv2 htm mm C i Duon Y Anthemion All rights reserved You are welcome to redistribute this book in its original form The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of various products referenced in this work This book was created using Jutoh The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of various products referenced in this work which have been used without permission The publication use of these trademarks is not authorized associated with or sponsored by the trademark owners Table of Contents From the Horse s Mouth icisris nusiteenteaes davectuntivecanpessanesdueanseadsvccustarsuustavenuix 7 Lig q E es PEI PO On aed taounssdiSecenoitantaiesenioduies 8 Brinig Om ME TEO ION NS A E T 8 aN LOI A A A A E APLAR E EIA 8 How this book 18 StHUC HUT erario ri pinares 9 Conventions and terms used in this DO aii A ios 10 Chapter 1 Introduction to Ebooks and Jutoh s soessoesssesssosesoes
71. Jutoh generated files to your own web site using an FTP client such as FileZilla If you re making them available for free there s not much else to do except upload the files in different formats and add links to your web site Or you could simply link to the files on other platforms such as the Kindle store or Smashwords If you want to make your books commercially available you could use a service such as Plimus which will serve files up to your users after payment The files won t be encrypted but you can add a paragraph to the title page to request that people do not redistribute the file this should discourage some piracy A little bit of piracy may actually be a good thing in spreading the word about your books and in my opinion there will always be a majority of law abiding citizens prepared to pay Besides determined pirates will crack encryption or scan or retype books And offering unencrypted books can be a selling point since customers generally hate encryption and Digital Rights Management since it restricts how the product can be read and stored If you re determined to encrypt your books simply use a store such as Kindle Smashwords or iBooks Caveats about using multiple distribution platforms You might think it was obvious that the more platforms you sell to the better However there are some wrinkles If one platform sells your book at a lower price than another then you can find the other platform price matching so
72. Mobipocket ignores spacing values that are less than 25 tenths of a mm 116 Line spacing the spacing between lines within a paragraph not between paragraphs is specified as none takes a default or inherited value single spacing or in 0 1 increments up to 2 times the normal line spacing You can ignore the Bullets and Tabs pages as far as ordinary paragraphs are concerned since bullets are only defined as part of a list style and tabs are not supported in Jutoh or most ebook formats Editing character styles To edit a character style first view all character styles by selecting Character styles in the drop down box under the style list then select a style and click Edit The character style editor has a Style page similar to the paragraph style editor but without the Next style field and a Font page No other attributes apply to character styles Editing list styles To edit a list style first view all list styles by selecting List styles in the drop down box under the style list then select a style and click Edit The list style editor has Style Font Indents amp Spacing and List Style pages formatting A T taii Style Font indents amp Spacing Ust Style List level 1 7 Eont for Level Bullet style Spacing Bullet style Upper case roman numerals A Lower case roman numerals Numbered outline Symbol th v DPeriod OM Os Bullet Alignment Standard bullet name Left standa
73. Now press OK OK again and in the editor select the first letter of your paragraph and apply Drop Caps to it You can do this with right click or control click on Mac Styles scroll to the bottom of the menu click on Character Styles choose Drop Caps Now when you compile the Epub and show it in say Adobe Digital Editions you should see something approximating a drop caps In Kindle it 11 be shown as a large letter just not dropped You may need to tweak the CSS to work better with your choice of font sizes How to format small caps Small capitals can be applied to a named style or directly to text via the Font tab of the style editor For convenience you could add a character style called Small Caps that just has this attribute defined When generating Epub and Mobipocket ebooks Jutoh can generate small caps either by using the official font variant CSS attribute or by emulating it by emitting capital letters and shrinking the text Adobe Digital Editions and some other ereaders do not support font variant but all ereaders will do a reasonable job using small caps emulation so by default emulation is used To use font variant instead clear the Emulate small caps configuration option For those ereaders that support it for example Kindle readers iBooks and the Azardi software font variant is a superior method since it renders real capitals larger than the lower case letters However if you re targeting multip
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75. Some Epub viewers do not support a non breaking horizontal bar which is essential punctuation for Spanish So if you are writing Spanish you may wish to enable the configuration option Convert horizontal bar to em dash This converts the horizontal bar Unicode 8213 to an em dash Unicode 8212 and adds a non breaking span For the non breaking behaviour to work the bar and non space character to the left or right of the bar must be formatted in the same or no character style Note that when we talk about conversion we are referring to the final generation of the ebook from the Jutoh content not file import So you can retain the horizontal bar in your Jutoh content and decide at any time whether or not to have it appear as an em dash in your book without any permanent replacement of the original symbol 50 You can also set the configuration option Styles suppressing hyphenation This is a pattern matching all styles that should suppress hyphenation the default value is Heading thus suppressing hyphenation for all headings You can separate multiple patterns with the pipe character Horizontal rules To add a horizontal rule for example to indicate a division between scenes within a narrative use Format Insert Horizontal Rule Shift Ctrl B You will see a symbol like this _ __ _ _ __ ___ __ ___ _ You can click on the symbol to change properties such as width and colour These properties w
76. TML will be included in this Epub so you may need to ignore a few of the errors in particular those flagging up incorrectly positioned a tags bookmarks We recommend that you review your Kindle book in both Kindle for PC Mac and Kindle Previewer Kindle Previewer lets you set the current simulated device type including Kindle hardware iPad and iPhone iBooks Apple s Epub based iBooks platform is administered through iTunes Unfortunately only the USA is supported at the time of writing unless you are already set up to do business in the USA Fortunately you can use Smashwords to target iTunes from any country Epub files for iBooks need a little tweaking to perform well on iOS Edit your Epub configuration s and check the Optimize for iBooks property Jutoh will then apply a few small changes the next time the book is generated These are Font names are removed from styles unless Generate font names is enabled 141 Dummy span tags are added to centered paragraphs since otherwise the centering is lost in full justification mode An image that is on its own in a paragraph and has its size dimensions specified in its properties is generated using a div that takes the dimensions of the image and dimensions are removed from the image itself This is because Books ignores width and height specifications in images and using a parent div is a widely used workaround If either Generate font names or Embed fonts i
77. This creates LS and LE marks Link Start and Link End Click All to apply this to all entries and then click OK to dismiss the dialog 5 Right click over the special Table of Contents field that has been inserted in the document and choose Update Index Table and you should find that a table of contents with page numbers appears MP3 Jutoh can output audio books in the form of MP3 files using the operating system s built in text to speech engine or one of several other engines such as eSpeak Obviously this is not going to be as good as a human reading the book but it can be helpful in some circumstances such as listening to a book when commuting Also note that when using some voices the generated MP3 files can t be distributed commercially without permission from the original voice license holder Creation of MP3 files requires an MP3 encoder Jutoh uses the LAME encoder as described in Appendix A Installing Jutoh Platforms Amazon Kindle Kindle books account for maybe half of all ebooks sold so it s obviously important to be in the Kindle store Fortunately Amazon makes this very easy for the independent author or small publisher using their publishing tools in the USA and UK check for support in other countries You can upload your Jutoh generated Mobipocket file and Amazon will encrypt 1t for you if you wish One of the great things about supporting the Kindle platform is that your books can be read on most smartp
78. With him hardly the safest companion is his friend and former student Robert Dudley a risk taker a wild card and possibly the Queen s secret lover The famously mystical town is still mourning the gruesome execution of its Abbot Richard Whiting But why was the Abbot really killed What is the secret held by the monks since the Abbey was founded by Joseph of Arimathea uncle of Christ and guardian of the Holy Grail The mission takes Dee to the tangled roots of English magic into unexpected violence necromantic darkness the breathless stirring of first love and the cold heart of a complex plot against Elizabeth This is the Amazon description for a very famous self help book THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE is recognised as one of the most influential books ever written In this seminal work Stephen R Covey presents a holistic integrated principle centred approach for solving personal and professional problems With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes Covey reveals a step by step pathway for living with fairness integrity honesty and human dignity principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates Translated into thirty four languages and with phenomenal sales THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE has been the key to the success of legions of business leaders and individuals the world over And finally th
79. able of Contents Wizard Jutoh can help you create a table of contents page for your book The same information can be used to create the mandatory NavMap in your Epub or Mobipocket me ir an yeaah te E E opi E cca i ttc You can leave all of this to Jutoh the default or you can use this wizard for advanced O beg in particular taking entries from headings in the content and not just the section O Leave it to Jutoh Jutoh wil create NavMap entries from section titles and a contents page if you have enabled this setting In this mode the Table of Contents wil not appear in your project only in the generated book Create contents with Jutoh s heb Jutoh will create the contents by scanning your document headings Clear the checkbox below to use the current entries instead Y Recreate contents by scanning documents Y Create a contents page Table of Contents A e de e p lt ek mext gt conca Table of Contents Wizard first page To create an advanced table of contents with both a NavMap and a separate table of contents page check Create contents with Jutoh s help and also Recreate contents by scanning documents and Create a contents page In the next wizard page we specify the settings that Jutoh will used when finding headings in the document 104 Table of Contents Generation Preferences Choose how the table of contents wil be generated from your book content Specify the heading styles that will be
80. aced in the footer for all but the first and last pages in the book e HTML footer last page template specifies the HTML to be placed in the footer for the last page in the book Conditional Sections This category lets you include or exclude sections from the final ebook Note that if you use these properties to change the way sections are included in your book you will need to regenerate the table of contents alphabetical index and endnotes for each configuration since these will also change according to configuration e Include sections matching tags enter a comma delimited set of tags which match against tags specified in the Properties dialog for each section For a given section if any of the tags specified here are mentioned in its own tags or this property is empty the section will be included in the book e Exclude sections matching tags enter a comma delimited set of tags which match against tags specified in the Properties dialog for each section For a given section if any of the tags specified here are mentioned in its own tags the section will be excluded from the book e Include media documents matching tags comma delimited tags matching tags of media documents that should be included If no tags are specified all media documents match e Exclude media documents matching tags comma delimited tags matching tags of media documents that should not be included If no tags are specified all media documents match C
81. ain you will be prompted for a drive and any new settings will be stored on that drive Your registration information will be copied to the drive but no other settings will be copied The new settings will be stored in folder Application Data Jutoh on the external drive If you wish to copy previous setings see Jutoh files for where to find the old settings Running Jutoh from a mobile drive The most portable method of using Jutoh is to install the software on the mobile drive If you do this all settings will also be stored on the drive as described in the previous section To install Jutoh to a mobile drive go to the Mobile Preferences dialog and click Install Jutoh on External Drive You will be presented with the Mobile Installation Wizard which will take you through the necessary steps You can install Jutoh from the web from the version you re currently running or from zip files you downloaded earlier You can install Jutoh for different operating systems and they will all share the same application data files The Windows version of the software is installed to Applications Jutoh Windows Jutoh 160 x yz and other platforms are installed to similar paths but with an appropriate platform name in place of Windows Launching Jutoh on Windows If you installed the Windows version from a Windows computer a shortcut will appear on the mobile drive top level folder You can double click that from Explorer to get started Launch
82. al character style name will be retained So if it s important that the specific character style name is retained in your book first reset the existing character styling for the selected text using Format Text Reset Formatting Automatic styles If you apply ad hoc styling that is apply attributes such as bold centring paragraph spacing and so on directly without choosing a named style with those attributes then Jutoh will construct an automatic style with those attributes You can tell an automatic style by the presence of symbols in the name for example Normal Centre Alignment Automatic styles are stored in each section document not in the editable style sheet so they won t be visible except in the drop down style control If you import a file from ODT OpenDocument Text you may find a lot of your content is unexpectedly formatted with automatic styles If this is the case your original document also had automatic styles but your word processor hid this by showing only the basic style name in the drop down style control It s becoming a familiar refrain in this book but avoid use of automatic styles whenever possible When you need to apply formatting consider if you can create a named style for this purpose such as Centred Picture or Picture Caption If you change your mind about the details of formatting later you can then simply edit the named style rather than dozens hundreds or even
83. although the Bullets page of the paragraph style editor is retained in case you imported a bulleted paragraph and need to reset the attributes 56 List styles work on the principle that lists can potentially be nested with different bullet or numbering styles depending on the level depth of the list When you are editing a list pressing the Tab or Shift Tab keys will increase or decrease the level of the current paragraph in the list It is dependent on the particular ebook reader whether the particular bullet or numbering style will be honoured so you may see a different style in the ebook than in Jutoh The Bulleted List and Numbered List buttons in the toolbar apply the styles called Bullet List 1 and Numbered List 1 respectively To apply a different list style use the Format Bullets and Numbering menu command which will give you a choice of list styles to apply along with the option to renumber the list Bullets and Numbering Styles Bullet List 1 Numbered List 1 Outline List 1 List level 1 Duis pharetra consequat du Nullam vitae justo id mauris lobortis interdum List level 2 Duis pharetra consequat dui Nullam vitae justo id mauris lobortis interdum o List level 3 Duis pharetra consequat dul Nullam vitae justo id mauris lobortis interdum v Restart numbering OK The Bullets and Numbering dialog You can renumber a list without choosing a style using the Format Renumber
84. ame or Delete the selected object and change the selected object s order in the list with the up and down arrows You can save the current design as a template file to use for subsequent designs using Save and you can browse and apply other templates by clicking on Templates Click on Reset to clear all objects apart from the background and Preview shows the design at the actual pixel size The following topics describe the three tabbed editor pages which are used to specify how the selected object is displayed Object size and position In this page adjust the size and position of an object using the up down controls or by entering values manually The X and Y positions can be absolute relative to a parent object specified in the Relative to field or a percentage of the parent or centred with respect to the parent The width and height can be absolute or a percentage of the parent If no parent is specified the object dimensions are relative to the background object where applicable 65 Object background The object background page determines how the background texture is drawn The Style field takes one of a number of values e Transparent the object is not drawn This can be useful if the object is meant as a place holder to be the parent object for other objects for example if the object represents the label area of the book containing text e Colour the object is drawn as a solid colour Image t
85. anguage currently just English but this will be expanded in future as people contribute translations 174 Change Log Version 1 8 March 4th 2014 e Added new configuration options Cover image width Identifier and Mirror pages e Replaced screenshot for Table of Contents properties and wizard pages and added screenshots for index and footnote options e Updated the section on creating Kindle books Version 1 7 July 24th 2013 e Added new configuration options Mobipocket anchor optimization Pre compile command Post compile command Version 1 6 May 15th 2013 e Added new configuration options Styles suppressing page break before Styles suppressing page break after Character substitutions Character style substitutions Orphan control for single letter words Emulate small caps Dimension units Font size units Generate colour Generate iBooks XML Widow control Orphan control Namespaces Removed references to the obsolete preflight checker which has been removed from Jutoh since version 1 67 Version 1 5 January 18th 2013 e Added a description of the formatting palette to the Editing and Formatting Content chapter e Added a description of how to fix the unmanifested content Lulu error to the Troubleshooting chapter Updated screenshots to reflect UI changes e Mentioned Jutoh Plus in the Introduction in relation to custom HTML provision e Updated the Glossary e Elaborated on viewer applicat
86. apter 10 Troubleshooting Your Book we explain the ways in which you can check and improve your book after compiling it If you find problems with your book this chapter is your first port of call In Chapter 11 Working With Pictures we describe various aspects of importing pictures and specifying how they will appear in the generated book In Chapter 12 Working With Indexes we explain how Jutoh can help you build a table of contents and also an alphabetical index and footnotes or endnotes In Chapter 13 Working With Style Sheets you ll learn all about styles and style sheets which are important in formatting your document consistently In Chapter 14 Working With String Tables we describe a trick for customising your books by using keywords in your content that are substituted by values that can depend on the current configuration In Chapter 15 Advanced Topics we look at a variety of advanced topics such as character encodings embedding font and media guide types and more In Chapter 16 Understanding Ebook Formats and Platform we describe some of the nuances of ebook formats and distribution platforms that you should be aware of In Chapter 17 Marketing Your Book we take a look at various ways in which you can get your book to a wider audience The Glossary may be useful for getting used to various terms used within this guide and the software itself In Appendix A Installing Jutoh we look at how to install Ju
87. ations e Use the arrows to navigate a character or line at a time Hold down the control key to move a word at a time Use Page Up and Page Down to move up and down a page at a time Home and End move to the beginning and end of the line respectively hold down the control key command key on Mac to move to the start or end of the whole section e Use Shift Enter to insert a line break character within a paragraph Use this sparingly if at all since it can be confusing to edit paragraphs containing line breaks e Hold down shift with a navigation key to select content you can use CtrI A to select all text in a section 47 e Use double click to select a word and drag the mouse to select a region of text Several separate areas of selection are not supported e In addition to the toolbar buttons and menu commands you can use Ctrl C to copy text and Ctrl V to paste text To move text you can use Ctrl X to cut and Ctrl V to paste e Use Edit Paste Unformatted Text to strip formatting out of the text you are pasting useful if the original formatting is not applicable to the current context e Use Ctrl Z to undo an operation and Ctrl Y to redo it e Use the drop down style control on the editor toolbar to apply paragraph styles more on that later Some editing commands are also available on the context menu which appears when you right click over the editor You can change the size of the text for editing purposes n
88. attributes that are the same in the style to you specify in the configuration and the actual link which means you can have specific colours and other attributes in your content without them also being removed The same logic applies to indexes and footnotes Creating a table of contents manually If Jutoh s automatic contents building facility isn t for you you can construct the NavMap and table of contents page manually Build your NavMap in Project Preferences under Indexes Contents by creating individual entries and linking them to bookmarks or overall sections Now you have a choice of how to create the table of contents page You can run the Table of Contents Wizard clearing Recreate contents by scanning documents so it only regenerates the contents page without scanning headings and recreating the NavMap Or you can create the table of contents page entirely by hand by adding a section giving it a Guide Type of toc see the document properties available from the project outline context menu or Document Document Properties and adding links This is laborious so it s likely that you 1l want to use one of the automatic or semi automatic methods Creating an alphabetical index Jutoh can create an alphabetical index 1f you insert index entries throughout your book The items in the index are linked to the appropriate position in the book Insert index entries by selecting some text for the entry and using the Format Ins
89. ave to glean from around the web Sometimes even Jutoh can t entirely smooth over differences between formats publisher requirements and ebook reader behaviour and these areas are documented as much as possible to save you frustration If you are a Jutoh user this guide will be an adjunct to the software version 1 56 and above and the built in user manual which contains more detail for example on each dialog presented by Jutoh If you are thinking about using Jutoh or are using a different method to create your ebooks I hope you ll still find some useful tips in these pages Happy authoring Note that this guide references Jutoh version 1 For a guide to Jutoh 2 which has many more features please visit the Jutoh web site http www jutoh com bookv2 htm Julian Smart March 2014 About the author Dr Julian Smart is technical director of Edinburgh based Anthemion Software He is the founder of the wxWidgets project a popular construction kit for applications that run on a variety of computer platforms Julian is the creator of Jutoh and with his novelist wife Harriet Smart the Writer s Caf toolkit for writers as well as the DialogBlocks and HelpBlocks tools for programmers How this book is structured In Chapter 1 Introduction to Ebooks and Jutoh we start off with a gentle amble around the concept of the ebook and how Jutoh relates to it You ll get an overview of the steps involved in overall ebook creation with ref
90. ay you wanted the Smashwords edition of your book to contain different information from the other versions of your book In the picture below a string tabled called Smashword Strings has been added to the project properties to be used to tailor the content of the book according to the Smashwords publishing platform 126 Project Properties Metadata String tables Smashwords Strings v Copyright Copyright c Pelix Carswell 2012 Edition Smashwords Edition Lena orThe Gir in the Caf The Strings page of the Project Properties dialog The Project string table property of the Smashwords configuration will be set to Smashwords Strings and the keywords Copyright Edition and Title can be used in the book text so that the Smashwords edition of the book contains the appropriate strings A string table would be defined for each configuration or perhaps one fallback table General Strings would be used for non Smashwords editions Troubleshooting string tables If keywords are not being substituted check that these requirements are met Each keyword name in the content must be formatted with either no style or a single style Keyword names are case sensitive Each keyword must be enclosed in symbols You must set the project and or global table names in your configuration You must check the configuration property Replace strings in content Summary You may never use string tables but n
91. before compiling you select the appropriate configuration such as Epub or Mobipocket each of which is generally named after the format it targets However configurations are much more than that They contain a whole host of user editable options that will be used for that configuration and you can add as many configurations as you like So for example you might like to have two Epub configurations called Books Epub and Barnes amp Noble Epub with slightly different behaviour for each A configuration can specify which cover design or style sheet to use so you can have alternate versions of your book with different cover designs or formatting without having to maintain different versions of the book Or you could have different configurations for generating images with different sizes tailored for use on different kinds of reader device When you create a Jutoh project Jutoh s New Project Wizard presents you with the option to create an initial set of configurations one per format supported Generally you can leave the defaults as they are unless you know you definitely won t need some of them Later you can add change and delete configurations Editing configurations To edit a configuration you can click on Edit on the toolbar to show the Project Properties and then click on Configurations Or you can click on the Edit button next to the drop down list of configurations in the Control Panel
92. better to create your own by hand Generate table of contents check to generate a table of contents page for the book either automatically it will not be visible in the project or manually whenever you run the TOC wizard it will be visible in the project Generate guide check to generate a guide section in the OPF file recommended Generate title tag check to generate a title tag for each HTML file Optimize for iBooks various optimizations are applied In particular dummy spans are added to 173 Styles centered paragraphs in order to fix centering in full justification mode Use Generate font names to determine whether the specified fonts option will be switched on in the iBooks XML file or whether font names will be suppressed This option will cause a file called com apple ibooks display options xml to be added to the Epub file under the folder ETA INF If you submit the Epub to Lulu this may cause an unmanifested file error so clear this option for Lulu submissions ES Generate iBooks XML if this option and Optimize for iBooks are both checked generates the file com apple ibooks display options xml when necessary Optimize for Mobipocket anchors are inserted before paragraphs to prevent style loss on navigation as recommended by Amazon guidelines and no paragraph tags are used within a list item Mobipocket anchor optimization if cleared and Optimize for Mobipocket is checked anchors are no lon
93. blems are merely subjective aesthetic issues and some will cause actual problems in your book Here are some of the issues you might have surrounding formatting Missing paragraph or character 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 Overuse of ad hoc automatic styles Yes I m about to repeat the point I made above in case you missed it Jutoh won t warn you about this but if you have used a lot of ad hoc formatting either in the file you imported or within Jutoh you may find it very hard to get consistent formatting and to change the formatting later Ad hoc styling leads to automatic styles generated style names containing symbols which have long names and make it hard to understand and improve document formatting Create and use named styles whenever possible In particular use consistent head
94. book sample you have created a new configuration called Sample Epub Now add the tag sample to your title page table of contents if there is one and the first three chapter documents Next edit your Sample Epub configuration and in the property Include sections matching tags type the value sample Regenerate your table of contents and compile You should now have an Epub that contains only the sample content If you have a section that should only be included for a particular configuration then give it a tag and enter that tag in Exclude sections matching tags You might also make use of this to have alternate title pages intended for different distribution channels Removing underlining from links in HTML based formats There is no provision in Jutoh for specifying this level of detail so it needs to be done using custom CSS You can add CSS either globally if you want no underscores throughout or per section To add it globally go to the Styles page on the Project Properties dialog and click on Edit Properties at the top of the dialog Check Use custom CSS and paste in the CSS code Let s say we want to make the link colour red and remove underlining You can use the following code a link color red text decoration none asvlisltes colors mechs teoxe decorairicas mone aslowerz colors eos text cdecoraltioas momep asacitive colors rech textodecoratrions none Alternatively if yo
95. bout it Writing your book description and studying other book descriptions is a very good way to see what it is that makes people interested in books what excites them You will have a much clearer idea of what your book is and who might be interested and indeed what is special about your book The next thing to do is to refine that description even further into a sentence or two you can use when you meet people and they ask about your book The latest evidence suggests that word of mouth is one of the most important drivers of ebook sales Word of mouth begins with a conversation be it virtual or in real life When people ask you what your book is about you need to have an answer ready Even better have several answers ready to suit the sort of person you are talking to Never apologise for your book be bold and talk it up Share the passion you felt in writing it Don t say Oh it s just a romance novel say It s a love story inspired by a set of old letters I found in a thrift shop It made me cry when I was writing it Don t say It s a rehash of some research I did on stress but It s a book about how you can manage your stress levels Now I am not saying this is easy It isn t Writers are naturally shy and retiring and like to hide behind a wall of comforting text But to get people to know your book exists you have to have a pithy description at your finger tips Practice saying in private and
96. ces using Document Cleanup see below Images are blurry If you need most images to be compressed JPEGs but you need some of them to be uncompressed to eliminate JPEG artefacts for example in line drawings or symbols then insert GIFs from files and change Convert images to JPEG to All except GIF Also blurriness can be caused by scaling up from a small image especially on a high resolution device such as an iPad You can improve matters by pasting a higher resolution image into Jutoh and specifying an absolute or percentage width in the image properties Images are too large Some viewers such as Nook Aldiko and ADE erroneously expand images that have their maximum width or height set either explicitly per image or by using the configuration option Limit images to viewer size The fix is to specify the width and or height in pixels or other units in the image properties For example if the image is 300x500 specify 300px in the Width field Jutoh has a way to help clean up project formatting documents it s the menu command Book Document Cleanup which will show you the following dialog Document Cleanup Document Cleanup Choose which aspects of document formatting Jutoh wil clean up Note that this operation cannot be undone so you are advised to make a copy of your Jutoh project first Click on Help for more information about each of the following options Remove ad hoc font names From text Remove a
97. chase is good for all platforms so you don t have to worry about migrating to another operating system later We re also quick to respond to technical support requests and even if you haven t yet bought a copy of Jutoh we re happy to discuss your needs We wish you the best of luck in the exciting world of ebook publishing 150 Glossary Ad hoc styling This is the application of a combination of individual attributes such as bold centering and so on to an existing span of text or paragraph without defining those attributes as part of a named style The result of using ad hoc styling is the creation of automatic styles uniquely named styles and when used widely problems in maintaining consistency or applying certain Jutoh features such as table of content creation that search for specific named styles Minimize ad hoc styling by editing and applying existing named styles and creating new ones 4d hoc styling can also be referred to as local styling Application You can appy styles to paragraphs and text spans and lists This means giving your content some formatting attributes such as centering or bold It is best to apply named styles from the style sheet Asset An asset in Jutoh terminology is a fragment of HTML used either as a template to help Jutoh write a book section HTML file or as some other part that is inserted into the template Assets are associated both with individual documents a
98. choose Convert existing pages to title pages Check Reset Page Numbering after title pages Press OK 3 Choose Format Choose Footer Default Click on the first available footer and choose Insert Fields Page Number 4 Select the page number field and centre it You can also add a header if you wish perhaps containing the title of the book 138 To add a table of contents with page numbers and not just links follow these steps in OpenOffice org Writer or LibreOffice Writer 1 Delete the Jutoh generated table of contents 2 Click on Format Indexes and Tables Indexes and Tables to show the Insert Index Table dialog 3 We need to associate heading styles used in the document with levels in the table of contents similar to how Jutoh works when searching for headings to put in the table of contents Check Additional Styles and click the button Assuming you are using Heading 1 Heading 2 and so on for headings in your document click on each of these in the list and click on the gt gt button to position each at the appropriate point in the table Heading 1 at position 1 Heading 2 at position 2 and so on Press OK but don t dismiss the Insert Index Table dialog yet 4 Now we need to make the entries hyperlinked Click on the Entries tab and in the Structure area click in the box just before the E button then click Hyperlink Click in the box just after the E and click on Hyperlink
99. ciated with this file type by the operating system If only one 162 application is defined for a file type then a menu will not be shown when launching the application for that file type The following screenshot illustrates what happens when a Mobipocket helper for Kindle Previewer has been defined for Kindle Previewer and the user clicks on Launch The default viewer is Kindle for PC so the user has a choice between running Kindle for PC or Kindle Previewer for the current Mobipocket configuration ix B Configuring Jutoh amp y J AA i eck Default lia SiE Kindle Previewer X Appendix B Configurin Clicking Launch with several viewer applications defined Note that this mechanism relies on applications accepting file names on the command line most do but a few don t such as the Nook viewer and in these cases you will need to use the application s user interface to view the book Yov ll be glad to know that we persuaded Amazon to add command line file name handling to Kindle Previewer Conversion and checking applications Jutoh uses a number of third party applications to help it create and check books The two Epub checker commands are already configured but if you wish to create Mobipocket files you will need to configure Kindlegen These commands are specified in the Helpers page of the Preferences dialog 163 Viewer applications Bile types HTML files html htm xhtmi Viewers Default Conv
100. cking over the picture and selecting Properties The properties dialog will let you fill in values for float mode none left or right margins alternative text and other attributes We ll go into more detail about images and how Jutoh optimizes them for ebooks in Chapter 11 Working With Pictures Page breaks The ebook reader software will cause page breaks to appear between sections such as chapters so you don t need to insert a break at the start of each section If you need page breaks to appear within a section before a particular a paragraph put the cursor on that paragraph and use Format Insert Page Break Shift Ctrl E To remove a page break use the same command again A dotted line will appear before the paragraph indicating the location of the break How page breaks are interpreted visually is up to each ebook reader Non breaking spaces and hyphens You can insert non breaking spaces and hyphens with Format Insert Non Breaking Space Shift Ctrl Space and Format Insert Non Breaking Hyphen Shift Ctrl The non breaking space is inserted as a Unicode character 160 but since some fonts can t display the non breaking hyphen character 8209 this is inserted as a special object If you enable the configuration option Convert non breaking hyphen to hyphen Jutoh will generate HTML with a regular hyphen and a span that prevents breaking to be compatible with more Epub viewers This is unnecessary for Mobipocket
101. control Initially you will have just one cover design called Default Cover You can add delete and rename designs using the buttons under the drop down list Cover display on different devices On iBooks you ll see the cover in the virtual bookshelf but not once the book has opened On Kindle the book will start at the first main page and you ll have to page back to see the cover Summary You now know how to add a cover to your project from an existing design or from scratch using the built in cover designer Next we ll tackle the topic of configurations the mechanism Jutoh uses to allow you maximum control over each individual file format or ebook platform that you re targeting 68 Chapter 9 Understanding Configurations Ebook publishers often have slightly different requirements even if the same format is used You may also wish to tailor Jutoh s output for your own reasons Jutoh s configuration feature lets you change the way that ebooks are generated so that you can tweak the output for one format or ebook platform without affecting others You may not need to worry about configurations for a bit but once in a while you may come across the need to change configurations or even add new ones so it s worth at least scanning this chapter so you know where to look Configuration basics At first glance configuration seems like a fancy name for format In the Build tab of the Control Panel
102. d Jutoh tries to smooth over these differences for example Jutoh s iBooks optimization feature fixes a problem with iBooks failing to honour centre alignment Mobipocket Mobipocket is a format purchased by Amazon to be used by Amazon s Kindle hardware and software now Amazon are the odd man out in being the only ebook player using a non Epub format However Mobipocket is based on Epub and Amazon s Kindlegen application formerly Mobigen takes a set of Epub like files including the OPF file as input to generate Mobipocket as output Mobipocket XHTML differs from genuine Epub XHTML in various ways and you can read about the details at www mobipocket com dev Jutoh generates XHTML that is optimized for Mobipocket and then calls Kindlegen to create the Mobipocket file Mobipocket files have the prc or mobi extension Kindlegen is not the only application that can create Mobipocket files there is Mobipocket Creator from the originators of the Mobipocket format and Calibre can also be used Jutoh can be configured to use Calibre instead of Kindlegen However Amazon strongly recommends that you use Kindlegen Jutoh can use the latest Kindlegen for creating KF8 files which will work on Kindle Fire as well as earlier Kindle devices However this doesn t mean that Jutoh supports all the available features of the Kindle Fire more advanced features will be added to Jutoh in due course 137 Adobe Portable Document Format PDF
103. d are geared towards getting you to part with money for books in their catalogues So you may be content to use Adobe Digital Editions to preview your work If you are distributing your book on Smashwords the Meatgrinder application that runs when you submit the book may give you some information about the quality of formatting in your book Finally of course you can get a variety of ebook reader hardware as they re getting ever cheaper and test your files on these When using external reader applications alongside Jutoh such as Kindle for PC be aware 94 that if the book is open in that application Jutoh may not be able to create it again until you quit the book or close the application Also you should delete the book from the application s library before launching it again because quite often you can end up looking at the old version of the book and wondering why nothing seems to have changed When all else fails If you just can t figure out what is going wrong with your book do contact us see the Support page for contact details preferably sending your Jutoh project or a suitable sample and a detailed description of the problem You never know it might be a bug in Jutoh in any case we want to help you fix your problem if nothing in this chapter has helped You can also join the anthemion writingtools mailing list and raise the issue there Don t suffer in silence Summary This chapter has armed you with the know
104. d hoc point size From text Remove ad hoc text colour Remove ad hoc background colour Remove empty paragraphs Remove spaces at the start and end of paragraphs Remove line breaks at the end of Footnotes and sections C Remove all line breaks Remove automatic bookmarks Remove unused bookmarks C Substitute missing styles Specify substitutions separated by semicolons For example T auto SomeStyle AnotherStyle MissingStyle none The Document Cleanup dialog 90 This will give you the option of removing erroneous spaces ad hoc automatic style font and size styling within spans of text empty paragraphs line breaks and automatically generated or unused bookmarks It can also replace missing styles with specified ones and convert blank lines to proper style based spacing Use this feature with caution since it can make a lot of changes to your project back up your project first Another handy way of correcting styles is to use style find and replace via the Edit Find Styles command As well as allowing mass replacement of one style with another throughout your project it will allow you to click on text and see the full name of the character or paragraph style You might want to use the Formatting Palette show or hide it using the Format Formatting Palette command or Alt P It gives you a list of styles to apply and makes it easy to see just what style has been applied at the current cursor position It
105. d specify the width and height of the images that will be used in each section they should all be the same size Switch off table of contents and title page generation since the presence of reflowable content will cause the book to show up as a tiny mess In a future edition Jutoh will have special support for fixed layout books for a variety of readers with text and images superimposed on the main page image Jutoh and Epub 3 There is preliminary support for Epub 3 you can switch Epub 3 support on by setting the Epub version configuration property to 3 The adaptations to Epub 3 are currently as follows e The new style table of contents file is generated while the old NCX file is included for backwards compatibility e Epub 2 guide types are converted to Epub 3 equivalents where possible e if documents contain guide types a landmarks table of contents is generated e metadata is generated using the new Epub 3 syntax with mandatory date metadata XHTML files have the correct preamble e the text section document s Scripted property value is reflected in the manifest In Jutoh Plus JavaScript code can be embedded also in Epub 2 5 i e iBooks Jutoh is distributed with EpubCheck 3 which means it can check both Epub 2 and Epub 3 files if you have Java installed 136 Chapter 16 Understanding Ebook Formats and Platforms In the Introduction we looked briefly at the ebook formats that Jutoh supports ei
106. d the scope of this document not least because few ebook platforms support embedded media If you are determined to embed media for example if only targeting iBooks Epub books you can find details in the Jutoh manual and also a brief description in Chapter 15 Advanced Topics Source code document A source code document stores HTML JavaScript or CSS code The file is stored within the project file and copied to the book when compiling Most users won t need this kind of document since Jutoh generates code from sections in your book but sometimes it s helpful to include additional code for example to update documents dynamically via JavaScript to implement a built in quiz At the time of writing only iBooks allows this but it will become more prevalent with the widespread adoption of Epub 3 So that most users are not exposed to more complexity than necessary source code documents can only 35 be created and edited in Jutoh Plus Standard Jutoh can still open save and compile projects containing source code documents For more information please see the Jutoh Plus guide at www jutoh com jutohplus htm Summary In this chapter you have learned how projects and documents work It was probably filed in the boring but important drawer in your brain Next we look at how you can get your existing work into Jutoh 36 Chapter 5 Importing Files In Chapter 2 Getting Started we briefly showed how to import an existing fil
107. e Normal Normal Justified Centred Centred Bold This allows you to adjust styles per configuration without needing to use a different sheet Heading style prefix a prefix for determining whether a style is a heading for the purposes of HTML generation The default is Heading Clearing this field will prevent Jutoh from generating lt h gt tags Note that from Jutoh 1 67 the generated CSS overrides heading formatting if Heading style prefix specifies a valid prefix for existing heading styles and so heading styles should be displayed as specified in Jutoh and not according to ereader heading defaults Styles suppressing hyphenation A pattern matching all styles that should suppress hyphenation Multiple patterns containing wildcards and can be separated by the pipe character For example Heading Book Title This works for Epub only and generates the extra CSS adobe hyphenate none hyphens none Styles suppressing page break before a pattern matching all styles that should suppress a preceding page break Multiple patterns containing wildcards and can be separated by the pipe character Styles suppressing page break after a pattern matching all styles that should suppress a following page break Multiple patterns containing wildcards and can be separated by the pipe character String Tables Jutoh s string tables feature allows customisation of metada
108. e format You can delete the selected configuration with 9 Delete and change its name with Rename If you want to apply the same configuration settings to a different project you can H Save selected configurations to a file and then Load them in the other project Use the up and down arrows to reorder configurations in the list Using configurations You can select the current configuration in the control panel to the left of the Jutoh editor This configuration will be used to determine paths and other settings for Compile Check and Launch commands To compile a book using the current configuration click on the Compile button on the Control Panel or click on the os Compile button on the toolbar or use Book Compile menu command or use the F7 keyboard shortcut If you prefer you can compile using multiple configurations in one go using the Book Batch Compile command a choice of configurations to use is presented as shown below 70 Batch Compile Configurations Y Mobipocket Y OpenDocument liv Text Select All ive Vv MP3 Select None Y Smashwords OpenDocument UY HTML L Clear log before compiling Batch Compile dialog Note that if you use the File Export menu command to quickly export your book to a specified format any formats specified in the currently selected configuration are temporarily overridden All the other settings in the current configuration will be used for the export so normally i
109. e description of a new biography of Georgette Heyer by Jennifer Kloester Georgette Heyer remains an enduring international bestseller read and loved by four generations of readers and extolled by today s bestselling authors Despite her enormous popularity she never gave an interview or appeared in 146 public Georgette Heyer wrote her first novel The Black Moth when she was seventeen in order to amuse her convalescent brother It was published in 1921 to instant success and ninety years later it has never been out of print A phenomenon even in her own lifetime to this day she is the undisputed queen of regency romance During ten years of research into Georgette Heyer s life and writing Jennifer Kloester has had unlimited access to Heyer s notebooks and private papers and the Heyer family records and exclusive access to several untapped archives of Heyer s early letters Engaging authoritative and meticulously researched Georgette Heyer Biography of a Bestseller offers a comprehensive insight into the life and writing of a remarkable and ferociously private woman All of these are between 150 and 190 words long and yet they all manage to say an awful lot about the book They are little masterpieces of copywriting and you should strive to create a little masterpiece for your own book It is not easy but it is worth taking the time to do because then you will have a ready made and persuasive description of your book readily to
110. e into Jutoh In this chapter we will cover this aspect in more detail including what the best import format is and why What can Jutoh import Jutoh can import from several different kinds of file but with varying quality depending on the format These are the supported formats e Microsoft Word XML DOCX this has been Microsoft Word s native file format for some years but older versions of Word can still be made to open and save DOCX see the Introduction for more information e OpenDocument Text ODT this is the native file format of the free OpenDocument org Writer and LibreOffice Writer word processors e Plain text Jutoh can import from a plain text file or folder full of text files though there will be no fancy formatting initially since there is none in the original text HTML Jutoh can import in a limited way from HTML some formatting will be lost although of course most can be put back by applying styles within Jutoh e Epub Jutoh can import from an existing Epub file with the same HTML restrictions as mentioned above Although Jutoh can import from these formats after a blank project has been created it s usually best to import within the New Project Wizard because the wizard helps you split the file into sections Because Jutoh s representation is different from each of the native file formats it s inevitable that some information will be lost in translation For example Jutoh has no concept of
111. e maximum width or height of the current viewer This will only work if you have one image on a line since two images side by side will get a combined 200 of the viewer width or height You can override the maximum width and height on a per image basis by specifying these values in the image properties dialog If your image is too big for the device display 1t could break across two pages this can cause the Epub to be rejected by iTunes so make sure Limit images to viewer size is checked if your book contains large images If your PNG images contain alpha transparency by default Jutoh will flatten them that is remove the transparency and give the images a white background You can suppress this by clearing the Flatten 99 images configuration option If you do not flatten images they may end up as black boxes in your ebook Note that GIF images cannot be flattened unless converting to JPEG If you find your images look a little blurry particularly if you re using images for symbols or equations switch conversion to JPEG off in your configuration s or use GIFs and set Convert images to JPEG to All except GIF Or you can leave JPEG conversion on but for selected images such as symbols and diagrams check the Preserve original format option in each image s properties If you have multiple instances of the same image in your project you can indicate to Jutoh which images should only be exported once by choosing a unique
112. eaders and more using the Jutoh ebook creation software from Anthemion Software Edk Custom Metadata Cancel Heb The metadata panel in Project Properties A metadata field is called an element in XML parlance In most cases there is one value per element You can just type the value into the appropriate text field For example there is only title However in some cases it s possible and desirable to provide multiple values per element for example multiple contributors or to add a special attribute within the element to make the meaning of the value clearer To achieve either of these click on the details button next to a category to show the element editor Let s say we want to add an ISBN identifier Click on the details button next to Identifier and in the element editor dialog click on the first Add button to add a new element value This shows a menu of possible element templates click on ISBN This adds a new element with opf scheme set to 60 ISBN You can type the ISBN number into the Value property and the XML that Jutoh will write to the metadata will be shown in the preview In the following example of the element editor in action we ve deleted the original element so there s only one kind of identifier in this book the ISBN Editing Identifier Attributes Value 1234567891012 opf scheme ISBN id BookId Preview lt dc identifier opf scheme ISBN id
113. ecify how Jutoh will search for headings when they are formatted differently throughout the document Some of this can be smoothed over by using wildcards to match against variants of a base style but it s always better to start with a clean consistent document e Missing tables Since Jutoh 1 doesn t support tables these will be omitted Instead paste pictures for tables or use the HTML paragraph style to enter the HTML directly Or use Jutoh 2 e Missing images If images don t make it from your DOCX or ODT file Jutoh may not have been able to handle this particular image type You will need to paste or insert the images separately If you are importing from HTML the images may not have been in the correct path as specified within the HTML When importing from ODT also export an HTML file using OpenOffice or LibreOffice to the same folder that contains the ODT and with the same root name as the original file For example thing odt should be exported as thing html GIF files will be written to the folder and Jutoh will use these images when importing from ODT e Poor list formatting Due to the differences between the way lists are represented in different formats sometimes lists are less than perfect after import for example containing erroneous bullet symbols or inconsistent indenting Try selecting the list and re applying a list style using the toolbar list buttons or Format Bullets and Numbering Also try to ens
114. ecome unnecessary since all ereaders now recognise or quietly ignore the text guide type 132 How to format drop caps Jutoh doesn t support drop caps directly but you can use CSS to achieve it at least in Epub with slightly less success on Mobipocket There s some information about the general principles here external link In recent versions of Jutoh a Drop Caps character style is created automatically in the default style sheet which you may wish to adjust to your preferences If Jutoh has not already added a Drop Caps character style go to Project Properties Styles click New Style choose Character Style Enter the name Drop Caps Press OK Still in the Styles panel in the drop down under the styles list choose Character styles Select Drop Caps click Edit go to the Font tab and choose a large font say 20pt and choose Bold under Font weight This is just to show a large bold font in the editor this exact formatting won t show in the ebook Press OK to dismiss the Drop Caps editor and now click on Properties to show the Drop Caps property dialog Check Use custom CSS and paste in this text Drop Caps 1 overflow hidden line height 90 height 0 75em font size 280 margin right 0 075em i loO ic g ire y This should replace the existing text if you used a different name for the Drop Caps style make sure it s reflected in the name after the dot in the CSS
115. ed by a tip from Jutoh that explains more about how that error has arisen and how you might fix it To see exactly where the error is in the Epub file click on the Debug button or double click on an error message You ll see the Book Viewer window 84 Lena Jutoh Book Viewer Ge Wew be B 3 lt gt 2 Open Home Play Previous Next Options Slew arroje e META INF lt cortent c section C002 hhef gt E container lt nevPont gt Q 0 lt nawPort de nyPont 2 playOrder 2 gt CoverDesign bo lt rwrrLabel gt CoverPage html lt text gt Chagter i lt Jtext gt content opf lt Jnavlabel gt maged png rent a secton 0001 html lt inavPont gt section 0002 himl lt nayPort d nayPort 3 playOrdera 3 gt secton 0003 hte lt ravLabel gt sechon 0005 html lt hext gt Chagter 2 lt jtext gt secton 0005 html lt ineviabel gt section 0006 html lt cortent ac section 0004 htmigauto bockmark_1 J gt section 0007 html a 3 styles css 3 toc nex Q Errors Tps ERA or e SL opt 12 date value aes is not valid The date muz be nthe foam YYYN PaO r 00 s 2 pS 3 Wit 7 n K 00 The bookmark was not found or cbon 0002 html 1 auto paren 1 fragment identifier is not dredi Y OFS EpubCheck stopped parsing the c nex 26 auto bookmark _t fragment identifier ls not defined in OFS secti oot Se containing the bookmark S section 0002 heii ik auto bookmark _t fragment ide
116. eem at all clear Your subject seems too general Don t despair ask yourself some more questions and try to tease out your special subject For example look at the setting does your work have a regional flavour Is your romance set in France Why did you choose France Is 1t because you live there and know it well or because you love the very idea of France all that style and elegance If the first think Living in France all you need to know notes from an expat or if you don t know France that well except through research and imagination you can go the I Heart France route and explore the style and culture of the country Chances are that people who also love France in the same way may be interested in reading your wonderfully romantic love story set in their favourite country Both of these approaches give you plenty of angles for blogging participating in relevant forums and generally getting the word out there Step 4 Build a platform Get yourself known online Gather a tribe The word is that traditional publishers are making it a stipulation that newly signed authors already have a blog or are at least prepared to start one Others are suggesting that their existing authors get onto Twitter For an indie author an online presence of some description is even more essential The good news is that nowadays you don t need an elaborate or expensive website with flashing graphics In fact I would advise stron
117. en creating a new project or editing an existing one you can import style sheets that were previously saved with a stylesheet extension In the Styles tab of the properties dialog import style styles with Import and save selected style sheets one or more with Save When importing stylesheets will replace any existing style sheets of the same name Please note that these are not CSS style sheets they are Jutoh specific binary files You will be warned if you attempt to import a regular css file Currently Jutoh is unable to parse CSS so you cannot import CSS either here or within an imported HTML file Finding and replacing styles You can search for paragraphs with particular named styles and replace them with other styles using the Find Styles dialog available from Edit Find Styles Shift Ctri T Find Styles Find style Body Text First Indent v Find Replace with ody Tex v Replace Replace Al y _Chse Paragraph styles O Character styles Style under cursor Body Text First Indent Heb The Find Styles dialog You can use asterisks in the style to find so for example the string Body Text will match against Body Text Body Text First Indent and also automatic styles derived from Body Text styles such as Body Text Centre Alignment As well as allowing search and replacement the dialog will show you the named style under the current position in the text paragraph or
118. er Separators This category controls the output of textual separators between sections By default there are no separators e e Add chapter separators check to output an extra paragraph at the end of each chapter to visually separate one chapter from the next Chapter separator text the text to add at the end of a chapter Chapter separator style the paragraph style of the text to add at the end of a chapter Fonts and Colour This category contains options related to font handling e Embed fonts check to embed any fonts listed under Resources Font substitutions semicolon separated font substitutions for example Times New Roman Deja Vu Serif Times New Roman Arial Deja Vu Sans This allows you to use embedded 79 fonts in place of the font specified in your book and you can use a list of comma separated names for fallbacks This only works for XHTML based formats and not on all ebook platforms Generate font names clear this to use the reader default font name If checked enables the specified fonts in Books specified fonts option in com apple ibooks display options xml e Generate generic font names clear this to avoid generating generic font names for HTML based formats The generic names are serif sans serif cursive fantasy monospace If you disable both this and Generate font names no font family attribute will be written to the CSS e Generate colour clear this to avoid generating an
119. erence to those steps that Jutoh helps with In Chapter 2 Getting Started we run through a simple example of creating a project and compiling an ebook We ll keep it very brief so you can see that Jutoh makes the simple things simple to achieve In Chapter 3 The Jutoh User Interface we ll take a look at the main elements of the Jutoh window so you 1l know your way around We also look at how you can customise the interface for example defining new keyboard shortcuts and a favourites menu In Chapter 4 Working With Projects we describe what a project consists of how to add documents to a project and other aspects of controlling your Jutoh project In Chapter 5 Importing Files we describe in detail the types of file that can be imported and how to tell Jutoh to split 1t into sections In Chapter 6 Editing and Formatting Content you will learn all about the Jutoh editor and how to use it to edit and format text and pictures In Chapter 7 Editing Your Book s Metadata we look at metadata the information that describes your book to the ebook reader In Chapter 8 Editing Your Cover Design we put Jutoh s built in cover designer under the microscope If you will only be using previously prepared artwork for your book s you can skip this chapter In Chapter 9 Understanding Configurations the important concept of configuration is explained and each configuration property is explained in detail In Ch
120. ersion and checking applications Epub checker command java jar SAPPDIRS epubcheck 3 0 epubcheck 3 0 jar Adobe s epub file checker detecting XHTML and other errors This is mstaled with Jutoh Kindlegen location c Kindlegen kindlegen exe A third party conversion utility required for Mobipocket Kindle file generation Not installed with Jutoh by default Specify the full path and executable name or just Kindlegen on Linux if it s in your path Help Me Install Kindiegen Help Me Instal Kindle Previewer oe Cms Configuring Jutoh helper applications When configuring the Java checker applications you can use APPDIR to denote the folder in which the Jutoh application is found You need to specify a full Java command such as java jar SAPPDIRS epubcheck 1 1 epubcheck 1 1 jar For the Kindlegen compiler specify the full path of the Kindlegen executable on Windows and Mac and just kindlegen on Linux If you re not sure how to install or configure Kindlegen you can click on Help Me Install Kindlegen in the Preferences dialog under Helpers or in the Setup Wizard The Kindlegen Installation dialog will help you either download and install Kindlegen or install Kindlegen from a manually downloaded Kindlegen archive On Windows the Setup Wizard will also help you download install and configure Kindle Previewer for Jutoh which is much easier than doing it by hand Text to speech configuration If you
121. ert Index Entry menu command Or you can leave the text unselected and type the entry in the Index Entry dialog Edit Index Entry Type Normal W Entry Cat ist Key Animal 2nd Key Mammal See Index Entry dialog When you press OK the index entry will be inserted and shown as this symbol E 108 To edit the entry simply click on the symbol You can create a multi level index by filling in the Key 1 and Key 2 fields These represent a category and a sub category and will be written with suitable indentation in the index section For example if you fill in the Entry Key 1 and Key 2 fields with Cat Animal and Mammal respectively you would get Animal Mammal Cat in the index The Entry field is always the final most specific item The index section is not created until you instruct Jutoh to do so via the Index Properties page or the Book Update command In the following screen shot two index entries have been added Cat and Dog each with Animal and Mammal keys The items are linked back to their original position in the document if there are multiple locations for the same index entry linked numbers are shown instead following each entry Index Two index entries If you need to add a see or see also entry you can choose one of these options from the Type dropdown control and then type text into the See entry It will be placed by the relevant entry in the index acco
122. es with help from Jutoh The entries appear in the Contents page of the Project Properties dialog under Indexes Contents and are also editable in the Table of Contents Wizard Use this wizard with the command Book Build Table of Contents to switch to advanced mode and specify how contents entries will be gathered from headings in your documents Why would you want to use this advanced method instead of the default table of contents generated by Jutoh Well you get more control of styling and of which entries will appear in the contents and you can generate a table of contents that s several levels deep the default method only gives you one level So for most projects it s worth the extra effort Here s how the contents entries appear in Project Properties after running the Table of Contents Wizard at least once 102 Contents Index Footnotes amp Endnotes Table of Contents Y X These entries are used if you are maintaining a Table of Contents page and NaviMap yourself Normally Jutoh handles these itself To change between simple and advanced ToC mode run wizard from here or using the Buid Table of Contents command on the Book menu The Table of Contents page of the Project Properties dialog Let s have a look at the Table of Contents Wizard invoked by pressing Run Table of Contents Wizard in the Project Properties dialog or from Book Build Table of Contents Here s the first page 103 T
123. esize them and to what size 98 If you want to specify the image size later you can clear the Respect specified image size option This will force images to be imported either at the width you specify or at the maximum resolution they have in the original file Then you can specify the maximum image width and height in your configurations for later resizing see Image export to ebooks below Some types of picture cannot be imported from ODT documents in particular SVM the StarView Metafile format These pictures should be pasted or inserted by hand after import Or export an HTML file using OpenOffice or LibreOffice to the same folder that contains the ODT and with the same root name as the original file For example thing odt should be exported as thing html GIF files will be written to the folder and Jutoh will use these images when importing from ODT Pictures pasted from the clipboard into a DOCX file are stored as Windows Metafiles These can be imported by Jutoh on Windows although picture size may be slightly different from the original On Linux and Mac OS X metafiles are ignored so you have several options 1 perform the document import on a Windows machine and copy the jutoh file afterwards to your Linux or Mac machine 2 in your original DOCX file replace pasted images with images inserted from PNG or JPEG files and then perform the import or 3 paste or insert the missing images into your Jutoh project Image ex
124. et but you can adjust these values using the buttons next to each item of metadata Sony Reader Store Sony Reader Store uses the Epub format you can get your books on their site via Smashwords At the time of writing there are no known issues with Sony s Epub implementation that require special consideration Smashwords Smashwords is very popular with authors especially as 1t has distribution deals with other major ebook platforms in addition to selling them directly from the Smashwords site in multiple formats So 1f you want to be listed on sites that you can t upload to on your own and or want to save yourself the hassle of submitting to multiple sites this is great You submit a file in Microsoft Word format so you need to do that extra conversion step in OpenOffice org Writer or Microsoft Word after generating an OpenDocument file destined for Smashwords Note that Microsoft Word creates a more compact file Smashwords will take your Word file and pass it through their Meatgrinder program to convert it into the various formats supported by Smashwords Epub Mobipocket HTML PDF and more The conversion is pretty good most of the time but you may find that the output is not quite as good as if you generated the file directly using a program such as Jutoh When you create a Jutoh project a Smashwords OpenDocument configuration is added in addition to OpenDocument The only difference between these i
125. ew Project File Conversion Options Choose whether to find text or HTML files in the location you previously specified You can import individual files later Please note that not all styling in HTM files vell be preserved V Take ttle from first line of each file Import encoding Unicode 6 bit UTF 8 V Add any HTML files Found htm htm xhtml xmi C Also find fies in foklers under the scanned folder recursively Multiple file conversion options You can specify whether to take the title from the first line of each file and the file encoding You don t have to tell Jutoh how to split the content because it ll simply create one section per found file HTML Jutoh can import from a single HTML file or a folder of several As with plain text import Jutoh will allocate a section per HTML file if importing from a folder if importing from a single file the same options will be presented as per DOCX or ODT import allowing you to specify a pattern to use for recognising individual sections As already mentioned HTML does not preserve all formatting because it can only do a basic job of converting CSS HTML styles to Jutoh styles CSS works very differently from Jutoh styles so there can never be an exact conversion You can either clean up the content and styles after import or you can clear the option Import basic CSS from HTML Epub and specify the styles for the first and subsequent paragraphs after each headin
126. f the book in the project outline and click on Properties 2 Choose the Document Document Properties menu command 3 Press Shift Alt Enter 4 In the Project Properties dialog click Document and then Edit Document Properties 58 Book Section Properties Title Chapter 9 Understanding Configurations Eile name Tags Guide type none Extra C55 Show in Y Table of Corterts V NavMap Y Spine Word court 3504 Indude this section for these formats Y EPUB v MOBI v ODT v TXT Notes The Book Section Properties dialog Here you can edit the title of the document the guide type see Chapter 15 Advanced Topics for information on guide types an optional HTML file name tags extra CSS to be applied to this section only whether to show the document in the table of contents NavMap and spine Epub Mobipocket only whether to include the section for a particular file format and finally notes for this document You can add tags to allow for conditional inclusion of exclusion of the section in your ebook for more on that see Chapter 15 Advanced Topics You can also see the word count for this document and the whole project by clicking on Compute and you can see the unique identifier of this document not editable Summary Now you ll have a good idea of what s possible with content editing and formatting and how to accelerate your typing and styling using shortcuts and favourites Y
127. f you need to use several viewers and choose between them you can add viewers in the Helpers page of the Jutoh Preferences dialog by clicking on Configure then Add Type the name of the helper application and browse for the command to use Now when you click on the Launch button Jutoh will offer you a menu of applications to use Similarly to preview Mobipocket books you can use Amazon s Kindle for PC and Kindle for Mac www amazon com gp kindle pc www amazon com gp kindle mac Formatting on this software can be different from on other devices such as the Kindle device and iPhone iPod Touch Instead or as well you can use Kindle Previewer for Windows or Mac This lets you select a number of different Kindle devices to test However don t rely on it always do some testing on hardware if you can On Windows you can use the Setup Wizard available from the View menu to download and install Kindle Previewer as well as Kindlegen Sony Reader Library can be downloaded from ebookstore sony com download This application will preview Epubs OpenOffice org is a free download from www openoffice org It s useful for converting Word and other word processor files to DOCX or ODT for import into Jutoh If you plan to create ODT files with Jutoh as well you can use OpenOffice org to convert your books to PDF Word and other files And of course you may grow to enjoy it as a regular word processor instead of using one that costs a
128. fix the lack of full left indent support on Mobipocket only By default this is TOC To stop any such conversion clear this setting You can use star to match multiple characters in the style name Use relative dimensions Jutoh can use the relative unit em to specify dimensions such as indentation and paragraph spacing or it can use mm If this option is checked em is used and this allows better scaling when the text size is changed by your book audience However Mobipocket doesn t allow precise specification of dimensions when using em so it s recommended to clear this option for Mobipocket and enable it for Epub and HTML formats Dimension units choose the units to use for non font dimensions such as margin and size Some platforms require pixel units for fixed layout books If you specify Default Jutoh will decide what units to use Font size units Choose the units to use for font sizes Some platforms require pixel units for fixed layout books If you specify Default Jutoh will decide what units to use RTL direction sets all paragraph styles to have right to left text direction URL attribute removal style specifies the character style containing URL attributes to remove so that only the default link attributes specified by the book reader software or in custom CSS will be used For example if you specify URL in this property containing blue and underlining attributes then blue underlined links wi
129. font such as fonts from the DejaVu family Embed it by adding an Embedded Font Document and specify a font substitution in your Epub configuration such as Times New Roman DejaVuSans For more details see Chapter 15 Advanced Topics If your system doesn t have a particular font that s used in the project then when the project is opened Jutoh will use a special global string table called Font Substitutions to try to find an equivalent font that is available If you use fonts not specified in this table you can add more substitutions go to Preferences click Strings select the Font Substitutions table and add more strings or edit existing ones to add references to the other fonts You can also change or disable the table that Jutoh uses via the setting Preferences Advanced Font substitution table If you re using Linux you can get the standard Microsoft fonts so that your project files are compatible when switching between operating systems On Ubuntu you can find the Restricted extras package in the Software Centre or use this command in a terminal window sudo apt get install ubuntu restricted extras Keep your main content apart from headings footnotes captions etc at 12pt this is the point size that Jutoh regards as the default size and which can therefore be left unspecified in the generated ebook The reader software and user will choose the best size Any font above or below 12pt will be sized relative t
130. for generating the ebook including all book sections style sheets the cover design configurations and project wide options You can save and open project files as you would any word processor file and you can open multiple projects simultaneously within Jutoh if you enable the View multiple projects option in Preferences the Project tab This will allow you to copy and paste between projects 33 As well as using the Open toolbar or file menu command you can double click in the list of Favourites a tab next to the Projects tab Or you can browse for the required project using the Explorer tool next to Favourites You can also use the File Recent Projects menu Yet another method is to double click on the file in your operating system s file manager and more techie users might want to invoke Jutoh from the command line passing the project file name If you make a project edit such as adding a new document or editing project properties an asterisk will appear next to the project name in the title bar until the project is saved If you edit an actual document such as a book section an asterisk will appear next to the document title in the title bar To save both document changes and any project changes use the Save button File Save command or type Ctrl S By default Jutoh will create a backup file a file with jutohbak appended to the name before opening the file so if there is a problem you can revert to the backup Jutoh also
131. format text this is shown with right click on Windows and Linux or control click on Mac Note that currently Jutoh applies the Footnote style to all footnotes when appended to a section or collated in the Endnotes section Therefore it doesn t matter what paragraph style the footnote is formatted with This may change in future Jutoh releases Configuration You can configure the way footnotes and endnotes are presented via the Footnotes and Endnotes page in Project Properties Click on Edit on the toolbar or Book Project Properties or type Alt Enter then click on Indexes and finally on Footnotes and Endnotes Metadata Contents Index Footnotes amp Endnotes Cover aa Styles Footnotes and Endnotes Indexes Configurations Strings Options Info Document Footnote style Footnote v Y Always apply style Base reference style Citation v Reference styles Supersoipt Y atataton and Supersoipt Y before each note Footnotes 0 Generate footnotes at the end of each section Unike endnotes footnotes are automabcaly added Propertes Se Pootraies Ada to the end of book chapters so you don t have to remember to update them Endnotes Generate endnotes in a separate section Section tte Endnotes Tite style Group style Endnotes Group Numbering Footnote and endnotes options In the footnotes and endnotes properties page you can choose whether the citations will be represented by superscript numbers or number
132. from a USB drive All information for a given Jutoh project is stored within a single file with extension jutoh which makes for easy transfer and backup What kinds of book can be created with Jutoh Jutoh is good for most book types including e novels e short story collections e biography e self help books 12 e articles e manuals e photographic books e textbooks with simple layout requirements You can insert images into Jutoh which can be photographic or artistic or could be used for symbols and decorative touches You need to be aware of some limitations however Jutoh 1 doesn t support tables they are supported in Jutoh 2 so complex tabular layout is more difficult though it can be done via raw HTML or by formatting in another tool and importing as a picture Also floating text boxes or complex rules and borders will need custom HTML CSS or pictures to achieve Mathematic or other formulae aren t supported but again can be achieved by inserting pictures As we said earlier don t expect the layout of a complex word processor document to be reproduced exactly as if exporting to PDF Jutoh s output in common with the ebooks supported by most current ebook readers is static and so is not like a web page with forms and multimedia Jutoh has experimental support for audio and video but these file types are not yet recognised by a wide variety of reader hardware and software and so should be appr
133. g This way you can use import as a kind of cleanup 45 mechanism to convert complex HTML to a simple Jutoh project and then back to HTML Epub Mobipocket Jutoh will attempt to read any images in the HTML Footnotes and alphabetical indexes will be imported as standard HTML implemented using links since HTML does not define these explicitly If you need these to be preserved use DOCX or ODT import 66 9 Where an HTML link defines both an anchor and a reference in the same a tag a bookmark symbol is generated just before the linked content since Jutoh can t handle both simultaneously This will be generated as an empty bookmark followed by the linked content Epub You can specify an Epub as a single file in the New Project Wizard Since Epub files contain HTML the same import restrictions apply as for HTML However Jutoh will be able to recreate the structure of the Epub accurately and will use the metadata it finds in the Epub Importing into an existing project You can still import from text HTML DOCX ODT and Epub at any time after initially creating your project using the File Import command However you will not be assisted in splitting up your imported file you will need to do 1t manually for example with Edit Split Document except for Epub files which will use the found structure and will give you the option to import the whole Epub under a new folder useful for merging several volumes into one book
134. g metadata styles covers and configurations We ll come to this later e Cover edits the ebook cover design O 3 Compile compiles the ebook using the currently selected configuration e Y Check checks an Epub using EpubCheck listing any errors it finds in the ebook e O Launch launches the ebook in the application that your operating system associates with it or a custom application that you define see Appendix B Configuring Jutoh Q Previous goes to the previous document in your book O Next goes to the next document in your book R Documents shows a menu of document types to add to the project Normally you ll just add Book Section documents for example for each chapter and the title page a Home goes to the Jutoh desktop containing shortcuts to various features and documents E Options shows the Preferences dialog Mi Help shows or hides the help window containing the Jutoh manual Qs Search type text and press return to search for content in the project Organizer 2 The Organizer shows all the documents in your project in the Projects tab A document corresponds to a chapter or section such as a title page You can click on each document to view and edit it You can view multiple projects in the Organizer if you wish though you will have to enable this first via the Preferences dialog Documents can be dragged to change the position in the book and a context menu is available if you righ
135. g more about the content than the promotion You can also create an author s page on Facebook and invite your friends to become fans There it is all about engagement with users Now you have a blog Where do you find readers One place to look is on the book lover forums for example Kindle Boards Amazon reader forums Again the message here is do not over promote become part of the community Share your own enthusiasm and participate in the conversations that are taking place People are very turned off by relentless self promotion It pays to be discreet And then we have Twitter Twitter gets a lot of flak Its very name seems to suggest triviality but in fact it is a very useful tool in building an online presence It is easy to find like minded people supplying you with support and lots of information especially about indie publishing and marketing It is also a great book promotion tool if used correctly Once again the advice is be subtle Do not go on and on about your book Try to be interesting and supply interesting information related to your special subject Find the people who are interested in your special subject and follow them There is still a role for traditional media in marketing your book be it a local newspaper or a special interest magazine They are looking for stories but once again be creative Find a hook and an angle that is fresh Create a story from your special subject rather than pitching a piece about a
136. ger inserted before paragraphs You might want to clear this if you have long paragraphs containing footnotes for example and want to achieve accurate navigation regardless of any styling side effects that can be caused by bookmarks within paragraphs on the Kindle platform Credit Jutoh adds Jutoh as a book producer in the Epub Mobipocket metadata Start page guide type specifies the guide type that will be substituted for XYySTARTPAGE in a section s guide type to indicate the first reading page For iBooks it is other reader start page and for Mobipocket it is text Visible URLs specifies whether the URL will be added to the text for printable documents If None no URLs will be added If Always the URL will always be added If Intelligent Jutoh will check whether the URL is already in the linked text Epub version Specifies the Epub version to generate Epub 3 generation is currently experimental This category controls style related options More about styles can be found in Chapter 13 Working With Style Sheets e Style sheet specifies the style sheet to be used in this configuration Paragraphs to exclude the comma separated paragraph styles whose paragraphs should be excluded from the book You can use to mean all characters for example Only will cause all paragraphs with a style name beginning Only to be excluded except for those specified in Paragraphs to include
137. gly against a static classic web page that is difficult to maintain and update What you need is a simple dynamic site where you can talk about your special subject and hopefully create some interest about your writing Fortunately there are lots of free very easy to use blogging platforms that make the process a whole lot less painful than it used to be These are the big three e www wordpress com 148 www blogger com e www tumblr com The secret to successful blogging is to have frequently updated quality content It is hard work and it takes some time to pay off but it is also good writing practice Preparation helps a lot so focus on your special subject and brainstorm out a list of topics for future blog posts If there is something in the news that links to your special subject seize the moment and blog about it Make sure each post you create is well tagged so that people can find it easily And keep everything as fresh and interesting as possible post videos pictures and make podcasts just to keep everything lively Have a blog roll of other blogs that connect to your special subject and engage and comment on those blogs You will find this drives people back to your blog if your comments are relevant and not overly self promotional Make sure you have clear links to your books on the site so that if you have written a good piece people can find out more about you and your writing easily but again the key is to make the blo
138. h side and other properties You won t be able to see any change in the editor but Jutoh will apply the changes to your Epub book Image Properties These image properties wil only show in some export formats and will not have an effect within the editor Float mode left v Left padding 20px Right padding Top padding 20px Bottom padding Width 100 Height Max width Max height Alternative text A map of the area URL http wwew jutoh com SVG alternative media map svg Name map Original Format PNG C Preserve original Format Eo ema Cue The Image Properties dialog If setting the float mode to left or right text that should flow around it should be in the same paragraph as the image Otherwise there will be extra paragraph spacing around the image Image size specified in the individual image properties as distinct from the resizing done by Jutoh as described below is respected by some viewers and not others In particular early Kindle devices will ignore the specified pixel width and height and will use the original resolution scaled to fit if necessary whereas newer versions of Kindle hardware and software take pixel and percentage size 97 specifications into account Most Epub viewers recognise pixel cm and percentage size specification Note that separate image documents in your project created via Document Add Image Document or the toolbar new document command are not included in you
139. hapter Normally whether the numbering is global or starts again for each chapter the chapter headings will be shown You can suppress chapter headings by leaving the Group style blank Importing footnotes Footnotes are imported from ODT files but not from HTML files since there is no representation for footnotes in HTML and it s impossible to distinguish them from regular linked text So if importing from HTML you will need to copy the footnote text into new Jutoh footnotes Summary We ve seen how to build special index sections in Jutoh We ve mentioned styles and style sheets from time to time throughout this guide now we ll devote a chapter to them as styles are important in Jutoh 112 Chapter 13 Working With Style Sheets In this chapter we explain how to work with styles important for formatting your books consistently and also important for such features as automated table of contents creation Introduction Style sheets are important in controlling the appearance of a book when converted to the supported formats Style sheets contain styles for paragraphs paragraph styles spans of text character styles and lists list styles You can have more than one style sheet and switch between them by changing the Style sheet property in a configuration or by having multiple configurations specifying different style sheets Most users will probably stick with one style sheet If your document appearance isn
140. haviour to work the hyphen and non space character to the left or right of the hyphen must be formatted in the same or no character style Add thin spaces around punctuation inserts non breaking thin spaces around punctuation to conform with typographical convention for French books If there is white space already in position it is replaced by the thin space but existing white space is not necessary Thin space entity the HTML code to use for a thin space By default it is thinsp Not all fonts support this entity you can sometimes work around it for Epub files by embedding a font that supports it Some but not all Kindle devices will render it correctly Or you can use an image instead although this can slow down rendering considerably This code will insert an image you should also add a media document with a suitable small white bitmap lt img width 4 style width 4px src media emptybitmap4x1 png alt gt e Orphan control for single letter words inserts non breaking spaces after single letter words to avoid orphan words at the end of lines e Character substitutions Semicolon separated pairs of decimal Unicode substitutions For example the value 8239 160 8201 160 would convert two kinds of thin space to non breaking spaces e Use div tag determines whether the div tag is used instead of p e Extra metadata extra meta elements for the metadata section of the Epub or Mobipocket OPF file e Widow co
141. he project Now we have the book in Jutoh we can create an ebook In the bottom left part of the Jutoh window you 1l see the Control Panel listing configurations If you don t see the Control Panel press Alt 7 or choose View Control Panel 22 Control Panel x Build Files Configuration Epub v C The Control Panel Each configuration corresponds to an ebook format Select Epub if it s not already selected and click Compile After it s compiled click Launch and if you have an ebook viewer such as Adobe Digital Editions installed your ebook will be shown BE Asobe Digital Edtions Chapter 1 In my job I mix with some very funny people They don t know they re furny and if they did the realisation might change them M might make them behave with blandness or with exaggerated eccentricity And that would really spoil my other job When Em not tending to my eccentrics I write No man could have better inspiration than the wonderful people who look to me to assuage ther endless thirst for caffeine and thetr craving for doughnuts To you I may be Just the gregarious barista chatting up the attractive clientele 1 may seem harmless enough at the controls of the cafe s polished amd beastly hissing machines Bat beware elements of your personality may fnd their way into my writing You have no protection agains this forced extraction of the essence of your being I don t ask you to sign a walver And maybe ane
142. he specified image is drawn at the top left of the object rectangle without tiling or scaling Centred image the specified image is drawn centred within the object rectangle e Tiled image the specified image is tiled to fill the object rectangle Stretched image the specified image is stretched to fill the object rectangle The Texture field shows either a solid colour or a specified image depending on the Style setting Click this field to choose a new colour or image or you can paste an image into the field by clicking on the Paste button The Scale field can be used to adjust the scaling of the image Border style can be None Single Double or or Triple A double border uses the two border colours specified underneath the style field while the triple border style uses the first border colour the object background colour and then the second border colour using Border 2 Width for both the inner and the third border widths Text Type text in the field provided if you wish to add text to this object Click on Insert Keyword to see a choice of keywords that will be replaced when the cover design is regenerated The keywords are taken from the metadata and also from the currently selected global and project specific string tables selected in the current configuration if any You can also specify the font and the text colour Exporting your design If you need a copy of your cover design for example to upload t
143. hin Jutoh first check that the path in the Helpers dialog refers to a file that exists If that s not the problem perhaps Java isn t installed You can check this by opening a terminal window and typing java If there s an error message that indicates that the command is not found go to www java com and download and install Java eSpeak If you wish to encode MP3 files with the eSpeak text to speech system instead of using the built in SAPI voices you can download the installer from espeak sourceforge net download html and run it Then configure Jutoh for using eSpeak in the Speech tab of the Jutoh Preferences dialog LAME If you wish to encode MP3 files you will also need the LAME MP3 encoder You can get and install LAME using your favourite package management software For example sudo apt get install lame Or you can get a binary or the source code from lame sourceforge net After installing the Lame command will now be available and you just need to set lame no full path required as the executable in the Jutoh MP3 Preferences page How to use Jutoh with an external drive Overview Jutoh helps you access your data on a mobile drive such as a USB flash memory drive You can also run Jutoh from a mobile drive so that all Jutoh settings are stored on the drive and not on the computer This is convenient if you will be writing on multiple machines perhaps home and work and you don t want to install Jutoh permanent
144. his 1 Most frequently you ll be choosing Book Section from the menu 4 Right click in the project hierarchy and select New Document from the menu Now choose your document type and title in the New Document dialog that shows 5 Auto paste by copying some data in another application twice in quick succession Windows only Now click on the title of the new document and enter the new page title You can delete a document by selecting in the project outline and hitting the Delete key or right clicking and selecting Delete Note that this operation cannot be undone Moving documents You can move a document in the project outline by dragging it to a new position using the left mouse button If you drop the document onto a folder the document will be placed inside the folder Otherwise the document will be inserted in front of the drop target You can veto insertion into a folder by holding down the control key as you drag and you can force adding the document as a child by holding down the shift key If you need finer control of where you move documents you can use the cut and paste method Right click over the document you wish to move in the project hierarchy and select Cut from the popup menu Now go to where you wish to move the document right click again and select Paste Before This Scrap Paste After This Document or Paste As Child of this Document Managing project files Each project file contains all the data needed
145. his from happening If your cover is still missing 1t may be that the Cover design 86 configuration option is not set to the correct cover design name e Missing Table of Contents See whether the configuration property Use guide is checked in your configuration if it s not checked some of the Goto commands in a Kindle book won t work e Section too long Jutoh may complain about a section being more than 300Kb in length this means that some Epub readers will fail to display the book correctly because they can t cope with large sections You will need to break this section up perhaps by creating a hierarchy of subsections under one chapter e Unresolved URL Jutoh complains about missing page link targets which might happen if you link to a page that you later delete When compiling ODT files will also complain if you have a page link that does not reference a bookmark since this is required for linear documents such as ODT files that are not composed of individual XHTML sections e Unresolved footnote or index entry These errors are flagged by Jutoh after a compile and usually mean that you forgot to use Book Update to update the endnotes section or index section after adding index entries Headings used improperly This is part formatting part structural however if you don t apply heading styles in a rational way for example if you follow a Heading 1 with a Heading 4 instead of a Heading 2
146. his you will be able to work out what you need to change in your project Getting help 28 There are various ways to get help in Jutoh The help window containing the Jutoh manual is shown when you click on the Help button on the toolbar or type Ctrl H or use the menu command Help Contents Use the same command to close it again The help window shows in the main window if you want to close it maximize it to take up the whole main window area or unpin it to show it as a separate window use the buttons at the top right of the help window circled in red in the picture below If you ve maximized it you can use the same button to restore it back to its normal size You can drag an unpinned help window back to the main window by moving it until a blue rectangle appears near the edge of the main window and then dropping it The help window itself has controls for showing or hiding the help contents changing the text size and navigating around the help Creatingt booksUsingJuteh Jutoh Chapter 3 The Jutoh User Interface e Edt Format Tools Document Book Yaw Helo DO alk y B Edt Cover Comple Check Launch 25 Be 2 ex Search a t 4 ockmarks v E E Hor Previous teed 2 Moh Quick Start 5 Jutoh Technical Tips This topic aims to quickly get you started in Jutoh without needing to read through the rest of the manual immediately Youll learn how to create a new project fom existing files and create an Epub file
147. hones PCs and Macs as well as on Amazon s Kindle hardware To create files suitable for processing by Kindlegen Jutoh generates XHTML CSS and other files that are nearly identical to the ones used for Epub creation However the original Mobipocket format KF7 is not quite as flexible as Epub and there are restrictions as well as features unique to Mobipocket Jutoh proves the configuration option Optimize for Mobipocket which does the following e Within lists there are no paragraph classes only list item classes since adding paragraph tags in lists breaks KF7 rendering 139 e Multiple paragraphs in a list item are faked using line breaks e Link anchors are inserted before paragraphs not within them because a Mobipocket bug can cause styling loss if navigation causes only part of the paragraph to be visible Jutoh optimizes code so the book will look as good as possible on both older KF7 devices and newer devices supporting KF8 Where generated CSS code is different for each platform Jutoh uses media queries so the appropriate code is used on each platform Jutoh may perform other tweaks in future releases The Optimize for Mobipocket option is switched on by default for the initial Mobipocket configuration Although Jutoh takes care of most of the low level Mobipocket Kindle technical details you may also wish to read Amazon s guidelines for advice on presentation image size video formats and so on s3 amazonaws c
148. ic Embedded Font Embed Family Dejavu Serif Import File File name fonts DejaYuSerif BoldItalic ttf Export File Media type font truetype v Style italic v Weight bold v Description 4 f Sansation_Bold f DejavuSerif f DejaYuSerif BoldItalic Font document Jutoh will generate the appropriate CSS so that the viewer can use the correct font file for each combination of italic style and weight If font embedding isn t working at first check that the font family specified in the font document is identical to the font name you use within styles or within your font substitutions Otherwise the ereader will not be able to find the correct font to use Embedding media Jutoh lets you embed audio and video into Epub and Mobipocket books This is only supported in some readers for example iBooks and Amazon may not accept Mobipocket containing multimedia and media in locally transferred Mobipocket files may be blocked For video in iBooks Apple recommends that you use H 264 compression at VGA resolution The poster image should be 150x300 pixels Audio should be stereo AAC MP4 256kps encoded using iTunes Amazon s guidelines for formatting Kindle books with information about audio and video formats is available at kindlegen s3 amazonaws com AmazonKindlePublishingGuidelines pdf To embed a media object follow these three steps 1 Add a media document Use the Documents toolbar button or Document Add Media Doc
149. icit in your document and add bookmarks to them For example you might use Heading 1 Heading 2 Heading 3 and so on If you haven t opted to add a table of contents page Jutoh will still use the found entries to create the NavMap To revert to simple mode again run the wizard and the entries will be deleted telling Jutoh to generate a basic contents page if specified If an explicit table of contents page is found in the project by searching for the title Table of Contents or by finding a document whose Guide Type is set to toc in its document properties then Jutoh will suppress the basic contents page to avoid duplication Note that if you are using basic contents creation the entries are formatted with TOC Entry 1 if available and the contents heading is formatted in TOC Heading if available 107 Specifying and stripping link styling Links from the contents page will be formatted using the character style specified by Link style in the Table of Contents Wizard Preferences page By default this is the style called URL that Jutoh adds to your style sheet by default This makes the links look good in Jutoh but 1f your book reader uses different colours for links by default you may have a colour clash So you can have Jutoh strip out the URL styling when generating the ebooks by specifying the value of URL attribute removal style in your configuration It ll only strip out
150. if it were in ems the relative size would combine with the paragraph relative text size So please avoid using text size in ad hoc styles define text size in paragraph styles where possible Otherwise you will see inconsistent text size when scaling the ebook You can eliminate non paragraph styling by selecting text and then choosing Format Text Reset Text Formatting CSS customisation If you find that Jutoh s CSS style creation is inadequate for any reason you can tell Jutoh what CSS 121 style to use instead of the current definition These will be used only for Epub and Mobipocket format generation Click on Properties in the Styles page and you ll see this dialog You can see the current CSS definition as 1t will be output to Epub and Mobipocket Check Use custom CSS and edit the definition if you want to use an alternative definition Remember that if you subsequently make changes to the style through the usual dialogs it won t change your CSS definition until you clear the Use custom CSS option Note that if you customise style definitions or use the HTML style be sure to click Check after generating an Epub file in case you have introduced HTML errors When you check a project Jutoh invokes Adobe s EpubCheck tool to examine the Epub structure and content You need to have Java installed for EpubCheck to work If you need further CSS customisation you can edit the sheet properties by clicking the Style Sheet Pro
151. ing Jutoh on Linux The Linux version has a launcher script called jutoh linux which uses a relative path to the actual binary so when using it your current directory should be the drive itself 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 Launching Jutoh on Mac On Mac there is no alias so you need to navigate to the Applications Jutoh Mac Jutoh x yz folder and launch it from there 161 Appendix B Configuring Jutoh There are many ways to configure Jutoh to suit your use of it whether it s telling Jutoh how to launch helper applications or changing behaviour such as automatically checking Epub files after creation We ll describe the most important configuration opti
152. ing styles that reflect the structure of your document Heading 1 Heading 2 and so on so that Jutoh can deduce a table of contents You can use custom shortcuts and favourites or the Formatting Palette to make this quick and painless Indentation doesn t work Don t use spaces for indents since they will be ignored use named paragraph styles with indentation Apply styles with the drop down style control on the editor toolbar or with Format Styles or via the context menu For example use the Body Text First Indent style in the style sheet that Jutoh creates Also Mobipocket has poor indentation support no right indent and fixed indentation size so it may simply be a limitation of the format Paragraph spacing doesn t work Mobipocket doesn t recognise spacing dimensions of less than 25 tenths of millimetre when the configuration option Use relative scaling is checked so check the numbers in the style dialog or clear Use relative scaling in your Mobipocket configuration Also check that the paragraph in question has a named not automatic style and then examine its style definition in Project Properties It may have a base style that is providing some of the attributes if those properties are not defined in the actual style Another problem might be that you are using blank lines to space paragraphs out Don t do that Use named styles with the appropriate after paragraph and before paragraph spacing Occas
153. ing to search for the Heading 1 style and format each table of contents entry with TOC Entry 1 Click on the TOC level control to change the level number and specify the heading styles that will be used for the other two levels When you click on Next Jutoh will build the table of contents and show the results in the next page for you to edit or accept as is Table of Contents Entries Remove edit or delete entries that wil be shown in the Table of Contents and in the NavMap Jutoh may add a Table of Contents entry to this list it won t be shown in the contents page but it wil be induded in the NavMap When you press Next the Table of Contents will be rebuilt if specified Entries A Table of Contents From the Horse s Mouth Preface Bring on the revolution About the author How this book is structured Conventions and terms used in this book Title Tide Page Level Document id Bookmark auto_bookmark_table_of_content Change Target Table of Contents Wizard entries page If you find that Jutoh hasn t found the headings you thought it would click Back edit the options and try again You might need cancel the wizard and apply styles to your content for example if you don t have consistent heading styles You also need to make sure that Jutoh will find headings without skipping levels Jutoh will complain if there are such jumps For example going from level 1 to level 3 is not allowed although yo
154. installed Go to www java com and download and install Java eSpeak If you wish to encode MP3 files with the eSpeak text to speech system instead of using the built in SAPI voices you can download the installer from espeak sourceforge net download html and run it Then configure Jutoh for using eSpeak in the Speech tab of the Jutoh Preferences dialog LAME If you wish to encode MP3 files you will also need the LAME MP3 encoder Download it from lame sourceforge net links php Binaries and set the full path of the LAME executable 1ame exe in the MP3 tab of the Jutoh Preferences dialog Installing on Mac OS X Jutoh 156 Download the Mac version of Jutoh from from www jutoh com download htm and open the Jutoh x y img file The disk image will be mounted automatically and you can then copy the Jutoh folder to a suitable place on your hard disk such as the Applications folder You can drag the Jutoh icon to the dock for quick access You can uninstall Jutoh by simply dragging its folder to the trash can Kindlegen You will need to download and install Amazon s Kindlegen if you wish to create Mobipocket Kindle files In the Jutoh Preferences dialog under Helpers or in the Setup Wizard click on Help Me Install Kindlegen Then as per the instructions for Windows above click on Download and Install to get Jutoh to perform the whole process automatically To install Kindlegen manually download it from www amazon com kindlepub
155. ional use of blank lines is permitted though especially on the title page Unexpected page break in large paragraphs Some readers including the Sony Reader don t cope elegantly with large paragraphs and break them early leaving large amounts of space before the end of the page This is related to widows and orphans handling You can try a combination of breaking up large paragraphs and adding this custom CSS to the Jutoh project body widows 1 orphans 1 all on one line or on multiple lines it doesn t matter 88 which See Chapter 13 Working With Style Sheets CSS customisation for how to add custom CSS to the style sheet file that Jutoh generates Justification problems In your paragraph styles you can define left alignment right alignment full justification centering or indeterminate alignment leave it up to the reading software Jutoh won t display full justification in the editor but 1t will appear in the ebook Note that leaving alignment indeterminate may cause justification in some readers such as Mobipocket but ragged left on others such as Adobe Digital Editions Paragraphs aren t centred iBooks has a bug or feature that means centring can be ignored You can fix this by checking Optimize for iBooks in your Epub configuration it generates a span tag for each paragraph that causes centring to work Multiple paragraphs per list item are all numbered or bulleted You can create contin
156. ions in Configuring Jutoh Documented the new configuration options Generate colour Generate generic font names Character substitutions Orphan control for single letter words Custom paper width Custom paper height Dots per inch Extra metadata Include media documents matching tags Exclude media documents matching tags e Added some more tips to the troubleshooting chapter Version 1 4 August 22nd 2012 e Added notes about using SVG images to Working with Pictures e Added references to DOCX import where ODT import is mentioned 175 e Added a troubleshooting tip for black text on a black background Added a description of the font dialog in Editing and Formatting Content Added a description of continuation list paragraphs in Editing and Formatting Content Added iBooks section to Troubleshooting Your Book Added a description for the new configuration option Cover image format Version 1 3 July 18th 2012 Documented the Insert Non Breaking Hyphen and Insert Non Breaking Space commands in the Editing and Formatting Content chapter Documented the new configuration options Convert non breaking hyphen to hyphen Enable fixed layout Page width Page height Add thin spaces around punctuation and Thin space entity Extended the section on fonts in Editing and Formatting Content documenting the Font Substitution string table Enhanced the section on embedding fonts in Advanced Topics Added a section Creating fi
157. k at the Jutoh errors first since they show you where in the text they occur fixing these may also fix the Epub errors These are some of the more common errors that can be flagged up by EpubCheck e Bad URL syntax use of non registered URI schema If you find something like lt a href doc 17 gt My Page lt a gt in the Epub it means Jutoh couldn t find the referenced page it might have been deleted So you can go back to the editor and fix this link In fact Jutoh will also give you its own more specific error message about this and will allow you to pinpoint the paragraph containing the bad link so normally you can fix it without reference to the XHTML Fix the earlier bad link error and the XHTML problem will go away Bad date date value is not valid If you enter a date in the metadata that is not in the correct format EpubCheck will warn you giving details of what s allowed 85 e Unfinished element This can happen if you miss out important metadata such as the book title e File name contains non ascii characters Don t put Unicode characters for example Chinese characters in an image file name as specified in the Image Properties dialog You can apply Epub checking to Mobipocket configurations since Jutoh generates Epub like files before converting them to Mobipocket but you will need to check Generate Epub in your Mobipocket configurations Note that the generated Epub will initially have
158. ks in your Epub configuration the default setting it includes the file com apple ibooks display options xml in the folder META INF inside the Epub So try clearing this setting in your configuration to remove this file Also check that iTunesMetadata plist hasn t been added by Tunes if so compile the file again Import export errors Import errors You may sometimes get unexpected results when importing into Jutoh Here are some potential issues e Imperfect styles Jutoh does its best to convert CSS HTML styles to Jutoh styles but the two systems are very different and 1t cannot do a perfect job So if you import from HTML you may need to edit the styles or replace them Alternatively you can clear the option Import basic CSS from HTML Epub and have Jutoh use a small number of styles for headings and 92 paragraphs e Unexpected automatic styles When importing from DOCX or ODT you may be surprised to find a lot of automatic styles in your document where they did not appear to be automatic when edited in your word processor This is because the word processor may hide the fact you have applied ad hoc styling and show you the base style Jutoh simply shows the automatic style names and this can reveal an inconsistently formatted document Ad hoc and inconsistent styles can also give rise to frustration when splitting the file in the New Project Wizard and creating an advanced table of contents because it s hard to sp
159. le ereaders emulation is safer If you wish to add small caps to the first few words of your chapters there s a handy option in the 133 Document Cleanup dialog accessed from the Book menu to do just that Before using it you 1l need to create a Small Caps character style How to add an ISBN to your books Some platforms require you to supply an ISBN for your ebooks For example to get your books into the premium Smashwords catalogue you need an ISBN for each ebook This needs to be separate for each book edition paperbacks hardbacks and distinct ebook editions for different platforms all need separate ISBNs You can buy a set of ISBNs from the relevant agency in the UK it s Nielsen or you can see if your ebook publisher such as Smashwords can supply ISBNs Having got your ISBN where do you put it Go to the metadata in Project Properties just click on the Edit button on the toolbar and click on the button next to the Identifier field Click Add to add a new value to this element and choose Add ISBN Enter the ISBN just the number including dashes into the Value field Now delete the original value Element 1 OK so you have different ISBNs for different ebook editions but you want to publish your ebook to different platforms with different ISBNs without having to edit separate Jutoh files for each edition The way to accomplish this is via string tables String tables allow you to set up
160. le of contents entries such as TOC Entry 2 and give them first line indents instead of full left indents Go to Project Properties Styles and in Indents amp Spacing set Left to 0 and Left first line to a non zero indent value such as 120 The downside of this is that long items that wrap will not be fully indented but in most cases the items will fit and will appear indented Alternatively you can adjust the Mobipocket configuration option Styles for indent fix which converts matching paragraph styles to first line indent instead of full left indent The default setting is TOC which applies this change to all table of contents entry styles You can clear this entry if you do not want to adjust any styles Multimedia in Kindle books Although the Amazon Publishing Guidelines describe how to embed audio and video 1t seems that they will currently not accept books containing multimedia and any existing books containing audio or video were submitted during an experimental beta phase Locally downloaded Kindle books will have their multimedia blocked This may change in future At the time of writing JavaScript is not supported in Kindle books submitted via KDP Checking your Kindle ebook For automated checking you can can check the Generate Epub option in your Mobipocket configuration so that Check can work on the Epub equivalent of the Mobipocket file the formats share files and most formatting Some Mobipocket specific H
161. lect the toolbar to customise using the drop down Toolbar control Then click on the checkbox next to each tool name to enable or disable that tool You can t change the ordering of tools separators will be removed automatically if a whole group of tools is disabled Another way of showing the Customise Toolbars dialog is to right click on a toolbar and select Customise from the context menu It will select the appropriate toolbar Customising auto replace Auto replace allows you to type text and have it replaced by a different symbol or sequence of symbols To edit auto replace items use the View Auto Replace Preferences command The Auto Replace Preferences dialog has two tabs one called Replace with general textual replacement options and one called Custom Quotes Auto Replace Preferences ERAS Replace Custom Quotes Auto replace replaces text as you type Y Enable auto replace Auto replace tems 7 v c becomes Y r becomes E v euro becomes Y becomes Replace The Auto Replace Preferences dialog To add an auto replace item click Add and enter the Replace and With text Click on the button to use a symbol selection dialog that shows all the possible Unicode characters Auto replace works when you have entered the target text and then a space or punctuation followed by a space Jutoh will search back and see whether the text matches any in its list and if so replaces it with the ap
162. ledge and tools to correct errors that you may encounter as you create your books Next we go into the details of inserting sizing and converting the pictures in your book 95 Chapter 11 Working With Pictures In addition to text Jutoh supports pictures also referred to as images within the Jutoh user interface Jutoh has a variety of methods to convert and resize pictures this chapter tells you all you need to know Inserting and editing pictures To show pictures in your book you can paste them into a page or choose Format Insert Picture Inserting the picture will show a browser that displays thumbnails of all the pictures in a folder Insert Picture 17 apps D bc35250904251202c98c5t A WS PG PG A D bin i T O Book P x e Buffalo ce to ES cardbackup alied1jpg alfea2 1p9 D cdmages D Dick O Documents and Settings al ic03 pg 7 CameraPanasonic O carolyn E Cat JPG PG PG O dropbox B Graphis TO D bugs Ta ha i 7 Camera a os pg alfa 05 tpg al ico6 jpg JPG PS PG v gt The picture browser dialog If the inserted or pasted image width is larger than the one specified in Resize images to max in Import Preferences the image will be resized before insertion into the project You can use these formats in Jutoh e PNG good for high quality artwork that should not be compressed PNGs tend to take up a bit more space than JPEGs sometimes a lot mo
163. lette shows a list of styles to the right of your document similar to the Styles and Formatting pane in Microsoft Word In this picture below the Heading 1 style is being shown and there s a description of the details of the style at the bottom 53 a w y E g uy Y Launch Previous Next Documents Home Options Palette x im fas e H Tools Styles Favourites Glossary Term E g Started m Headers h gt Clear Formatting 2 how easy itis to Heading 2 Jutoh project and New gt 7 Heading 3 i E ae v Describe Style g Heading 4 Manage Styles Heading 5 Help Heading 6 e Lena odt as the 3 Heading 1 paragraph style tton on the toolb on th P Based on Normal Centred Space before 1 New Project 60 Space after 20 Level 1 Font Times will take you New Roman 16pt Bold steps for page Bookmark auto_bookmark_1 v v More The formatting palette and context More menu E Appendix Paragraph styles You can show or hide the formatting palette using the command Format Formatting Palette or Alt P then click on the Styles tab There are two other tabs in the palette the Tools tab shows all the available tools that are also shown on the horizontal toolbar and Favourites shows any styles commands or symbols that you may have marked as favourites in the shortcut editor see the next topic The formatting palette will only be presented when a document of the a
164. lf or obtain some from Smashwords or other book distribution site Consider getting a small number of your books printed using low cost print on demand and perhaps a service that will undertake cover design as well as organising printing You can then use it as a sales tool sending them to journalists and bloggers selling them at events and even donating them to your libraries to raise your profile Consider promotional give aways Giving your book away can be a very effective tool for getting publicity and reviews On Amazon you can give your book away for a few days so long as your book isn t for sale via a different retailer Often a free book will rise to the top of the free book charts for a particular genre giving it visibility that it may never have had before Essential reading Marketing Your Book An Author s Guide by Alison Baverstock The Smashwords Book Marketing Guide by Mark Coker This book Chapter 16 Understanding Ebook Formats and Platforms Summary We ve covered some common sense approaches to publicising yourself and your books If you have further ideas do write in and tell us so we can include them in a future edition of this book We ve also come to the end of the book I hope you enjoyed it if so do pass the book around to your friends and colleagues If you don t already have a copy of Jutoh why not visit www jutoh com and give the demo a whirl We support Windows Mac and Linux and one pur
165. lishing at the time of writing it is bundled as a zip file which you can unarchive to any suitable folder such as Applications Kindlegen Then set the path of the kindlegen program in Jutoh s Preferences dialog under Helpers For example the path might be Applications Kindlegen kindlegen If Kindlegen isn t working within Jutoh first check that the path in the Helpers dialog refers to a file that exists If that s not the problem perhaps Java isn t installed You can check this by opening a terminal window and typing java If there s an error message that indicates that the command is not found go to www java com and download and install Java eSpeak If you wish to encode MP3 files with the eSpeak text to speech system instead of using the built in Apple Speech Manager voices you can download the zip file from espeak sourceforge net download html Once you ve unzipped the files you need to copy the espeak data files to either your home directory or to usr share So assuming you downloaded the zip file to say tmp you might then do this in a terminal window cd tmp unzip espeak 1 37 zip cp speak ln sm Applications espealt sit cp r espeak 1 37 espeak data espeak data Clean up ii ie ie Sspoalk l 37 rm espeak 1 37 zip Now you can configure Jutoh in Speech Preferences to use the binary file Applications espeak 1 37 speak LAME If you wish to encode MP3 files you will also need the LAM
166. ll be written to the book XHTML formats only Use specified image names if enabled names entered in the Image Properties dialog will be used to form image file names It will be up to the user to specify unique filenames except where the same image is being used Epub and Mobipocket only Use SVG images check to use SVG vector image alternatives where specified for each image The SVG image should be added as a media object and Generate media objects should be enabled XHTML formats only Advanced Formatting This category contains options for controlling the way special formatting is output whether to use special fields for the word processor to use or by generating the content explicitly Special index formatting check to output index entries as special items if supported by the target format If this option is cleared links and an index page will be output explicitly Smashwords ODT requires this to be switched off Special footnote formatting check to output footnotes and endnotes as special items if supported by the target format If this option is cleared linked footnotes or endnotes will be output explicitly Smashwords ODT requires this to be switched off Use outline levels check to output outline levels if specified in your heading styles Currently applies to ODT output only where checking this option allows a table of contents to appear in PDF files generated by OpenOffice org Writer or LibreOffice Writer Chapt
167. ll have both attributes removed in the final book However if a link was styled with red then the red colour will be retained and just any underlining removed If this property is set to none or left empty then no attribute removal will be done Use heading text size if enabled text sizes will be written for styles that match Heading style prefix Clear this to use the ebook viewer s default heading sizes Abbreviate style names if enabled style names in the HTML and CSS files will be abbreviated instead of being derived from the original style names Optimize style sheet if enabled Jutoh will remove unused styles from the CSS style sheet Emulate small caps if enabled Jutoh emits actual capitals and a smaller font size for viewers such as ADE that ignore the font variant attribute On by default Convert horizontal bar to em dash converts Unicode 8213 horizontal bar to Unicode 8212 em dash and adds a non breaking span Some Epub viewers such as Adobe Digital Editions 76 do not support horizontal bar and it is essential punctuation for Spanish For the non breaking behaviour to work the bar and non space character to the left or right of the bar must be formatted in the same or no character style e Convert non breaking hyphen to hyphen converts Unicode 8209 non breaking hyphen to an ordinary hyphen and adds a non breaking span Some Epub viewers do not support a non breaking hyphen For the non breaking be
168. ly on any one machine Note mobile drives are easily lost and they can fail so please remember to back up your files regularly to another disk These are the different combinations that are possible 1 Not mobile running Jutoh from your computer as normal storing files on your hard drive Application settings such as templates icons window sizes and registration information are also stored on your computer 2 Data mobile running Jutoh from your computer as normal but storing your project files on a mobile drive Application settings are stored on your computer 3 Settings mobile running Jutoh from your computer but storing Jutoh s settings on a mobile drive 4 Fully mobile running Jutoh from the mobile drive and storing your files and applications settings on the mobile drive 159 In scenarios 2 3 and 4 you can use your data on different computers and different types of computer You can be working on a Mac one day a Linux machine the next and Windows the day after that Of course you can still do this with 1 but 1t will be more awkward to copy files between machines With scenario 4 fully mobile you can store the Jutoh application and its data files on the mobile drive as well as your own projects Jutoh can install itself onto the mobile drive for Windows Linux and Mac operation and no components of Jutoh will need to be stored on the computer s hard drive In the next section
169. mal text Basic Latin Character code 11 hex 17 dec Erom Unicode The symbol selector dialog Note that not all ebook readers support non English Unicode character sets using their default fonts To 49 show say Romanian diacritics in Adobe Digital Editions you need to embed a suitable Unicode font for example DejaVuSans and specify a font substitution in your configuration the embedded font is used For more on embedding fonts see Chapter 15 Advanced Topics Pictures You can insert pictures into your document with Format Insert Picture Shift Ctrl C or simply by pasting a picture from the clipboard If you use the insert method the picture will be stored in the original file format if you paste from the clipboard the picture is stored as a PNG By default Jutoh will convert pictures to JPEG when you actually generate the ebook so you don t generally need to worry about inserting a format that s compatible with Epub or Mobipocket at time of insertion If you insert a picture that s very large in dimensions not file size Jutoh will resize it at the time of insertion You can switch this off and change the maximum size using the Resize images to max setting in Import Preferences A picture is shown and edited in Jutoh as simply a character in a paragraph Typically a large picture will have its own paragraph Although it won t be shown visually within Jutoh you can adjust floating options by right cli
170. mation The fields marked with an asterisk are mandatory dentfier Lena Author Felx Carswell Step 1 metadata Step 2 enter the project name and location You can leave the Ebook Formats as they are unless you want to change the initial available configurations You have the choice of basing the new project on another Jutoh file useful if you have a house style that you wish to use for multiple projects All the styles cover designs string tables configurations settings and documents including media and font resources will be copied from the template to the new file 38 New Project Project Location Now enter the desired name for your Jutoh project and the project location Your project pame Lena Project folder c tempiLena use template itemplone two Ebook Formats Jutoh wil configure your project for an intial choice of ebook formats creating one configuration per format but you can add more later Please note that Mobipocket creation requires you to download the third party kindiegen command line tool Tf in doubt simply leave the selections as they are Initial Formats Y Epb v Mobipocket Y OpenDocument Y Text Y Smashwords OpenDocument Step 2 project name and location Step 3 you can leave the import and style options as they are However you may wish to adjust the Resize images to max option if you want pictures to be resized differently than the default
171. n This will help you install Amazon s Kindlegen helper application to your machine so that Jutoh can create Kindle books To install Kindlegen automatically click on Download and Install Or download the Kindlegen archive file from the Amazon site and save it to your hard disk Then click Browse to choose the file you downloaded Specify where you want Kindlegen installed and click on Install Get Kindlegen from Amazon Kindlegen archive C Documents and Settings Julian Smart My DocumentsiDownloa Browse This is the file you downloaded from Amazon Installation folder C appsikindlegen 1 2 This is a folder that the Kindlegen files will be copied to It should be a new Folder Download and Install Install Kindlegen Installation dialog If Download and Install doesn t work for any reason download the zip file manually click Browse to set the location of the zip file and click Install If you wish to install Kindlegen manually instead perform the following installation steps Download the zip file from www amazon com kindlepublishing and unarchive it into a suitable folder such aS c Kindlegen Then set the path of the kindlegen program in the Helpers page of the Preferences dialog An example path might be c Kindlegen kindlegen exe If Kindlegen isn t working within Jutoh first check that the path in the Helpers dialog refers to a file that exists If that s not the problem perhaps Java isn t
172. n European Guide types Each document in a book can have a guide type which is written to the guide section of the Epub or 131 Mobipocket file and indicates the role of the document You can set the guide type by right clicking on the document in the outline selecting Properties to show the Document Properties dialog and then changing the Guide type selection These are the possible guide types e acknowledgements e bibliography e colophon copyright page e cover e dedication e epigraph e epilogue e foreword e glossary e index e loi list of illustrations e lot list of tables e notes e other back cover e other intro e other ms firstpage the place to start reading Kindle only deprecated in favour of text e other reader start page the place to start reading Books only e preface e start the place to start reading Kindle only deprecated in favour of text e text the first chapter of main body of text it should not be used more than once e title page e toc table of contents When Jutoh generates a section without it being present in the project outline for example the cover page and simple table of contents page it will set the appropriate guide type If you use the keyword STARTPAGE for the guide type it will be replaced by the appropriate type for Mobipocket or Epub as specified by the current value of the configuration option Start page guide type However this has b
173. n indie published novel Another area worth exploring is can you do an event Is there a tie in with a local event that you can devise and pitch to the organisers Would local societies be interested in hearing about your special subject They may become willing readers if you give a good performance This is barely scratching the surface of what you can do Often these things don t cost money but they do cost time and imagination Think laterally and be creative Allow time to do the job properly and don t be discouraged if it takes time Overnight best sellers are black swans exceptional events But there is a lot you can do to help your beloved book along the way Further tips Since ebooks don t always have a page count that will be displayed alongside your book description you might like to include one in your description so that people know they will be getting value for money Use the book word count in the Document Properties dialog and divide by a reasonable word per page figure say 600 149 To avoid separating your book from the description s you write you can store your book description and perhaps a publicity plan in a text document under the Scraps folder in your project This information won t be included in your book You should consider getting an ISBN number for your book this is necessary if you want to get on the premium Smashwords catalogue for example You can buy a block of ISBNs yourse
174. name for the Name field in the image properties dialog the first image with a given name will be exported and subsequent occurrences will use the same image The name will also be used as the root of the image file name Don t use non ASCII characters such as Chinese characters for file names or EpubCheck and or Kindlegen will fail Exporting images to files If you need to extract all images from your book in their original format and size you can use the File Export Images command It will prompt you for a folder that will contain the files If you need to get hold of the files that have been converted to JPEGs and resized as part of the book compilation process then you can unzip the Epub file using an archive tool renaming the extension to zip first if necessary Using media objects to insert images Instead of inserting images directly you can insert media documents and then add media objects that refer to them For more on this see Embedding media Summary We ve seen how to insert pictures and adjust the way they are saved in your compiled ebooks Next we look at further refinements for your books namely getting Jutoh to help create various kinds of index section 100 Chapter 12 Working With Indexes Jutoh can help you with three kinds of index table of contents alphabetical index and endnotes or footnotes at the end of each section For a simple book you don t have to know how to use these and J
175. nd with the project as a whole A document s assets can be edited using Format Asset Editor and the project assets via the Assets page in the Project Properties dialog Most users will not need to edit assets See the Jutoh Plus guide for more details Automatic style An automatic style is a named character or paragraph style that Jutoh imports or generates when ad hoc styling is applied to a span of text or a paragraph An automatic style contains one or more symbols These styles are not usually shown in the style sheet because they are quietly maintained with each document in the project You should minimize your use of automatic styles because it makes maintaining document consistency harder Character style Named character styles are applied to spans of text within a paragraph For example the URL style is defined by default and applies blue and underlining to text You can view and edit character styles using Project Properties Edit and clicking on Styles Then click on Character styles in the drop down box under the list of styles You can apply character styles by right clicking on selected text then choosing Styles Character Styles in the context popup menu You can also use keyboard shortcuts and the Favourites menu see Customising the user interface Compiling The process of creating generating building an ebook from a Jutoh project 151 Configuration A configuration in Jutoh terminology is
176. nes Ctrl Period to be the prefix for secondary shortcuts So for example if you defined the secondary style shortcut Ctrl 1 for Heading 1 you would type Ctrl Period Ctrl 1 to apply that style When you type the prefix shortcut Jutoh shows a little window called the Secondary Shortcut Window Shortcuts Type a secondary shortcut Close The Secondary Shortcut Window Now you can type a secondary shortcut and the window will disappear after the command is executed or you can click on Edit Shortcuts to customise shortcuts This will show the Shortcut Customisation dialog from which you can view existing shortcuts edit individual ones or reset all shortcuts to their default values 165 Shortcuts Shortcuts Commands Styles Character Styles Citation Code Span Alt Ctr 5 HTML Text URL Paragraph Styles Symbols Em Dash Alt Chis Em Dash Ak Ctri Inserts Matches Batch Compile Compiles the multiple confir Check Book F8 Checks the book Compile F7 Compiles the selected configuration Design Cover Shows the cover designer Documert Cleanup Performs style cleanup on the whole book Examine Book F Examines the contents of the compiled book v Only show items with shortcuts Q Match Name and Category v The Shortcut Customisation dialog When you edit shortcuts you ll see all the named paragraph and character styles for the currently selected project excluding au
177. ning folder using your operating system s file explorer Document types The following document types may be created in Jutoh Only create book section documents under the special Content folder but you can create any kind of document elsewhere in your project Book section document A book section document represents a part of an ebook for example a chapter a title page or a table of contents A book section document is similar to a text document allowing styled text editing but has its own property editor dialog with options relating to epub generation and inclusion within an ebook depending on format Text document A text document lets the user type a text note This is useful for storing information that shouldn t be in the book itself such as planning notes for your book or a list of corrections to be applied or maybe to keep track of the sites to which the book has been submitted Typically you ll add these under the Scraps folder 34 Folder document The folder document allows you to group your documents as you wish For example you might have a Web Links folder and a My Photos folder Note that while folder documents are particularly suited to containing further documents in fact any document may contain children Don t create folder documents under your book Content folder this may only contain book section documents Image document Use these to store images that won t appear in the book perhaps for resea
178. ntent will appear on the rare occasions that Jutoh generated styling is inadequate Remember that if you check Use custom CSS any changes that you make to the style attributes using the style dialog will have no effect in the generated ebook because Jutoh is no longer in control of the CSS for this style CSS customisation is described in detail later in this chapter Applying named styles There are various methods for applying named paragraph styles to text in your document Select a paragraph and choose a style from the drop down style control in the editor toolbar select a paragraph click Format Styles choose a style and click OK right click or control click on Mac choose Styles in the context menu and click on a style name use custom keyboard shortcuts and Favourites as explained in Appendix B Configuring Jutoh You can also apply named character styles to ranges of text Select some text click Format Styles choose Character Styles choose a style and click OK right click or control click on Mac choose Styles Character Styles in the context menu and click on a style name use custom keyboard shortcuts and Favourites as explained in Appendix B Configuring Jutoh 120 Note that when a character style is applied via the context menu it is merged with the attributes in the selected text forming a new automatic style see below unless there are no attributes in the selected text in which case the origin
179. ntifier is not defined in OPS T frie producing a spunous messing The Jutoh Book Viewer This is a separate window but still part of the Jutoh application that displays the hierarchy of files inside your Epub with a viewer for the XHTML and other files The errors and tips are displayed at the bottom and by clicking on each error you can see the context of the problem and the relevant tip Incidentally you don t have to have errors in your book to examine your Epub file At any time so long as the Epub file exists you can use the Book Examine menu command F6 to browse the Epub file You can also use the File Examine Epub command to examine an arbitrary Epub file that s on your disk even if it wasn t created by Jutoh Now you can t actually edit the XML and XHTML source directly You need to deduce the source of the error such as a missing bookmark and correct it in the Jutoh project before running another check The reason for this is that some information is lost when generating the Epub and it wouldn t be possible for Jutoh to precisely reconstruct that information from the generated and hand edited XML and XHTML But you should be able to get used to tracking down problems by examining the Epub files for the small number of occasions that errors make it into the Epub and weren t identified by earlier Jutoh error messages that lead you directly to the context If you see errors from both Jutoh and EpubCheck loo
180. ntrol A widow is the last line of a paragraph appearing alone at the top of a page This option specifies the minimum number of lines of a paragraph that appear at the top of a page Use Default to use the ebook defaults None to switch off widow behaviour or a number for the minimum number of lines e Orphan control An orphan is the first line of a paragraph that appears on its own at the bottom of a page This option specifies the minimum number of lines of a paragraph that must appear at the bottom of a page Use Default to use the ebook defaults None to switch off orphan behaviour or a number for the minimum number of lines Namespaces Specifies the XHTML namespaces Text Formatting This category contains options for plain text and ODT OpenDocument Text output Wrap paragraphs check to wrap paragraphs at the maximum number of characters per line for text output only e Add blank lines check to add blank lines between paragraphs for text output only e Characters per line the maximum character per line if wrapping for text output only 77 Left margin the left page margin in mm for ODT output only Right margin the right page margin in mm for ODT output only Top margin the top page margin in mm for ODT output only Bottom margin the bottom page margin in mm for ODT output only Paper size the paper size for ODT output only The default is A4 Custom paper width the custom paper wid
181. o PDF Since Jutoh can handle all major ebook formats it means that you can distribute your books for the Sony Reader Apple iBooks on iPhone iPod Touch iPad Amazon Kindle any Android device Barnes amp Noble Nook and many other devices as well as for any PC or Mac What is Jutoh 11 Jutoh is an editor for creating your ebooks you can create a book from scratch in Jutoh or you can import an existing book As we ve seen Jutoh can generate the major ebook formats Unlike most word processors Jutoh divides ebook content into sections which is more naturally suited to the way ebooks work Jutoh is a bit like a word processor in that it supports content formatting but it is geared towards generating a variety of ebook formats with various tools to help with this task You can add images to your documents and experimentally sound and video where supported by the ebook reader For clarity here are some things that Jutoh is not e Jutoh is not just a converter Although you can import from several different file formats it s an editor so you can write content and apply formatting within Jutoh e Jutoh is not an HTML editor You can pass some raw HTML and CSS through to the finished book if you wish but Jutoh is control of most of the HTML generation and so you can t edit all of the generated HTML from within Jutoh However the publisher s version of Jutoh Jutoh Plus does have an HTML template facility to allow you to take
182. o at least say 400x600 Don t include pricing or a reference to the physical edition on the cover Limit embedded images to 2 million pixels and don t use text in images if at all possible For further information see the file iBookstoreAssetGuide pdf available if you have an iTunes Connect account Barnes amp Noble Nook Barnes amp Noble uses the Epub format for their range of Nook devices and apps you can get your books on their site via Smashwords or directly from their PublIt publication site at pubit barnesandnoble com The Publt site contains formatting and submission guidelines Nook readers are popular in the USA and came to the UK in late 2012 These are some of the guidelines mentioned on the Publt site The page margins should be set at 30 pixels on the top and sides with 20 pixels on the bottom In Jutoh these can be set in your configuration for example HTML left margin Embedded fonts are allowed but discouraged due to the extra size and licensing issues A Title Page is mandatory 142 e The Copyright page should show the ebook ISBN Cover image sizes range between 500x600 to 600x730 When generating for Nook switch off Generate iBooks XML in your Epub configuration or the file may be rejected The Nook doesn t honour the text guide type and so it is not possible to specify the first page when the reader first opens the book Your ebook cover when viewed inside the book
183. o iTunes you can export it to one of several popular image formats via File Export Cover Design using the Cover Design Export dialog 66 Export Cover Design Width 600 pixels Height 800 pixels File ritingTools Jutoh UserGuide CreatingEbooksUsingJutoh jpg Browse Type JPEG v Quality 80 Export Cover Design dialog This will use the cover design indicated by the current configuration You can select a different width and height from the values used in the book and your design will be scaled to this size You can also use Copy To Clipboard to paste the image into another application The cover page versus the cover image If a design is specified the image will always be included in the book However Jutoh can also generate an XHTML page that embeds the image This is controlled by the configuration property Generate cover page It is recommended that you enable this in your Epub configuration unless uploading the Epub to Amazon without first converting to Mobipocket and disable this in your Mobipocket configuration to avoid showing two covers If you check Exclude cover from reading order in your configuration the cover page may not be shown as part of the book for example in iBooks the cover will only appear on the bookshelf If you want the reader to be presented with the cover page clear this option Don t clear this for Mobipocket files however Note that Calibre has an unusual inter
184. o the default font using the HTML em unit The scaling factor to convert a point size in Jutoh to an em size in HTML can be adjusted in the Options panel in Project Properties should you 55 wish to tweak the way text size is calculated Line and paragraph spacing Line spacing is the space between lines within a paragraph paragraph spacing comes in two parts before a paragraph and after a paragraph To edit spacing for a named style go to the Styles tab in Project Properties Edit on the main toolbar Select a style click Edit and then click on Indents amp Spacing Paragraph spacing is specified in tenths of a millimetre which is converted to ems for Epub and HTML see Options in Project Properties for the scaling value Note that Mobipocket doesn t register spacing that s less than 25 tenths of a mm so if spacing isn t what you expected go back and check the values Line spacing is specified in multiples of single line spacing for example 1 2 Don t be tempted to simply leave a blank paragraph to get inter paragraph spacing some reader software may ignore this and it will be very hard to change your project if you decide to use less or no inter paragraph spacing The exception to this is the title page and other cases where you need more than the usual spacing but even here it s best to use a special style for each kind of vertical space so you only need one blank paragraph at a time Indentation First
185. oached with caution The book creation lifecycle These are roughly the steps involved in creating and distributing an ebook 1 Create a project importing an existing file if you have one Edit the book content metadata and cover Choose a configuration approximately equivalent to the format and compile the ebook Check the file for errors for example using using EpubCheck Preview the file manually If there are errors go to step 2 2 3 4 5 If there are errors shown by step 4 go to step 2 6 7 Upload to one or more web sites 8 Publicise 9 Bask in the adulation of your readers Steps 1 to 5 are supported directly by Jutoh As you can see there are elements of both file conversion and editing in Jutoh If you re really lucky you could import a file and find there s nothing to do except generate the ebook Or you can create a project from scratch and do all your editing in Jutoh which is what I m doing for this book More usually you ll import some work you have already done and massage the book in Jutoh until you re happy with it going around the loop between items 2 and 6 You re likely to want to improve the presentation of the book by tweaking the formatting creating a table of contents and so on Because Jutoh runs on Windows Mac and Linux you can use most desktop or notebook machines for your editing and even switch between them since the Jutoh file format is portable and a single Jut
186. oh licence is good for any operating systems you may be using Jutoh can run from a mobile drive you 13 can read more about that in the Appendix and in the user manual A question people often ask is Can Jutoh create an encrypted ebook The short answer is No but in fact this would be a useless feature The sites that you will be uploading your book to requires unencrypted content and it s the ebook vendor site such as Kindle Smashwords or iBooks that will be doing any encrypting Unless you re a big publishing company with a deal with Adobe for example you won t be able to do any official encryption that can be recognised by any ebook readers If you re distributing the book yourself probably the best policy is to make a virtue of the lack of encryption customers tend to hate DRM Digital Rights Management and it restricts their freedom to use the book on different devices So just put a paragraph on the title page asking them politely not to copy the book in an unauthorised way Any piracy that does happen may well boost your sales by increasing the buzz around your book However you can easily stop any person from freely downloading your commercial book from your own site by signing up with a vendor service such as Plimus that serves a link to your book only after payment has been received How to get content into Jutoh You can can create a blank project add book section sections and type away Or you can import exis
187. oid having to manage a lot of tabs You can drag a tab to an edge of the document area to split the tabs and show multiple documents simultaneously Drag the tab back next to another tab to go back to viewing one document at a time You can close a tab using the X button This only closes the view of the document and doesn t delete it If you right click over a tab you will see a menu with tab management commands such as Close Other Tabs This is very useful if you have a large number of tabs open 32 Note that under the special Content folder you should only create Book Section documents Any other sort of document will be ignored including folders Creating and deleting documents If you import an existing document Jutoh will already contain one or more book section documents However you may wish to create further documents or you may wish to create a project from scratch consisting of several chapters When you create a document where it goes depends on what document is currently selected If you have selected a folder it will be added as a child of the folder Otherwise it will be created as a sibling of the selected folder You can use one of the following methods for creating a new document 1 Click items on the Document menu 2 Use a keyboard shortcut such as CtrI AlIt B to create a book section 3 Click on the document button on the toolbar and choose an item from the drop down menu The document button looks like t
188. om kindlegen AmazonKindlePublishingGuidelines pdf It is possible to upload Epub files to Amazon instead of converting to Mobipocket first but you may miss out on Jutoh s Mobipocket optimizations and it s better to preview the Mobipocket file on your machine than to rely on Amazon s conversion before previewing with Look Inside Paragraph spacing in Mobipocket You may be wondering why there is no inter paragraph spacing in your Mobipocket file on KF7 devices even though you specified it in Jutoh When the configuration option Use relative dimensions is checked Mobipocket rounds paragraph spacing before or after to the nearest em unit so for example 1 4em becomes lem and 1 5em becomes 2em In fact you specify spacing in tenths of a mm within Jutoh which are then converted to em by multiplying by 0 02 so 25 tenths of a mm become 0 5em From this you can see that 25 is the minimum value you should use to add spacing in a Mobipocket file since anything less will be rounded to zero It s best to ensure that your Mobipocket configuration is using absolute dimensions mm by clearing the option Use relative dimensions Mobipocket does not honour line spacing although this can be changed by the book end user on some readers KF7 may also omit inter paragraph spacing if there is a left indent Lists in Mobipocket Mobipocket doesn t support list type specification so ordered lists can only have arabic numbering Also pa
189. ommands Sometimes you may wish to execute an external command before or after the compilation of your book These properties allow you to specify such commands Note that if executing a command using an interpreter such as Java or Python you must specify the interpreter command in addition to the script to be executed Here s an example command that runs the Kindlestrip program 81 c python27 python exe c apps kindlestrip1 35 kindlestrip py SFOLDERSA SFILENAMES SEXT S SFOLDERS SFIL ENAMES new o oHXTS Pre compile command a command to execute before compilation You can use the keywords FOLDER FILENAME EXT and APPDIR Pre compile command a command to execute after compilation You can use the keywords FOLDER FILENAME EXT and APPDIR General This category contains just one option at present e Notes a place to write notes about this configuration which will be displayed when you click on the configuration Summary We ve looked at configurations in some depth and you should now know where to look when you wish to change the way Jutoh generates a particular ebook Next we look at various strategies to cope with errors that might occur in your book 82 Chapter 10 Troubleshooting Your Book Once you ve compiled your book you need to check it and fix any formatting or other errors that might be present This chapter explains why you need to do this
190. on t know about Your software will make a difference My book is now live on the Amazon and Smashword sites It reaches Apple in two weeks Your software helped make that happen Will B Jutoh is way ahead of any of the ebook editors and I have tried a number of them even Adobe s InDesign Dan R I just wanted to write and thank you a thousand times over for coming up with Jutoh I can t begin to tell you how much simple it has made my life Create once and send out everywhere in all formats is a Godsend and I have been able to supplement my own titles with those of others through my publishing company I learned a lot about proper formatting for eBooks taking into consideration the various formats from ePub to ODT and even plain text I dreaded the thought of manually going through each one only to have to wade through the inevitable feedback in order to fix everything by trial and error In a single evening I was able to submit to both B amp N and Smashwords with flying colors no less Thank you for putting such a wonderful product together Dallas T Thanks again for all the help Jutoh is by far the best epublishing tool I ve used so far Blaise M Simply put Jutoh is the best conversion tool out there The user interface is very friendly there are many extras built in and the documentation is thorough Jutoh can take a very large book with many images and successfully convert to multiple
191. on t be reflected within the Jutoh editor but will be output to the Epub or Mobipocket book Bookmarks and links You can mark text or a picture with a named bookmark so that a link can point back to it Use Format Insert Bookmark and give the bookmark a unique name consisting only of alphanumeric characters and underscores If you select content first the bookmark will be associated with that content No extra formatting will be shown but the cursor will change as you move over it and you will be able to click on it to show the bookmark dialog If you don t select content first a bookmark symbol will be placed at the cursor like this Note that you don t need a bookmark for a link to point to a whole section only if you need to be able to refer to a specific point within a section To insert a link within the book use Format Insert Link to Page Shift Ctrl1 G You will be shown a document browser select a section document and if you wish a bookmark within that section To edit or remove the link just click on the linked text To insert a URL an external web site address use Format Insert URL Shift Ctrl W and type the address When you create a page link or URL the dialog will give you the option of applying a style to the linked text This style is mainly for editing convenience so you can easily see the links ebook readers will provide their own styling for links In order not to clash with the default link
192. on the Help menu Installing on Windows Jutoh Download the setup file from www jutoh com download htm and run the installation program This will create a program group called Anthemion Jutoh x y or other name if you have chosen a different name This folder can be accessed via the Start menu under Programs The folder contains shortcuts to the program ReadMe and Uninstall program You can uninstall Jutoh either by double clicking the Uninstall Jutoh icon in the Jutoh group or by invoking the Windows Control Panel double clicking on Add Remove Programs and then choosing the Anthemion Jutoh item There is also a PortableApps version which you can download instead of using the setup file The PortableApps installer uses a version of Jutoh that is not tied to the registry and so can be easily run off an external drive Jutoh also has its own way of running from external drives so if you have installed the regular version of Jutoh you can use the Mobile Preferences dialog invoked via View Mobile Preferences to install Jutoh onto an external drive Kindlegen You will need to download and install Amazon s Kindlegen if you wish to create Mobipocket Kindle files In the Jutoh Preferences dialog under Helpers or in the Setup Wizard click on Help Me Install Kindlegen Then as per the instructions for Windows above click on Download and Install to get Jutoh to perform the whole process automatically 155 Kindlegen Installatio
193. ons here and you can find more by exploring the pages of the Preferences dialog Viewer applications A viewer application is simply third party software that can display an ebook file that Jutoh creates Examples include Adobe Digital Editions Kindle for PC and Kindle Previewer If an application knows how to open a file that s passed to it then Jutoh can run the application passing it the ebook file name and the file will be shown in the helper application You can set Jutoh up to know about as many viewer applications per file type such as Epub as you like If you do this Jutoh will show you a menu of available applications when you click on Launch after compiling an ebook You can configure the applications using the Helpers page in the Preferences dialog shown below Jutoh Preferences General Viewer applications Appearance Desktop File types Epub files epub Projects Import Help Spelling Ydewers Defaut Privacy Helpers Media Types Speech Mas MPA Viewers For Epub files Strings Defauk Advanced Command Editor Nome Adobe Digtal Edtions Command C Program Files Adobe Adobe Digital Editions digtsleditions Show this command Configuring commands for Epub Here we selected Epub files epub and clicked on Configure To add a new application click on Add and enter the application name and full command path The Default application is always present and means run the application currently asso
194. ontes nascetur ridiculus mus Nullam vitae justo id mauris lobortis nterdum Paragraph style dialog Indents amp Spacing The alignment buttons determine whether the paragraph will be left justified only right justified justified straight on both sides centred or indeterminate no alignment specified unless inherited from a base style Note that if you specify justified text Jutoh won t show it in the editor but it will usually be respected by the ebook reader software Indentation and paragraph spacing values are specified in tenths of a millimetre which will be converted either to relative em units or to mm when written to HTML Epub or Mobipocket formats see below for details of the conversion You can specify both the left indent and first line left indent and also the indent for the right hand side In Mobipocket format the right indent is ignored and a left indent will be shown using a single standard indent size except for the first line indent which can be customised You can specify the before paragraph and after paragraph spacing For normal text paragraphs you ll probably specify at most an after paragraph value For headings it s likely you ll specify spacing before and after the paragraph If you leave these values empty they will either inherit values from the base style or will effectively be zero Its worth remembering that when the configuration option Use relative dimensions is checked
195. ook Of course you know what your book is about But can you describe the contents briefly and in an understandable and enticing way Look at the blurbs on the back of printed books or the descriptions on Amazon and see how it is done Here s one for a Young Adult novel by Michael Pryor Aubrey Fitzwilliam is the son of a prominent ex prime minister He s also brilliant at magic but he s stuck at military school At least he has his best friend George there to back him up George would follow Aubrey anywhere and with Aubrey s talent for thinking up daring schemes that will get them both in trouble that s no easy thing to do At a royal hunting party the boys discover a golem a magical creature built to perform one task to kill Prince Albert Aubrey and George are hailed as heroes for foiling the murder attempt but who sent the golem and why Aubrey is far too curious to let the authorities handle this one and he and George start investigating Here is one for Phil Rickman s latest novel The Bones of Avalon Tt is 1560 and Elizabeth Tudor has been on the throne for a year Dr John Dee at 32 already acclaimed throughout Europe is her astrologer and consultant in the hidden arts a controversial appointment in these days of superstition and religious strife Now the mild bookish Dee has been sent to Glastonbury to find the missing bones of King Arthur whose legacy was always so important to the Tudor line
196. ot the actual book text size by clicking on the A tool on the toolbar and then selecting Larger or Smaller or you can go to the Appearance panel in the Preferences dialog and change the text size in Font for text documents In this panel you can also change the default text foreground and background colours and the maximum size of the editor window Formatting text If possible text formatting such as font family size colour bold and so on should be defined using named styles see later in the chapter and not on an ad hoc basis However sometimes it s convenient to change the formatting directly You can select a span of text and use toolbar buttons or the Format Font dialog which gives you size colour weight style and other options as shown below Formatting Font Font Times New Roman Times New Roman fi Traditional Arabic Trebuchet MS _ Fort style Fort weight Underlining Dcdow C none vw none w none e Srkethrough MCapitals E Smal Capitals E Superscript E Subscript ABCDEFGabedefg12345 carei The font dialog 48 If there are currently no formatting attributes defined for the span of text you have selected or there are no common attributes for the whole span you will see that all controls have an undefined appearance as in the screenshot This means that the text will inherit whatever attributes are defined in the paragraph If you choose a particular attribute
197. ou can read more about styles in Chapter 13 Working With Style Sheets It s worth repeating an essential point create and use named styles wherever possible and don t use ad hoc formatting When you come to tweak your book formatting you 1l be glad if took this advice and planned ahead rather than having to make potentially thousands of changes in your document Next we ll look at editing the project s metadata the information describing the book 59 Chapter 7 Editing Your Book s Metadata Each project must have a minimal amount of metadata which describes the project to the reading software to display if appropriate It is required for Epub and Mobipocket formats This chapter explains what metadata you should provide and how to do it The metadata panel When you create a project you will be prompted for a small amount of the possible metadata that can be provided You can edit more metadata via the Metadata tab of the Project Properties dialog click on the E Edit toolbar button Project Properties Metadata Cover Styles Indexes Configurations Assets Strings Options Info Creating Great Ebooks Using jutoh Language en Identifier Creating Great Ebooks Using Jutoh Author Julen Smart f ws Date 2012 Contributor s Document Publisher Subject Description Arthesnion Web site http www anthemion co uk Non fiction A guide to cresting ebooks for Kindle iBooks Sony r
198. ource Optional information about a resource from which the book was derived Coverage An optional description of the extent or scope of the book s coverage Format An optional book media type such as a MIME media type Relation An optional identifier of an auxiliary resource or related publication and its relationship to this publication Custom metadata If any elements you require aren t catered for in the metadata panel you can add custom ones by clicking the Edit Custom Metadata button at the bottom of the panel You can add elements and then edit their values and edit multiple element values as with regular metadata Unless you have advanced needs you are unlikely to need this facility Viewing the generated metadata If you want to see the actual metadata that Jutoh generates which may differ slightly from the metadata you specify directly you can generate an Epub file and use F6 or Book Examine and click on the file content opf The metadata is contained between the metadata start and end tags Specifying metadata defaults It can be annoying to type in the same metadata for each project so Jutoh allows you to set the default for the most important metadata values in the Advanced panel of the Preferences dialog under Metadata defaults Summary We ve seen how to describe your book to the ebook reading software and your readers Next we deal with another important aspect for communicating what your book s
199. over some or all of the HTML generation and the ability to insert JavaScript files into the book See www jutoh com jutohplus htm for more details e Jutoh is not a full blown page layout program Don t expect to do multiple columns text boxes or absolute positioning of content Jutoh is optimized for the relatively simple needs of most ebooks which are generally read on small devices with little space for elaborate formatting Having said that some tricks are available if you need to go beyond Jutoh s formatting capabilities Jutoh helps you create a cover page for your book with the simple cover designer which can substitute information from the metadata title author and so on into the design Create a design from scratch or start from one of the templates provided by Jutoh Jutoh has facilities for compiling a table of contents and index and can compile references either at the end of a section or in a separate section You can of course create links between pages and links to external web sites In addition Jutoh contains tools to help collate research that doesn t belong in your finished book for example text and image scraps and has its own desktop where you can put sticky notes shortcuts to applications and documents and even little image slideshows Jutoh works on Windows Mac OS X and Linux one licence is good for any or all platforms which is handy if you have a variety of machines and it can be run
200. ow you know the feature is there and what it s for you have an extra tool in case you need to do global or per configuration customisation of the text within your ebook 127 Chapter 15 Advanced Topics This chapter describes a variety of advanced topics that the newcomer to Jutoh can most likely ignore Embedding fonts Jutoh lets you embed fonts into Epub books You might wish to do this to ensure that non Western characters are rendered correctly especially for viewing in Adobe Digital Editions which fails to render non European languages without embedding or you may just wish to give your ebook a different look However embedded fonts are not supported by all ebook readers and there may be copyright issues so you should only embed fonts if absolutely necessary An example of a Unicode font that you can freely embed in your ebook is DejaVu available from dejavu fonts org wiki Main Page If you wish to create a Greek Epub you can use the free Gentium font available from scripts sil org cms scripts page php site_id nrsi amp id gentium To embed a font follow these three steps 1 Add a font Use the Documents toolbar button or Document Add Embedded Font Document menu command Select a font file when prompted A copy of this font will be added to the project and you can change the font family name and other parameters Change the font family name to match the font name used in your ebook styles if applicable 2
201. page or both For each header or footer there are three templates to account for the fact that the presence of Next and Previous links will change according to whether you are currently viewing the first page the last page or the pages in between The default HTML templates give reasonable navigation between pages using text links you could provide more fancy navigation perhaps using images that you copy to the folder of HTML files after generation by Jutoh In the HTML templates you can use these keywords TOCFILE TOCTITLE PREVIOUSFILE PREVIOUSTITLE NEXTFILE NEXTTITLE FIRSTFILE FIRSTTITLE LASTFILE LASTTITLE THISFILE THISTITLE They will be 80 replaced by the associated HTML file names and section titles Enable HTML header enables navigation controls at the top of each HTML page Enable HTML footer enables navigation controls at the bottom of each HTML page HTML header first page template specifies the HTML to be placed in the header for the first page in the book HTML header middle pages template specifies the HTML to be placed in the header for all but the first and last pages in the book e HTML header last page template specifies the HTML to be placed in the header for the last page in the book e HTML footer first page template specifies the HTML to be placed in the footer for the first page in the book e HTML footer middle pages template specifies the HTML to be pl
202. perties button and checking Use custom CSS Style Sheet Properties Style sheet name Default Style Sheet Description The default style sheet Y Use custom CSS body widows 1 orphans 1 Any custom CSS definitions entered above will be written to the CSS file Style Sheet Properties dialog Add any CSS definitions you like in the field and they will be added to the beginning of the CSS file that Jutoh generates as well as the individual style definitions generated by Jutoh or specified explicitly by the user Special style names In some cases Jutoh will use the name of a style to influence the e book output e Heading 1 Heading 2 and so on are output to HTML as h1 h2 etc You can change the value of the Heading style prefix configuration property to a different prefix or clear it to prevent Jutoh generating HTML heading styles Since the ebook reader will apply its default 122 heading styling to paragraphs marked as headings you may find precise control of heading appearance easier to achieve 1f you switch this off in your configuration e The HTML paragraph style outputs the content of the paragraph directly to the HTML file without processing e The HTML Text character style outputs the spanned text directly to the HTML file without processing The word Preformatted in a style indicates that HTML should use the pre tag Importing and exporting style sheets Wh
203. plash screen _ Open the last project Projects Import Help Customisation Spelling de Privacy 7 Show tooltips 2 Show an icon in the taskbar Helpers V Auto add files to favourites 4 Show Desktop in a tab Medis Types Speech 2 Show log window automatically Y Check Epub after compiling MP3 gt y Strings LC Clean up intermediate files Verbosty Verbose Show a tip Advanced Customise Toobars Customise Shortcuts Folders Documents C Documents and Sethings Julan Smarti My Documents Jt Browse Language Display language English U K The General Preferences pages Here you can switch off the opening splash screen and or the startup tips and elect whether to automatically open the last project when starting Jutoh There are further controls for showing tooltips enabling the Jutoh Desktop and whether to add projects to the Favourites window automatically The Verbosity control lets you choose how much text gets written to the Log window and Show log window automatically specifies whether to show the Log window as soon as you start compiling a project handy if you want to hide the Log window when you re editing An option you may well want to enable is Check Epub after compiling so you can guarantee you ve always checked your Epubs with EpubCheck without having to remember to press Check You can specify the default document folder and finally you can choose the user interface display l
204. plicity is a virtue for ebook covers Using an existing design If you have an existing image you wish to use you can specify this in the New Project Wizard by selecting Use existing file in the Cover page and browsing for an image file 64 Or after you have created the project start editing the cover within Project Properties and click Create From Image File You can then choose a file to use Using the cover designer In the Cover tab in Project Properties click on Edit Cover Design This will show cover designer dialog shown below A design comprises a list of rectangular objects which are drawn from the top one first to the bottom one last and so later objects will partially obscure earlier objects The first object is always called Background and defines the overall size and the background colour or texture Cover Design Lena Sie amp Position Background Text by Felix Carswell X position 0 Z Centre Y poston i Percentage With t Percentage Absolute jemplates Save Reset Update auto update Y Show outlines ox Como eo The Cover Designer dialog Typically a design might have four other objects one for making a label area against the background and three more for placing the title author name and publisher name Add a new object with Add Text Add Image or Add Box They all add an object but set up the initial values in different ways for convenience You can Ren
205. ply to the whole paragraph Formatting Style i Font indents amp Spacing Bullets Tabs Eont Arial Black Anal Narrow Arial Rounded MT Bold Arial Unicode MS Font style Font weight Underiiring C coou Eg colour none none none N a E Strkethrough E Capitals 5 Small Capitals E Superscript E Subscript ABCDEFGabodefg12345 Paragraph style dialog Font page 115 In the example above no font attributes are actually set but the the style will inherit any attributes from the parent style A paragraph style or at least its parent needs to have the size set 12 means normal text size and also the font name which should usually be kept to something simple such as Times New Roman Arial or Helvetica or Courier New The next page is Indents amp Spacing which deals with indentation line and paragraph spacing and also text alignment whether a page break will be inserted in front of the paragraph and the outline level an optional indication of heading depth you can ignore this formatting Style Font Indents amp Spacing Bullets Tabs Alignment Indentation tenths of a men Spacing tenths of a mm Oteft Left 60 Before a paragraph Right Left first ine 60 After a paragraph 25 sified O Centred Right Line spacing none O Indeterminate Qutine level none v C Page Break Duis pharetra consequat dui Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient m
206. port to ebooks By default Jutoh will convert non JPEG images to the more space efficient JPEG format You can switch this off via the Convert images to JPEG configuration setting You can also choose the compression ratio when converting using the Image quality configuration property the higher the value the better the quality 80 is usually a good value You can also control the maximum image width and height using the Maximum image width and Maximum image height properties If one or both values are specified Jutoh will resize each image on export if one or both of its dimensions exceed the specified maximum In this way you can easily create multiple books with images optimized for different screen sizes An additional option Maximum image optimization width applies an optimization for images whose width is the same or smaller by simply doubling the size before rescaling back down This improves image quality at the expense of longer compile times so you might like to have a configuration with this set to 1 for preview compiles if you have a lot of images The above options determine the maximum image size at the time the image is written to the ebook However often you will not know in advance what size is best for the device that is being used Kindle viewers will automatically scale images to fit but for Epubs you might like to check Limit images to viewer size this generates CSS that limits the image size to th
207. ppropriate type is being edited it will also disappear temporarily if you are using the built in help window to reduce clutter The style that s highlighted in the list is either the one where your cursor is currently positioned or the style you have selected in the list with the mouse or keyboard You can single click on the styles without worrying about changing your project accidentally this lets you browse the styles and read descriptions of them in the pane under the list To apply a style double click on the style name A menu appears when you click on More or right click over the style list or press the context menu button on your keyboard if there is one This menu contains commands for editing the current style clearing formatting in the current paragraph showing and hiding the style description pane managing your styles showing the Project Properties dialog on the Styles tab and creating new styles 54 The Clear Formatting menu command works like Reset Text Formatting in the Format menu if you have selected some text character styling within the selection will be removed It ll also reset character styling surrounding the cursor if you haven t selected anything However if there is no selection and no character styling under the cursor it will remove ad hoc local formatting from the paragraph So for example Body Text Centre will become just Body Text If you select multiple paragraphs Jutoh will remo
208. pretation of exclusion from reading order and shows such sections at the end of the book You can specify the Cover page background colour in your configuration to fill in the area around the image with colour Specifying the cover image format Normally the cover image will be output as a JPEG file compressed at 90 but if your cover contains line art you might prefer to set the configuration property Cover image format to PNG This will result in a larger but higher quality file A cover design can contain a variety of text and graphics that is scaled combined and rendered to a bitmap before the image file is created If you want to provide your own cover image and make sure that no extra processing is done to the image you can set Cover image format to Original Then the image you imported from a file will be the exact image that is used as the cover For this to work there must be only one object in the cover design Using multiple cover designs 67 Typically you will have one cover design per project However Jutoh lets you define any number of cover designs You might wish to experiment with several alternatives or you might use different covers to target different ebook vendors In that case you d have several configurations with a different cover name assigned to the Cover design property in each configuration You can manage your cover designs in the Cover tab of Project Properties they are listed in the drop down
209. propriate text For example typing c will insert the symbol O Replacing quotation marks is a special case and has its own tab 169 Auto Replace Preferences AAA Replace Custom Quotes Specify how quotation marks will be replaced as you type Y Replace single quotation marks Start single quote gt End single quote Y Replace double quotation marks Start double quote E J End double quote The Custom Quotes tab This dialog specifies how single quotation marks and double quotation marks are replaced when you type the standard quotation marks with the keyboard Jutoh recognises whether the mark is at the start or end of the text Click on the buttons to select the symbol that will be used in each case using the symbol selection dialog You can use the Reset buttons to revert the values to their original settings Appearance options You can adjust various settings relating to Jutoh s appearance using the Appearance page in the Preferences dialog 170 Jutoh Preferences General Restrict window size for comfortable viewing Desktop Y Restrict edit windows to at most 800 pixels wide Projects Import Fil remaining space with Colour i Help Speling Restore Orignal Settings Privacy Helpers Medis Types Speech Font For text documents MP3 Strings abcdeABCDE Advanced Fonts Colour _ Custom text editor foreground colour C Custom text editor background colour C Cus
210. pth the two list buttons on the formatting toolbar simply apply two of the standard list styles bulleted and numbered There is always a named paragraph style for any given paragraph but a given span of text may not necessarily have any named character style If more than one named style applies to text their attributes are combined in the order paragraph list and character with each style overriding the previous You can remove the character style from a span of text and choosing Format Text Reset Text Formatting Editing style sheets 113 You edit style sheets in the Project Properties dialog as shown here Project Properties Metadata Cover The default style shest Indexes Configurations Assets Strings Optiors info Document Style sheet Default Style Sheet Duis pharetra consequat dui Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magrus dis partunent montes nascetur ndiculus mus Nullam vitae justo id mauris lobortis interdum Canter Spacing A os Centred Pictare No Caption Centred Picture Centre Code Tirso Line Tode Last Line Style for body text with an indented first Ine one toed Y erste properties J _ eat osete C ox Cancel Help The Styles page in the Project Properties dialog A default style sheet is provided including these paragraph styles Normal Body Text Body Text First Indent Heading 1 Heading 2 Heading 3 Heading 4
211. pub Now when we compile the Smashwords OpenDocument configuration all Only styles will be excluded except for Only Smashwords OpenDocument and Non Smashwords Formats will also be excluded When we compile another configuration such as Epub the Non Smashwords Formats paragraphs will be included by default it doesn t need to be mentioned explicitly Since we are using wildcards it doesn t matter if we apply ad hoc formatting to the paragraphs in question since the wildcards will match the rest of the style name Another way to exclude content from your book depending on configuration is to add a style 124 substitution in the Paragraph style substitutions property If you added Epub Only Comment to this property paragraphs formatted with Epub Only will be omitted from the final ebook since paragraphs with the Comment style are removed Summary In this chapter you have learnt a lot about styles and how to edit and apply them Next we ll look at Jutoh s string table feature which gives you another way of customising your books 125 Chapter 14 Working With String Tables The string table feature gives you extra flexibility in customising your book by defining how keywords will be replaced by text at compile time for all versions of your book or per configuration Introduction Sometimes you may wish to change text that Jutoh generates for example
212. r O Spit at page breaks This style was used 5 times in the document Preview Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Y Remove unused styles from the style sheet Y Imported styles override defauk Jutch styles Discard imported styles and apply Jutoh styles New Project Pe ae pda Step 5 Single File Import page As you can see from the preview window listing the headings in the story Jutoh has correctly guessed the paragraph style to use for splitting the story into sections so all you need to do is press Next Step 6 Cover Design The last page in the wizard lets you choose a cover design 21 New Project Cover Design Choose whether to use an existing fie or create a new design for your e book cover You can edit your design further at any time O Use an existing file Create a new design Templates Choose from existing templates Text will be added by Felix Carswell automatically Edit your design in more detal adding text and images Now press Finish to create the project and press Compile to make the book te peo lem Cece Step 6 Cover Design page You can use the default design or click on Templates to choose another template You can change it later Just press Finish to complete the import Jutoh will now create several sections which are shown on the left in the Projects outline window You can click on each section name and edit the text if you wish Compiling t
213. r chosen from the cover image for filling in the area around the image Generate cover page check to generate an XHTML cover page for the book Not recommended for Mobipocket Expand cover to fit page check to have the cover expand to the page height Include cover in NavMap check to include the cover in the navigation map not recommended Exclude cover from reading order check to hide the cover from the linear reading order linear no in the spine recommended If this option is checked the cover page may not be shown as part of the book for example in iBooks the cover will only appear on the bookshelf If you want the reader to be presented with the cover page first instead of the title page clear this option Don t clear this for Mobipocket files however Note that Calibre has an unusual interpretation of exclusion from reading order and shows such sections at the end of the book Cover image format specifies the image format for the cover design If Original is specified and the cover design has only one image object for example it was created from an existing cover image file then the original file is used without change Cover image width specifies the cover image width in pixels or 1 to use the default cover design width Options This category contains miscellaneous options controlling how Jutoh generates ebook output Generate title page check to generate a title page for the book It s usually
214. r ebooks These documents are purely to help you organize pictures that might or might not be pasted into the book at some point Special considerations for iBooks A problem that many people find with images in Books Epub files is that Books ignores width and height specifications in images and fits images to the page instead This can be bad because you may wish to include high resolution images which will look good on high resolution devices such as retina display iPads while keeping the image to a particular size The workaround for this is to use a parent div that takes the image s size and have the image expand to the size of the parent From Jutoh 1 57 this optimization is applied when Optimize for iBooks is checked in your configuration An image that is on its own in a paragraph without any other content and has its size dimensions specified in its properties is generated using a div that takes the dimensions of the image and dimensions are removed from the image itself So to support a variety of device resolutions it s a good idea to specify high resolution images and specifiy the desired size just one of the dimensions will do Currently this won t work if you have multiple images or other content in a paragraph Inserting SVG pictures The SVG format is used for scalable vector graphics and in some cases can provide better quality than bitmaps Not all ebook software and hardware support SVG but it s an increasingly
215. r use the View Customise Toolbars command and select the Text Section toolbar Now click on the Favourites button you will be asked if you want to edit the favourites If you answer Yes you will be shown the shortcut editor Select a command style or symbol that you want to be on your list of favourites and check the Favourite control Press OK to dismiss all dialogs and click on Favourites Y You will now be shown a menu containing the commands styles and symbols you chose as follows 167 AA A UOO PRESCOTT ei peo aA Em Dash Alt Ctrl Body Text Alt Ctrl 3 Body Text Frst Indent Alt ctri 4 Heading 1 Heading 2 Heading 3 Heading 4 Caption Item Alt Shift 1 Quote Body Quote Attribution Code Span Alt Ctri 5 Edit Favourites Glahal lt hartente are caved te The Favourites menu In this example you can see that we have a symbol shortcut Em Dash several paragraph styles and a character style Code Span Any primary shortcuts are displayed next to the item names Customising toolbars Most of the toolbars in Jutoh can be customised that is tools can be switched on or off and in the case of the main toolbar the text labels can be switched on or off You can use View Customise Toolbars to view the Customise Toolbar dialog Customise Toolbars Show labels Overall text appearance Favourites Check spelling Cut 168 The Customise Toolbars dialog Se
216. ragraph specification will only work for the outer list level due to the paragraph tag not honouring paragraph margins To work around this Jutoh places the vertical margins before and after paragraph spacing on the list item tags for the first level only Specifying the margins for nested items would cause space to be accumulated after closing list item tags Mobipocket lists don t honour custom indentation specification so the defaults will be used Setting the start page By default the Kindle reader will choose a suitable page to associate with the Beginning menu item or button in the reader However you can change this by changing the document guide type to text To do this right click on a document in the project outline to show the Book Section Properties dialog Select text from the Guide type dropdown list You can also use the keyword STARTPAGE in 140 which case Jutoh will substitute the value of the property Start page guide type in the current configuration This allows you to use a start page appropriate to the target device depending on configuration Press OK and compile the book again Indenting table of contents items You may find that the table of contents page isn t indenting items as you expect when viewing the Mobipocket version of your ebook This is because Mobipocket KF7 implements first line indent but not full left indent or hanging indents The solution is to edit the paragraph styles for tab
217. ral projects open simultaneously rather than close the previous project when opening another check View multiple projects If you want Jutoh to create a backup before editing a project check Create backup file when project is opened You can also change auto save frequency and whether to auto paste information into a new document when copying twice in quick succession in another application Windows only Using Edit Document Preferences you can change the auto saving and tab creation behaviour of classes of document For example you can specify that book section documents should reuse a single tab instead of spawning a new tab for each document It s fairly unlikely you ll want to change these settings The Project Maintenance button shows a dialog for cleaning up a project In this dialog you can e Delete troublesome documents without opening them e Delete individual records in the project database in particular orphan documents that are no longer in the project index this occasionally happens when Jutoh is closed unexpectedly e Compact a project that has been fragmented by much document creation and deletion It is recommended that you back up your project before doing project maintenance Miscellaneous options 173 The General page in the Preferences dialog has a variety of useful settings for changing the way Jutoh behaves Jutoh Preferences General When Jutoh starts up Appearance nee Desktop Show a s
218. raph styles in the drop down control above the editor e Character style This kind of style changes the formatting for a span of text within a paragraph You can apply character styles using the context right click menu choosing Styles and then Character Styles e List style This kind of style defines how list items are formatted at each depth the two list buttons on the formatting toolbar simply apply two of the standard list styles bulleted and numbered 52 You can edit these styles and add new ones using the Styles page in the Project Properties dialog or you can use Format Edit Styles Style changes will be applied to any open documents as soon as you close the dialog Whatever the formatting you apply Jutoh must always be able to relate it to a named style So if you use ad hoc styling such as applying centred alignment using the toolbar Jutoh will create a new automatic style or find a suitable existing one for example Normal Centre Alignment These automatic styles are maintained with each book section document and you can t edit or delete them manually I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to use named styles not ad hoc styles or automatic styles wherever possible This will make it far easier to maintain a consistent format for your book since then when you need to change the presentation you may only need to change the named styles and not every relevant paragraph Also it makes it easier Jutoh
219. rary files on your hard disk However the Android Kobo application has an option for importing local content so once you have the file on your Android device for example using file transfer Dropbox web site or email you can then view it using Kobo Diesel eBook Store Diesel uses a variety of formats including Mobipocket and Epub you can get your books on their site via Smashwords At the time of writing there are no known issues with Diesel s Epub implementation that require special consideration Lulu Lulu uses the Epub format and combines the advantages of print on demand with ebook publishing There are a couple of considerations that we are currently aware of e You need to have more than one chapter in the book or Lulu will complain about the table of contents e You should switch off Optimize for iBooks or Generate iBooks XML so that Lulu doesn t 143 complain about unmanifested files in iBooks mode Jutoh adds the file com apple ibooks display options xml in the folder META INF inside the Epub So try clearing this setting in your configuration to remove this file Also check that iTunesMetadata plist hasn t been added by Tunes if so compile the file again The author metadata needs to be output to Epub with opf role set to aut and the date metadata needs to have opf event set to publication or Lulu will compain From Jutoh 1 57 this is done automatically if they are not already s
220. rch purposes You can create an image document from an image on the clipboard with Edit Paste New Scrap CtrI Alt V Or you can create a new image document and then paste the image into it with Ctrl V or Edit Paste You can also resize the image and use a different format from the default format PNG using the image properties Note that Jutoh normally saves images in full color so it is best to use the compressed JPEG format for large images JPEG images are saved at 90 quality but try not to load and save JPEG images repeatedly or the image will degrade Web link document A web link document contains a web address or URL and an optional description These won t form part of the book Shortcut document A shortcut document contains the location of a document or application on your computer Again these won t form part of the book they are for your reference only Font document A font document contains a TTF or OTF font for embedding in an ebook The font data is stored within the project file and copied to the book when compiling Embedding fonts is beyond the scope of this document but you can find details in the Jutoh manual It is recommended that you don t embed fonts and that you only use basic fonts such as Times New Roman which is guaranteed to be supported on all ebook readers Media document A media document contains an audio video or image file for use in a media object Embedding media objects is beyon
221. rd orcle List level 1 Duis pharetra consequat dui Nullam vitae justo id mauris lobortis interdum List level 2 Duis pharetra consequat du Nullam vitae justo id mauris lobortis interdum Y C List Style page List styles work on the principle that lists can potentially be nested with different bullet or numbering styles depending on the level depth of the list When you are editing an actual list in the Jutoh editor pressing the Tab or Shift Tab keys will increase or decrease the level of the current paragraph in the list On the List Style page click on List level to edit a different level up to 10 and then adjust the 117 attributes to be shown for that level The attributes listed on the Spacing sub page will be merged with the attributes on the Indents amp Spacing page Various bullet styles can be defined but it s best to keep it as simple as possible because not all book formats and readers allow complex bullets For bulleted lists it s best to keep with a Standard bullet style and then select from the pre defined bullet types in the Standard bullet name dropdown Even this may be ignored by the ebook reader if it chooses to use its own bullets In the Spacing sub page define indentation appropriate for the current level formatting Style Font indents amp Spacing Ust Style List level 1 Font for Level Bulet style Spacing Alignment Indentation tenths of a mm Spacing tenths of a
222. rding to the entry and key fields This kind of index entry doesn t have to live anywhere in particular but is easy to lose so consider inserting all see and see also entries into the same page Configuration You can edit various aspects of index presentation in the Index Properties page Click on Edit on the toolbar or Book Project Properties or type Alt Enter then click on Indexes then Index and finally on the Options tab 109 Metadata Contents Index Footnotes 4 Endnotes Cover Styles Entries Options Indexes index options Configurations E Section tite Index Level istyle Index Entry 1 Tite style Index Heading v level 25tye Index Entry 2 Group style Index Group Heading vi Level 3style Index Entry 3 Link style URL v Link format Link separator Entry separator _ Only use linked numbers _ Automatically build index Generate Index Now Index options Settings include the title of the section and how items are to be formatted Using the Link format field you can choose whether items will be bracketed You can customise separators between the entry text and the link and between links With the Only use linked numbers option you can determine whether an item with a single link will have clickable entry text off or a more consistent look using a single linked number on You can specify that the index should be recreated every time the book is compiled check Automatically
223. re 17 you can fill them out later and press Next Step 2 Project Location Here you can specify the project name and folder You can leave the Book Formats as they are New Project Project Location Now enter the desired name for your Jutoh project and the project location Your project pame Lena Project folder c temp Lens Y EJ Cluse template Ebook Formats Jutoh wil configure your project for an intial choice of ebook formats creating one configuration per format but you can add more later Please note that Mobipocket creation requires you to download the third party kindiegen command line tool Tf in doubt simply leave the selections as they are Initial Formats Y Epub v Mobipocket Y OpenDocument Y Text v HTS v MP3 v HTML v Smashwords OpenDocument Step 2 Project Location page Enter Lena into Your project name If you wish you can change the location in Project folder You can use an existing Jutoh project as a template if you wish but you can leave the Use template option unchecked for this example Press Next Step 3 Import Options This page is for specifying various details about the import You don t need to change the defaults for this example 18 New Project New Project Step 3 Import Options page Leave these options as they are and press Next Step 4 Import Method This page lets you specify a file to import 19 New Project Import Me
224. re space depending on how the image was saved e JPEG a lossy format good for keeping file size down and best for photographs Not so good for diagrams or images containing text since compression artefacts can be visible e GIF an older format similar to PNG Jutoh cannot flatten this format remove transparency except by converting to JPEG e TIFF a popular general purpose file format that usually produces larger files than JPEG Note that by default Jutoh will convert non JPEG image files to JPEG see Image export to ebooks 96 below for more details In the case of TIFF images you need Jutoh to convert them to JPEG since Epub and Mobipocket do not support TIFF A pasted image will always be inserted as a PNG If you want to insert an image as a particular type such as JPEG you can use Format Insert Picture to insert it as a file instead An image always takes up a character position in the editor if you have one image on its own in a paragraph you can apply paragraph formatting to make it left aligned right aligned or centred If you want text to wrap around it you cannot show this in the editor However you can achieve floating images in your Epub book not Mobipocket unfortunately since it doesn t support wrapping around images by setting properties for the image right click over the image or control click on Mac and select Properties Now you can select float mode left right or none padding for eac
225. roject Properties For example when saving a document as plain text from Microsoft Word Word will show you a further dialog Click on Other encoding and select Unicode UTF 8 Don t check Insert line breaks since you want each paragraph to be one line If you forget to save in the right encoding you may be able to fix it as follows When you get an Jutoh error indicating an encoding problem or the file doesn t show properly in the finished book or the editor open the file in an encoding savvy application such as Programmer s Notepad It should auto detect the encoding which you can check by typing Alt Enter to see the document s properties Now select the whole document and copy it to the clipboard Create a new file change the encoding to UTF 8 in the document s properties and paste the text into it Save this over the original file it s now in the correct encoding If you can t change the encoding of the original file you can specify it in the Import Options section of the New Project Wizard or the Options page of Project Properties if you re importing a file after initial project creation Also if you are importing HTML or Epub and the encoding is missing from one or more HTML files Jutoh will use this setting it will also warn you about the missing encoding so you can go back and specify it For example if the file was created on Windows without specifying UTF 8 you could try the value Windows Wester
226. rom a terminal You can uninstall Jutoh by running uninstalljutohx yz if you used the tarball installation or dpkg r jutoh for the Debian installation or rpm e jutoh for the RPM installation If you need to invoke Jutoh directly without using the launcher script either launch them from the appropriate application directory or set the environment variable JUTOHDIR to the respective application directory On rare occasions Jutoh may crash on startup if there is a conflict with the current KDE or Gnome desktop theme Changing the theme should make the problem go away Kindlegen You will need to download and install Amazon s Kindlegen if you wish to create Mobipocket Kindle files In the Jutoh Preferences dialog under Helpers or in the Setup Wizard click on Help Me Install Kindlegen Then as per the instructions for Windows above click on Download and Install to get Jutoh to perform the whole process automatically To install Kindlegen manually download it from www amazon com kindlepublishing at the time of writing 1t is bundled as a gzipped tar file which you can unarchive to any suitable folder such as Kindlegen For example mkdir Kindlegen 158 cd Kindlegen tar xvfz Downloads kindlegen linux 2 6 i386 vl 2 tar gz Then set the path of the kindlegen program in Jutoh s Preferences dialog under Helpers For example the path might be home fredbloggs Kindlegen kindlegen If Kindlegen isn t working wit
227. s enabled at the same time as Optimize for iBooks Jutoh will generate a file called com apple ibooks display options xml with specified fonts set to true This will tell Books to respect the fonts that are specified in the book otherwise Books will choose standard fonts Please note that if the configuration option Exclude cover from reading order is checked the cover image does not appear in the actual Books reader only in the Books bookshelf Here are some of the recommendations Apple gives for creating Epub files for iBooks 39 66 29 66 29 oe Use guide types such as toc title page preface other back cover and so on use the Book Section Properties dialog available by right clicking on a document in the project outline and choosing Properties or by using the Document Document Properties menu command or Shift Alt Enter The first page displayed will be determined from the guide type in this order of preference text acknowledgements dedication epigraph foreword preface other intro Override this with the other reader start page guide type You can also use the keyword STARTPAGE in which case Jutoh will substitute the value of the property Start page guide type in the current configuration This allows you to use a start page appropriate to the target device depending on configuration For cover art use TIF JPEG or PNG image using RGB colours and at least 600 pixels on the larger axis S
228. s in square brackets You can influence how the citation numbers are styled by changing the Base reference style by default Citation or editing the Citation style definition in the style sheet editor By default the Citation style applies no extra formatting Footnotes In footnotes mode the default your footnotes will not show within Jutoh unless edited but if there are any footnotes in a chapter they will be appended to the chapter when the book is compiled after a 111 horizontal rule divider Footnotes are always added so if you were to import footnotes from an ODT file and then compile it without altering any settings they will show up For Epub books you can change the horizontal rule properties from the Footnotes and Endnotes properties page For example you can set it to be coloured red and occupy 30 of the page width For ODT files Jutoh will insert an image reflecting some of the configured properties Endnotes If you switch to endnotes mode you need to use the Book Update menu command to create the endnotes or create the section from the Footnotes and Endnotes properties page From this page you can choose to always rebuild the endnotes page by checking Automatically build endnotes In the properties page you can choose the endnotes title and styles for the title per chapter heading and whether the numbering will be global continuous numbering or whether it should restart for each c
229. s that have currently been generated for this project regardless of format You can view the folder containing a selected file view the file with the appropriate helper application or for Epubs examine the structure of the generated book Document area 4 The bulk of the window is taken up by the document area where you can view and edit the documents sections in your book At the bottom you ll see a row of tabs one for each document that you re currently editing and also one for the Jutoh Desktop The Desktop contains shortcuts for various Jutoh features and documentation and it s also a place you can add sticky notes as shown below pictures and even picture slideshows Click on the Jutoh logo button at the bottom left for available Desktop commands 27 J Table of Contents From the Horse s Mouth Preface Chapter i Introduction to Eb i Chapter 3 The Atoh User Ir Chapter Working With Prop Chapter 5 Importing Fies J Chacter 6 Editing and Formal Y gt Ede comodo cres taren 6 Creatnetbooks sng utah D Chapter 3 The Mutoh User Interface The Jutoh Desktop At the top of the document area you ll see the title for the currently selected document You can click on it to edit the title of the section as it appears in the outline and in the generated book contents Under the title area the book section editor shows a toolbar which can be customised by right clicking on the
230. s that the Smashwords variant has the Special index formatting and Special footnote formatting properties disabled since Meatgrinder doesn t like the special formatting associated with these options So instead of using special fields Jutoh will generate the index and footnote text in full There are two methods for helping Meatgrinder create a NavMap from the word processor document 1 Create a linked table of contents page which Jutoh will do automatically or you can build your own Don t use Word or OpenOffice s automatic table of contents generation facility since Meatgrinder doesn t like field codes 2 Start each section with the word Chapter Please see the Smashwords Style Guide at www smashwords com Jutoh will help you conform to them but some aspects you will have to take care of yourself such as careful use of text size sparing use of empty space and consistent heading style usage Much of what the Smashwords Style Guide says can be used when working with Jutoh such as advice on use of indentation paragraph spacing images and so on Recently Smashwords has started allowing authors to upload Epub files However this is only used for 144 delivery of the Epub format and you still need to upload Word files for the other formats See also Chapter 10 Troubleshooting Your Book for tips on dealing with Smashwords submission problems Your own web site Of course there s nothing to stop you uploading
231. s using the element editor if you want to add creators other than author If not specified there will be no creator element in the metadata For descriptions of attributes that give more information about the type of author see www loc gov marc relators relaterm html Date Specify the date in the format YY Y Y MM DD or YY Y Y MM or just Y Y YY ISO 8601 standard If not specified the date of generation will be used You can add an optional opf event attribute which 66 can be one of creation publication and modification Contributors You can have zero or more contributors By default Jutoh lists itself as a contributor You can switch this behaviour off in your configurations For descriptions of attributes that give more information about the type of contributor see www loc gov marc relators relaterm html Publisher An optional field with the publisher s name Web site An optional field this doesn t have a direct equivalent in Epub metadata and uses a relation element since the web site is notionally a related publication Subject The subject of the book If this is not specified General Fiction is used There is no standard list of possible subjects though your publisher might have some guidance Description A description of the book Rights An optional statement of the book rights Type 62 The optional book category as defined by a particular publisher S
232. sections for headings if required Via section properties you can tell the ebook reader that a section is a table of contents or other kind of section which you couldn t do if it was buried inside one huge section Finally you ll find it easier and faster to navigate and edit a book divided into sections If Jutoh didn t split up your book when importing you can do it manually one split at a time Place the cursor on the paragraph you wish to be at the start of a new document and use the command Edit Split Document If you change your mind you can t undo this with Edit Undo but you can join this document with the next one using Edit Join Document If the new document was inserted at the wrong place you can drag it into the correct position You can edit the title of a particular section by clicking on the title above the editor or using the Rename command on the project outline s context menu right click to see it This title will be used in the automatic table of contents Basic content editing When you click on a book section in the project outline or create a new book section with Document Add Book Section Document you are presented with the Jutoh editor You can use this just to review the content in your book or you can edit the text graphics and formatting Many of the editing keystrokes will be familiar from other editors though there will be some differences Here are the more important keyboard and mouse oper
233. sing one of three methods 1 By style specify the heading paragraph styles that indicates the start of a section Specify an asterisk to match against multiple styles and separate multiple heading style patterns by the pipe character 2 By pattern specify a pattern to match against heading text For example you might label each chapter with the prefix Chapter Again use an asterisk to indicate multiple characters to match for example Chapter 3 Using page breaks Jutoh will use page breaks to split the document Jutoh will show a preview of some of the section headings it has found based on your current split settings It will make an initial guess If you cannot persuade Jutoh to find suitable split points you can split your book sections manually later Or you might decide it s easier to edit the original ODT file to let Jutoh find split points In this case you can click on Back and then Next again to have Jutoh reread the changed ODT file You can also adjust a few other options such as removing unused styles the default and discarding empty paragraphs also the default But the defaults are usually best 41 New Project Single File Import Choose a style from the original document that divides book sections IF you choose none the book will be imported in one section OS by ayk Heading 1 O Spit by pattern Chapter O Spik at page breaks This style was used 5 times in the document
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235. st be in the form YYYY YYYY MM or PAYS PSitoc next 2 uo bookmark fragmert idertifier is not defined in OPS section 0003 him OA OPS section 0002 htmK 11 auto _bockmark_1 fragment identifier is not defined in OP S section 0003 htm OR OPSftoc nod26 auto_bookmark_1 Fragment identifier is not defined in 0PS section 0003 HtmP OPS section 0002 htreK 11 auto_bookmark_t fragment identifier is not defined in OPS section 0003 HtmP The bookmark was not found ar EpubCheck stopped parsing the file containing the bookmark producing a spurious The Error Window If you click on an error you can see part of a tip underneath the list To see more click on the information button next to the message For example Book Error Details ERROR OPS toc ncx 26 auto_bookmark_1 fragment identifier is not defined in O0PS section0003 htmi The bookmark was not found or EpubCheck stopped parsing the file containing the bookmark producing a spurious missing identifier message For example a duplicate identifier within the same XHTML file can cause EpubCheck to stop finding further bookmarks Check the file containing the bookmark right before the bookmark mentioned in the first of these errors You may be able to fix later errors by fixing earlier ones first Click Close and then Debug to see the error in context The Book Error Details dialog As you can see there is an error from EpubCheck follow
236. substitution tables since we can specify a different table for each configuration Mobipocket Epub and so on we can put a variable called say ISBN into the ISBN value field and substitute a different ISBN value from the different tables depending on the current configuration Let s assume that you are using two configurations Mobipocket and Epub The Mobipocket book is going to the Kindle store and the Epub book is going to the Tunes store 1 Click Edit on the toolbar then the Strings tab Click the button to add a new string table and call it Kindle Click Add and enter ISBN to add a new string whose name is ISBN Click on the value field second column and enter the ISBN for the Kindle store Repeat the above adding a new string table called iBooks and adding the second ISBN value Click OK to dismiss the Project Properties Click Edit on the toolbar again then the Configurations tab Click on the Mobipocket configuration and scroll down to the String Tables group Select Kindle in the Project string table property VOD ODN Dn Bb W N Click on the Epub configuration and scroll down to the String Tables group 10 Select Books in the Project string table property 11 Click on the Metadata tab and enter ISBN into the Identifier field 12 Press OK Now when you select a configuration a different string table will be used and the ISBN variable will be filled in with the val
237. t s best to select the best configuration for the job and press Compile While we re talking about compiling it s worth pointing out that you can use the Update Special Book Sections dialog instead of updating the table of contents index or endnotes individually from their respective dialogs Update Special Book Sections Table of Contents Jutoh is currently managing the table of contents and checking this option will gather information For the Contents page and NavMap Run the Table of Contents wizard or edit project preferences to be sure that the desired entries are being found Alphabetical Index Jutoh will create or recreate an index page if you check this option Jutoh will not create endnotes since this option is currently disabled You can enable it from Project Properties Update Special Book Sections dialog If any of these special sections are out of date since the last compile for example you added headings index entries or footnotes you can show this dialog using Book Update or F9 and click Update to update all checked special sections Note that you can also elect to automatically update these sections when you compile via controls in the Project Properties dialog so you can be sure they are always 71 up to date Configuration categories Let s look at the property categories in some detail Locations This category contains location related properties Usually you don t need to edit these
238. t click over a document We ll go into this in more detail in Chapter 4 Working with Projects Next to the Projects tab are two more tabs Favourites and Explorer The Favourites tool shows a list of favourite projects for quick access you can add to or remove from this list The Explorer tool lets you browse your disks and open projects delete them or add to Favourites Control Panel 3 The Control Panel has a Build tab which shows the current configuration loosely the current format to be generated with buttons for compiling checking and launching the book Typically you will e Select a configuration for a particular format such as Epub e Click Compile to build the ebook 26 e Click Check to check the ebook for errors Epub only e Click Launch to view the ebook in an appropriate application such as Adobe Digital Editions The control panel also shows the cover of the current project which can be clicked to edit the design Next to the configuration list is an edit button which will show the configuration editor giving you the ability to change various things about the way the book is generated We will cover configurations in Chapter 9 Understanding Configurations Control Panel x Build Files Creating Great Ebooks Using Jutoh Dr Julian Smart Configuration Eo JE The Control Panel Next to the Build tab the Files tab shows all the ebook file
239. t format for their Kindle devices Mobipocket is like a cut down version of Epub in fact the Kindlegen application used to compile a Mobipocket book uses all the same files that you see in an Epub book distilling them to a proprietary format However the way a Mobipocket reader interprets the book is different from an Epub reader with limitations on formatting that have to be borne in mind by the author or worked around by the authoring software Amazon s new KF8 format eliminates many of these limitations PDF has always had a strong showing in ebooks on the desktop because it can faithfully render the layout you see in publications such as brochures with a direct translation from a conventional word processor file However it is less satisfactory on mobile devices because PDFs cannot generally be reflowed to take advantage of small screens and requests for different type size So on a small screen you end up having to zoom in and out and pan around the document Clearly this is not a good general solution for reading books unless you have a device with a particularly large screen and even then you will have trouble adjusting the type size without content either disappearing off the screen or leaving blank areas We will not say much more about PDF in this book but suffice it to say that if you need to support PDF Jutoh can help you create these files by generating ODT which you can load into OpenOffice org and from there export t
240. t that would have seemed disrespectful and whatever it was that she o 8 Previous Doaments Home x v Comple Check Lund Bock PF estribos agua E Chepter 2 x E Tie Page E Chapter The Jutoh User interface tog Errors There mas 1 error for Lens epub at 15 01 2013 19 04 06 5 Tip Click on the Edit toolbar button ar Book Project Properties menu command to edit the metadata You can switch thes warning off in Advanced Settings The Jutoh main window Menu bar and toolbar 1 As with most applications Jutoh has a menu bar under the window title containing all the commands you need to make things happen The menus are File Edit Format Tools Document Book View and Help and the groups are fairly self explanatory Run your mouse along the menu bar and explore these commands as you hover over a command a summary will be displayed in the status bar at the bottom of the window Under the menu bar the toolbar contains a selection of these commands for convenience You can change the commands on this toolbar by by right clicking on it and selecting Customise or selecting View Customise Toolbars These are the buttons available by default La New creates a new project showing the New Project Wizard for importing content or creating an empty project 25 a Open opens an existing project Save saves any changes in the current project Edit edits the Project Properties includin
241. t you don t have syntax errors in your books For previewing your Epub and Mobipocket files you can download Adobe Digital Editions and Kindle for PC or Mac They will become the default viewers when you click on Launch in Jutoh If you re going to be creating Mobipocket books another essential tool in your armoury is Kindle Previewer which you can download for Windows and Mac from Amazon s site On Windows you can get Jutoh to download and install Previewer automatically using Jutoh s Setup Wizard available from the View menu Previewer shows your book in an emulator for Kindle devices and also for the Kindle app running on the iPhone and iPad There can be small differences in the display and navigation behaviour compared with Kindle for PC or Mac plus you get to see what your book will look like on a much smaller screen which might influence formatting decisions You can configure Kindle Previewer as a helper application see Appendix B Configuring Jutoh so that when you click on Launch you have a choice of Default Kindle for PC Mac if you have installed it or Kindle Previewer Don t forget to enclose the full path in quotes for example Applications Kindle Previewer app when adding a new viewer You can install Nook and Kobo desktop applications to preview your Epubs though they don t co operate well with Jutoh and you ll have to open books directly in these tools In my view they re pigs to use for local files an
242. ta cover design text and book content per configuration by substituting one string for another This category controls how the configuration uses existing string tables For more information see Chapter 14 Working With String Tables Project string table specifies the project string table to be used in this configuration if any Project strings override global strings Global string table specifies the global string table to be used in this configuration Project strings override global strings Replace strings in content check to replace strings in book content as well as metadata and cover designs HTML Formatting This category contains various options used for HTML based formats 75 HTML left margin sets a global left margin for Epub and HTML formats not Mobipocket Examples 3 10mm 0 2in 20px To remove the margin clear the value HTML right margin sets a global right margin for Epub and HTML formats not Mobipocket Examples 3 10mm 0 2in 20px To remove the margin clear the value HTML top margin sets a global top margin for Epub and HTML formats not Mobipocket Examples 3 10mm 0 2in 20px To remove the margin clear the value HTML bottom margin sets a global bottom margin for Epub and HTML formats not Mobipocket Examples 3 10mm 0 2in 20px To remove the margin clear the value Styles for indent fix specifies the styles whose left indent should be converted to a first line indent to
243. te match zero or more characters If you need to match actual asterisks prefix them with a backslash for example to match you can write You can also choose between the following mutually exclusive options for telling Jutoh more about the matched text The matched line is the chapter heading choose this if your chapters are easily identifiable as in the above example The next line is the chapter heading choose this if the text being matched is simply to denote a division for example and the next line contains the actual heading There is no chapter heading choose this if there is no chapter heading just sections separated by some matchable text Check Remove lines matching pattern if you don t want to keep section separators such as gt Don t check this if you re matching against chapter headings 44 Specify the Import encoding to match the encoding of the text file as used by the tool that created the text file originally Usually UTF 8 is the best format to use If you want to change the styles that Jutoh applies to the imported text for initial paragraph subsequent paragraphs and section headings you can change them in the Import and Style wizard page see Step 3 above If you have a number of text files one per chapter you can select the folder instead of a single file and you will be presented with the File Conversion Options page N
244. th for ODT output only Specify mm the default cm or in If custom width and height are both specified the values will override the Paper size selection Custom paper height the custom paper height for ODT output only Specify mm the default cm or in If custom width and height are both specified the values will override the Paper size selection Mirror margins Check to mirror page margins for example when creating a gutter for print on demand For ODT output only Dots per inch the assumed number of dots per inch for images used if no absolute dimensions are specified For ODT output only The default is 96 Images and Media This category contains options allowing you to control various aspects of image picture output For more about images see Chapter 11 Working With Pictures e Maximum image width the maximum image width to use in your book Specify 1 for no scaling Note that this physically scales the image before it is written to the ebook rather than simply setting the max width CSS property In contrast Limit images to viewer size sets the max width and max height properties so scaling is done dynamically Maximum image height the maximum image height to use in your book Specify 1 for no scaling As with Maximum image width this physically scales the image Maximum image width units units for the maximum image width and height pixels or percentage Maximum image optimization width maximum image
245. the heading Table of Contents if generating a table of contents You may also wish to define strings that can be used as keywords in cover designs or change the way metadata is presented This is where string tables come in You can define several global string tables independent of any project and you can also define one or more project specific string tables Then in your configuration you can select the global string table and or project string table that should be used and if there is a value corresponding to the string name that value will be used instead of the original name For example in Preferences you could add a global table English then add a string with name Table of Contents with value Contents Then select the English string table for the Global string table property in all your configurations The word Contents will now be used instead of Table of Contents in your generated book Continuing with the example you can also use the keyword Table of Contents in your cover designs and the word Contents will be substituted You can also include keywords in your metadata and if the Replace strings in content configuration property is checked in your book content and they will be expanded before inclusion in your generated ebook Note that string replacement in content only works for strings within the same paragraph formatted in the same character style Here s another example s
246. ther be shown at the end of the section containing the footnote or as a separate endnotes section The way footnotes are presented in the generated ebook is determined by settings within the Footnotes amp Endnotes tab in the Project Preferences dialog under Indexes Note that a footnote is always styled with the designated footnote paragraph style setting overriding paragraph styles you use within the footnote editor For more information on footnotes please see Chapter 12 Working With Indexes Index entries If you mark your book with index entries Jutoh can generate an alphabetical index section Use Format Insert Index Entry Shift Ctrl I and enter the index entry name and if necessary one or two subcategories This symbol will be inserted into the text E The way the the index is presented is determined by settings within the Index tab in the Project Preferences dialog under Indexes For more information about indexes please see Chapter 12 Working With Indexes The basics of formatting using named styles Jutoh maintains a style sheet for each project containing named style definitions that can be used to change formatting in your project Each style definition or just style for short specifies visual attributes such as italics colour alignment and so on Jutoh supports three kinds of named style e Paragraph style This kind of style applies to an individual paragraph and you can see available parag
247. ther directly such as Epub or indirectly such as PDF In this chapter we ll go into more detail about these formats and also describe the major distribution platforms that you may wish to use for selling your ebooks Formats Epub Epub is a free and open standard for reflowable ebooks maintained by the International Digital Publishing Forum IDPF The most popular version of the standard is version 2 as used by all current Epub based reader hardware and software and a specification of version 3 is now available but implementations are not widely used in the real world Version 3 adds more flexibility for absolute positioning addition of sound and video and web like custom features using Javascript Jutoh currently targets Epub version 2 but will target version 3 when it becomes more widely used Ebook readers are likely to support version 2 Epubs in the foreseeable future An Epub file is basically a zip archive containing XHTML content metadata describing the book and a navigation map describing the structure of the book An Epub can be encrypted but this depends on cooperation between a particular platform platform such as iBooks and the corresponding reader software When you submit an ebook generated by Jutoh to an established publishing platform the platform will deal with encryption issues Note that even though Epub is a standard there are always quirks in the way ebook reader software and hardware implement the standar
248. this will show you the currently selected configuration 69 Project Properties Metadata Configurations I 8 Mobipocket x i 8 6 OpenDocument Text HTB a MP3 Em ashuurerlie Anaran mer Configuration for building Epub Fles Document Locations y Options info Book folder FOLDER Book file name IuRohBook Preview file name Formats a Generate Mobipocket O Generate ODT g Generate text O Generate HTB O The popular ebook Format readable an many devices Q The Configurations tab in the Project Properties dialog Configuration properties are presented in a scrolling list with names on the left and editable values on the right Click on a property to see its description displayed under the list You can double click on some properties such as Notes to show a larger text editor To make it easier to find properties you can type all or part of the property name in the search box at the bottom of the window use the left and right arrows to cycle through the matches selecting each matching property in turn You can press the Return key to give the keyboard focus back to the property editor You can add a new configuration by clicking on Add you will be given the option of basing the new configuration on an existing one the values will be copied to the new configuration If an existing configuration is not chosen Jutoh prompts for a format and does some initialisation appropriate to th
249. thod Now choose how you d like to create your project O From a fokder of existing text or HTML files one file per section Folder to scan ciitemp Lena From an existing fie containing all sections Ele id Settings Julian Smart My DocumentsiJutoh Samples Lena oct Use this to import a single file containing all content in text ODT HTML or Epub Format Click Help for details Tf you wish to import a Word document you can use OpenOffice Winter to open the document and save as COT before importing OpenOffice is a free download wow opencffice crg Also you can import from RTF LIT or MOBI if Calibre is installed This is not recommended as the results are not ideal Calibre is available from calbre sbook com O From scratch an intially empty project Step 4 Import Method page Click on option From an existing file and browse for the file Lena odt which you can find under Jutoh Samples in your Documents or My Documents folder Then click Next Step 5 Single File Import This page helps you specify how to split the book into separate sections which you can do by specifying a heading style to identify as the chapter heading style or heading text to match or simply to split at page breaks 20 New Project Single File Import Choose a style from the original document that divides book sections If you choose none the book wil be imported in one section OSEE Heading 1 Splk by pattern Chapte
250. ting content This is best done when you first create the project You can import a folder containing multiple text and HTML documents one file per book section or you can import a single file containing one of these formats plain text DOCX ODT HTML or Epub Note that Jutoh has a different internal representation from any of the formats it can import and so it won t preserve the document formatting 100 This varies accord to format With HTML and Epub import Jutoh will read just a basic level of CSS styling and you may need to do further style and content editing after import depending on the complexity of the original CSS and HTML The preferred import format is DOCX Microsoft Word XML or ODT Open Document Text You can convert a variety of word processing formats such as DOC to DOCX or ODT simply by opening them in OpenOffice org a free download and saving as DOCX or ODT Most style information from the DOCX or ODT document will be preserved If you have an older version of Word that doesn t support DOCX you can download the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word Excel and PowerPoint File Formats which at the time of writing can be downloaded from www microsoft com en us download details aspx id 3 This will add the ability to open and save DOCX files For import of DOCX ODT and HTML files Jutoh will help you split the book into sections by matching against heading styles or content You can also import DO
251. to be dismissed before you can continue working in the main window Dialogs usually have a Help button that will give more detailed information than this guide can cover Screenshots are taken on Windows but the functionality is identical on Linux and Mac even if it looks slightly different 10 Chapter 1 Introduction to Ebooks and Jutoh In this chapter we explore ebook formats and explain how Jutoh fits into the process of getting your book onto virtual shelves We ll take a look at how you get your content into Jutoh and other tools that you can use alongside Jutoh Ebook formats There are three major ebook formats in use today 1 Epub an open standard supported by all non Kindle reader devices 2 Mobipocket a proprietary format specific to the Amazon Kindle but also supported on other devices 3 PDF Portable Document Format an Adobe proprietary format supported by most devices There are other formats including plain text and HTML but the Big Three above are the important ones Epub is the industry standard with wide adoption and is flexible enough for most ebook purposes It s basically a zip archive containing the content in XHTML form plus metadata that describes the content and provides navigation information An Epub reader such as Apple s iBooks should try to format the book in a standard way but inevitably there are differences between implementations Amazon bought and adopted the Mobipocke
252. to manually edit out the old entries later Add at least one entry per section determines whether Jutoh will add an entry for a section even if it didn t match any headings Usually it s best to keep this option checked Use document depth not level can be checked if you want to bypass matching headings and instead generate one link per section and use the hierarchy of your project to determine how the NavMap and table of contents is built You can create or move book section documents under other ones to create a hierarchy if you are not using Use document depth an actual hierarchy isn t necessary since headings give an implicit hierarchy but it s an option that you have TOC level shows the current level we re editing affecting the next two fields There will be as many 105 levels available here as we specified in Max heading level Style for formatting this level is the paragraph style that will be applied to the entry at this level depth of the contents page Finally Matching heading style for this level tells Jutoh that when this style matches within the project we will treat this paragraph as a heading at this level You can match against multiple styles by specifying asterisk for match multiple letters and you can specify multiple patterns by separating them with the pipe character In the example we re allowing Jutoh to look at three headings levels and for the first level we re go
253. to perform tasks such as table of contents creation because it can search for specific paragraph styles Having said that it s probably not worth maintaining and applying separate styles for occasional use of bold or italics When Jutoh creates a new project for you it creates a default style sheet with such styles as Body Text First Indent Heading 1 and TOC Entry 1 Some of these styles such as URL are used by features in Jutoh in the case of URL for applying a link style in various situations for example in a generated table of contents or for a page link So it s best not to delete the standard styles unless you really know what you re doing Since you can have multiple style sheets in a project the style sheet that s being used and edited at any given moment is the one that s specified in the Style sheet property of the currently selected configuration You don t need to concern yourself with that if you will only be using the default style sheet but it s worth bearing in mind in case the Style sheet property is changed accidentally When you re starting a project think about what styles you re likely to need and if necessary create them A bit of foresight here will save you time later compared with simply applying ad hoc styles Using the formatting palette to apply styles The formatting palette provides a convenient way to understand apply and modify the styles in your project The pa
254. toh on various operating systems In Appendix B Configuring Jutoh we describe how to configure various aspects of Jutoh in particular useful third party applications such as Kindlegen and EpubCheck Conventions and terms used in this book The convention Menu Command such as View Preferences indicates a menu and the command on that menu The notation Ctrl S refers to holding down the control key while pressing the S key On Mac you can interpret this as Command S Where we refer to right clicking if you re on a Mac this action will be performed by control clicking since there s only one mouse button The terms compiling building and generating an ebook all refer to the same act of creating an ebook from the information in your project A context menu is the menu you get when right clicking or control clicking on a Mac or pressing the context menu button on a Windows keyboard Document is a general term for each separate item that can appear in a Jutoh project outline whether it s a chapter of your book an embedded font an audio file or any other supported document type Book section refers to a specific kind of document in which you can edit text and graphics it can contain a chapter a title page a table of contents or any individual part of a book This may sometimes be abbreviated to section A dialog is a window that opens in response to some command or condition usually but not always it needs
255. tom panel colour Other Editor margn 10 pixels Keep edit line centred x Co ie The Appearance Preferences page Here you can e set the maximum width of the editing window e set the colour of the editor surrounding background e set the text size for the editing this will not affect the generated ebook text size e set the text editor text and background colours e set the margins around the text editor to give you more breathing space opt to centre the text cursor vertically as you move around the text These settings are global so they apply to all styled text editors in Jutoh in all projects on this machine Desktop options The Jutoh desktop accessed via the Desktop tab near the bottom of the Jutoh window is a handy place to store third party tool shortcuts links to documents and sticky notes You might not use it all but if you do you can tailor various aspects about it from the Desktop page in the Preferences dialog 171 Jutoh Preferences General Appearance Desktop style Projects Import Logo Help Spelling Privacy Helpers Default font abedeABCDE Medis Types Speech mor fo MP3 Strings Icon caption font abcde ABCDE Advanced Initial note size 200 pixelswideby 200 pixels high Minimum desktop size 600 pixels wideby 280 pixels high Options Show tooltips Show cock F Show close button Reset Desktop to Original Settings j Cx J ca
256. tomatic styles If you make changes to the shortcuts for these styles they will be saved with the project In contrast command and symbol shortcuts are global All available commands and styles whether they have associated shortcuts or not appear in the shortcut customisation dialog so you don t need to add these However you need to add any symbol shortcuts that you need with the Add button By default there are no symbol shortcuts defined When you click on Add or Edit the Edit Shortcut dialog is shown as pictured below 166 Edit Shortcut Editing shortcut for Em Dash V Primary shortcut used from the main application window Dht Mian Mak l v C Secondary shortcut used after a prefix command The Shortcut Editor dialog You can specify the primary and or secondary shortcut key combinations and whether the shortcut should appear on the Favourites menu see below If the shortcut is a symbol shortcut for inserting one or more text characters you can also type the text in the Symbol field or select it from a grid of Unicode symbols by clicking Insert Symbol Global shortcuts are saved to the file shortcuts dat in the application settings folder see Jutoh Files for details so another way of resetting command shortcuts is to delete this file before running Jutoh Favourites Another way to save time is to enable the Favourites button on the editor toolbar right click on the toolbar and select Customise o
257. u don t have to unwind the headings similarly you can happily jump from level 3 back to level 1 It probably indicates a problem with your document if you have say a 106 Heading 1 followed by a Heading 3 While this may achieve the look you want you also need to think about a proper structure for your document When you click Next the final page will be shown with an option to automatically build the table of contents whenever generating the Epub or Mobipocket you can leave it unchecked if you can remember to use Update whenever a heading has changed in your project Finished Your table of contents has been generated You can now edit the page if you wish to Note that if you edit your book in a way that may change the table of contents you must run this wizard again to update the table of contents page and NavMap or check the Automatically Buld Table of Contents option below Note that you must ensure that building the table of contents works correctly without editing before enabling this If this option is checked the table of contents and NavMap will be rebuilt on Epub Moibpocket generation as if you had used the wizard Table of Contents Wizard final page Click on Finish to quit the table of contents wizard Note that to make best use of the advanced table of contents facility you need to use consistent heading styles in your document so Jutoh can work out the heading levels in the structure impl
258. u want the colour to be the same as the surrounding text but keep underlining you could use a link color inherit text decoration underline a visited color inherit text decoration underline a hover color inherit text decoration underline a active color inherit text decoration underline 133 To apply CSS to an individual section only right click over a section in the project outline select Properties and then check Extra CSS Paste in the above page and press OK You might notice that when you look at the HTML generated by Jutoh for links the style you applied to the link has been removed This is because if the configuration property option URL attribute removal style has a style value the attributes in the style will be removed from the link before it is written to the HTML file This avoids clashes between the styles specified in the editor and defaults used by the ereader such clashes can make links look untidy especially if the Jutoh and ereader URL colours are slightly different It s better that the ereader shows links in the default syle than in a mixture You can reapply the intended attributes using CSS properties as above Creating fixed layout ebooks Jutoh is primarily a tool for creating reflowable text and picture ebooks However you can create fixed layout ebooks for Books with the restriction that each page is a single image Use the Enable fixed layout configuration option an
259. uation paragraphs by placing the text cursor to the right of a bullet and pressing Backspace The bullet will disappear and the paragraph will be a continuation of the previous item Fonts don t appear as expected Ebook reader software has a limited range of fonts and if you format your book with fonts that happen to be on your system don t expect this to be reflected in your book Use a small range of fonts instead such as Times New Roman Courier New and Arial or Helvetica The ebook reader software will usually substitute something appropriate Although you can embed fonts in your project not all readers support it and you also need to make sure you have the legal right to distribute the font If you change a font in Jutoh and then on loading the font has reverted back to a previous font name it is probably because Jutoh tries to use fonts that are likely to be present on your platform so for example Helvetica may be changed to Arial when opening the project on Windows If you want you can specify a font substitution in your configuration using the Font substitutions property in order to use a particular font name in the finished ebook Garbage characters appear Some readers do not cope well with non Western European languages or need special consideration First try setting the Language metadata field in Project Properties to the language used in the book such as hu for Hungarian If that doesn t work you may need to
260. ue of ISBN in the appropriate string table If you have different editions of your book with the same format for example a Mobipocket file you put on your web site and one that you upload to Kindle you can just add another configuration 134 taking care to set the format property correctly and a string table to go with it So you can have as many configurations as you have sites that you upload to You can use the string table to change other things in your metadata and if you check the Replace strings in content configuration property your book pages For more information on string tables see Chapter 14 Working with String Tables How to specify which sections will be included in the ebook In Chapter 13 Working With Style Sheets we saw how we could change the content of the book using styles Another way of changing content is to include or exclude entire sections There are two ways of doing this specifying in the Book Section Properties dialog whether this section will be included for a given format and specifying inclusion or exclusion by tags Specifying inclusion by format is inflexible because you might have different configurations for the same format To use tags first enter tag names into the Book Section Properties dialog for each section document You can show this using the Document Document Properties command Shift Alt Enter Let s say you only want the first three chapters of you book to be shown in your
261. uite often editing text can disrupt bookmarks so try pressing F9 to update the table of contents and then compile and check again So say you find the error is in XHTML containing the text lt a href section 0003 html auto bookmark 1 gt Chapter 1 lt a gt you can look in Chapter 1 and see why the bookmark auto bookmark 1 doesn t exist In this case regenerating the table of contents will put back this automatically generated bookmark Bookmark names change If you re using advanced table of contents generation Jutoh will generate bookmarks such as auto bookmark 1 If you link to a bookmark and then Jutoh renumbers it in a later table of contents recreation your links may be wrong To avoid this edit the bookmark and rename it to something without the auto prefix Jutoh will now use this bookmark instead of an automatic bookmark next time it regenerates the table of contents e Missing or displaced cover If the cover for your Epub appears as an icon but not within the book consider clearing the configuration option Exclude cover from reading order The option suppresses the cover from appearing within the book content to avoid the cover appearing twice but on some platforms you may wish the cover to appear first instead of the title page Note that Calibre has an unusual interpretation of exclusion from reading order and shows such sections at the end of the book again clearing the Exclude cover from reading order option will prevent t
262. ument menu command Select a media file when prompted A copy of this file will be 129 added to the project it may take a long time if the file is large and you can change the file name to be used and other parameters 2 Insert a media object into your content Use the Insert Media Object command on the Format menu or the context menu and when prompted choose the file name from the list of media objects currently in this project Enter other parameters if you wish such as a title and fallback text to show if the reader does not support the audio or video tags You can preview your file in Kindle Previewer setting the device to for example iPhone or iPad to see the effect of adding media 3 Ensure media objects are switched on in your configuration Under the Images and Media group in your configuration check that Generate media objects is enabled If you switch this off no media files will be included in the book and the media tags will not be included in the XHTML You can also use media documents and objects to insert images The image won t show up in the editor when you insert a media object that references the media document but there is an advantage you could add several media documents with the same name at different resolutions and use configurations to selectively include and omit media documents from the generated ebook You do this by specifying tags in your media document for example hires lores
263. ure that the list items are formatted with a paragraph style with no indent and delete any blank lines between list items Export errors This is not really about Jutoh errors so much as things that can go wrong in a chain of conversion starting with Jutoh output If you generate an ODT and wish to convert to say a Microsoft Word file you can use OpenOffice org or LibreOffice an offshoot of OpenOffice org to convert it However the results can vary in quality depending on which version of the word processor you use and what version of Word you choose to export to If you have a copy of Word you can experiment with what combination works best In particular if there are problems with list bullets you can adjust the bullet font and Unicode symbol used for each kind of bullet from the Options page on Jutoh s Project Properties dialog It s worth checking through a file exported by Jutoh and then converted to a different format before submitting to a distribution site such as Smashwords to fix any errors such as the above The majority of ebooks probably won t encounter them anyway particularly fiction books Expectation errors While not exactly an error this class of problem still causes head scratching and support questions If 93 you come to Jutoh and ebooks in general with expectations of PDF like complex layout you will probably think there s something wrong with the application when it refuses to import this kind of
264. utoh will generate a simple table of contents automatically by default Creating an advanced table of content In an Epub 2 0 book there is always a NavMap navigation map which tells your ebook reader to list the sections in your document Optionally you can create a page listing the contents of the book more like the contents you ll see in a book It s just a regular page with hyperlinks to your book sections In Jutoh well call these NavMap and table of contents respectively The following screenshot of Adobe Digital Editions illustrates the difference between a NavMap on the left and a table of contents on the right BB Adobe Nigtal Idmons Table of Contents Tithe Page Preface Bring on the revolution About the author How this book is structured Cenventions used in this book 1 Introduction Ebooks and Jutoh Ebook formats What is Jutoh What kinds of book can be created with Jutoh The book creation lifecycle How to get content into Jutoh Tools to use with Jutoh Summary Getting Started Creating a new project Adobe Digital Editions showing a NavMap and table of contents Ebook readers will present the NavMap in different ways and some may label it the table of contents The main point is that in an Epub you have to have a NavMap but a separate table of contents page is optional Mobipocket files also have a NavMap but in Kindle hardware it s not actually shown On Kindle for P
265. ve both ad hoc paragraph and character styling You can choose what kind of styles appear in the list using the drop down control next to the More button By default it shows paragraph styles but you can also show character styles list styles or all styles Applying styles using shortcuts and favourites Especially if you have a lot of reformatting work to do you ll appreciate a quick way to apply styles Press Ctrl and then Enter to start editing shortcuts for the styles in your project Scroll down the list of shortcuts until you get to the styles section then edit each relevant style and choose a primary shortcut direct or secondary shortcut prefixed with Ctrl You can also check Favourite to have it appear in the Favourites menu as described above under Special symbols For more about this see Appendix B Configuring Jutoh Using fonts Ebook readers tend to have a limited range of fonts so if possible use as few fonts as possible You re on safe ground if you use Times New Roman Arial and Courier New If you must use different fonts specify them in the named paragraph style and not on an ad hoc basis You cannot use fonts that happen to be on your system and expect them to turn up on someone s ebook reader If you have unusual font requirements the only thing you can do is embed a font and only then for Epub only and for a minority of Epub based readers For this you need to have a copyright free
266. well formed but occasionally errors may be introduced For example you might delete a bookmark needed for a link or you might enter bad metadata such a date in the wrong format Or if you have inserted verbatim XHTML into your book using the special HTML style the error could be badly formed XHTML syntax such as a missing angled bracket This is where Epub checking comes in You can use the Check button in the Control Panel or the Book Check menu command or the F8 key or the Check toolbar button E Y I ipile Check Lat Y rr ane 83 The Check toolbar button Click 1t to run the third party EpubCheck tool written by Adobe in the Java language which is bundled with Jutoh It s recommended that you enable automatic checking after each Epub compile by going to Preferences and in the General Preferences page enable the Check Epub after compiling option This will save you from forgetting to check the file and will also combine the Epub errors together with errors that Jutoh itself spots Assuming Java has been installed checking will either give a clean bill of health or will show errors that have been identified in the Epub These errors are listed in the Error Window at the bottom of Jutoh the same window that Jutoh will use for general errors that it finds during compilation Errors x Thare were 5 errors for Lena epub at 29 09 2011 15 49 17 l OPSicontert opf t2 date value 2010 1 2 i not valid The date mu
267. what errors are likely to crop up and how to fix them What errors can occur If you re lucky your ebook will be perfect the first time you compile it In the real world however it may contain flaws These are the seven categories of error or imperfection that we can identify Syntax errors in particular bad generated XHTML e Structural errors for example bad page links chapters that are too long for ebook readers to cope with and missing sections such as table of contents or cover Formatting errors poor or inconsistent formatting e Content errors spelling and grammar mistakes poor writing factual errors and so on Platform errors formatting or content that is fine on the face of it but falls foul of a particular publishing platform s guidelines e Import export errors problems with importing existing files into Jutoh and exporting to other applications Expectation errors when Jutoh isn t designed to do what you re trying to do The optional third party Epub checker can highlight syntax and structural errors while Jutoh itself checks for some structural errors during book compilation Let s deal with each of these categories in turn Syntax errors Let s focus on the Epub format to begin with When you click on Compile in Jutoh and you have an Epub configuration selected an Epub file is created that contains a variety of XML and XHTML files Jutoh takes great care that the files are
268. when Jutoh is capable of creating perfect Epub files directly You may have to wait until Smashwords fixes the bug though you can try removing any complex formatting lists seem to be a particular problem Sometimes the bug is with EpubCheck itself Unfortunately without an EpubCheck pass you won t be able to submit your book to the Premium Catalog which includes distribution by Sony and Apple File too large There is a Smashwords file limit of 5MB at the time of writing so if your ebook is too large consider reducing the quality of your images or even deleting some If your images are originally in a format other than JPEG or were pasted from the clipboard you can use the Image quality setting in your configuration but if you inserted JPEG images you will need to replace each image iBooks errors When you submit your Epub for iBooks to the iTunes site you may find the book is rejected even though the file doesn t cause problems with other retailers See also Chapter 16 Understanding Ebook Formats and Platforms Images break across one or more pages Make sure your images never exceed the size of the device display by checking the configuration option Limit images to viewer size EpubCheck failure Most errors that cause rejection from iTunes will be identified by running EpubCheck which you can do by clicking on Check within Jutoh Lulu errors e Contains unmanifested files error If you check Optimize for iBoo
269. xcsciscscsicckcccssvstaccasitadeocasbocdessecdddecsuadscoudsvaduccsssnassdvasedsobaadsoessccxscases 96 Inserting and editing CUE Pyasenstednct sseeeseesdasadlacs daneeecsavonev ee apuresaacohesNees dap aiarasSansc eae Mearaues 96 Special considerations for BOS A A A eae essen 98 Inserting SV PICS ia id 98 Importing pictures from DOCX ODT and HTML ecccceccceseceseeeeeeeeeenseceeeeeseeneeenaeeeneaeeeeea 98 Image export to e DOOR ada 99 Exporting imag s to les nissen ne eet aE cxeatadd sceutensgue Wea E A aon cceetuan EES 100 Using media objects to MSI Si A A ad 100 SA td dE 100 Chapter 12 Working With INnd xesiei cceissesesccesscesetesesecastonesnseussoususnsncnsasevestedseseenisseonsesestnadsosecettones 101 Creating an advanced table of COntenit ss did 101 Specifying and stripping link Sty MNO e 108 Creating a table of contents Maall sc 06 sco scnncshciashveapsieasteaawetesternwncsneiu eats ypdvadtewe Sgneteauecenecintenees 108 Creating an alphabetica inde x sasccsnsdscti SE lsat a ae 108 Configuration A O Gea ees lb emo wean tee 109 ol is A A A A RIS CaP 110 Creating footnotes and CAC MOLES A A ta 110 CONTO A A A oa aa 111 O A A O alike ts A 111 Entro ee os eee 0d a ei 112 Jaai 018 RL A E A AE E 112 A A A O 112 Chapter 13 Working With Style Sheets ccccccccscscsacesccnsssccedssacessosonessessstssstsssecasssoncssoesesesvesssteassosessees 113 A e ab dregs aay ain Go ev oa can abe vas CaN a P ag nana E neice N 113 Kinds OT SUVS a A devigedlent
270. xed layout ebooks in Advanced Topics Mentioned the new template facility in the Getting Started and Importing Files chapters Fixed an incorrect reference to the View menu when mentioning Check for Updates in Appendix A Version 1 2 March 15th 2012 e e Documented the Import basic CSS from HTML Epub option in the New Project Wizard Updated the mentions of KF8 Added a description of the new Type and See fields in the index entry dialog Added descriptions for the new configuration options Epub version Orientation lock Optimize style sheet Abbreviate style names Use heading text size Visible URLs Use outline levels Styles suppressing hyphenation HTML top margin HTML bottom margin and Convert horizontal bar to em dash Documented the search box and reordering buttons in the Configurations page Changed erroneous 200Kb section size limit to 300Kb Clarified the effect of width and height settings for various formats Expanded the section on creating PDF documents Corrected typos kindly pointed out by Jim Kerwin Version 1 1 November 8th 2011 Removed text asserting that hanging indent is not supported in Mobipocket since this is fixed in Jutoh 1 39 176 e Fixed text describing how to insert page numbers in OpenOffice org LibreOffice noting that the Format Title Page command is only available in LibreOffice Documented the configuration option Use relative dimensions new in Jutoh 1 39 Version 1 0 October
271. y colour style information Mobile This category contains options for tailoring the way HTML pages are displayed in mobile devices e Enable viewport enables viewport meta tag for mobile browsing HTML and Epub formats only Viewport content the content of the viewport meta tag for mobile browsing HTML and Epub formats only The default value is initial scale 1 0 maximum scale 1 0 user scalable no width device width which keeps the formatting appropriate to the width of the device Fixed Layout This category contains options relating to fixed layout ebooks Currently fixed layout books are supported on iBooks only specify the page image width and height and use one image per section Switch off automatic table of contents and title page generation since no sections should contain reflowable text e Enable fixed layout enables fixed layout This currently affects Epubs on Books only e Orientation lock Specifies the orientation lock to avoid the book being rotated automatically when the device is rotated Supported by iBooks and Kindle Fire e Page width The page width for fixed layout content Page height The page height for fixed layout content Navigation This category contains options for tailoring the way navigation is supported in HTML pages for the HTML format only HTML templates specified here will be inserted into the HTML pages Navigation controls can be placed at either the start or end of the
272. yout ebook A fixed layout ebook has a set number of pages and each page has a layout that cannot be altered by adjusting font size or other variables in contrast with a reflowable ebook A fixed layout book will be scaled to fit the display and there may be flexibility about whether double page spreads or single pages are displayed depending on device orientation This style suits certain kinds of book such as children s picture books photography books and comics The main variants of fixed layout file format are Epub 3 Kindle KF8 and iBooks A future version of Jutoh will support the creation of fixed layout books Metadata The description of the book such as title author publication date and so on Metadata is edited in the first tab of the Project Properties dialog Mobipocket file This is the native file format for Amazon s Kindle books and uses the MOBI or PRC file extension Mobipocket files are created either using Mobipocket Creator or in Jutoh s case using Amazon s kindlegen application which takes a subset of the Epub format as input The Mobipocket file format is not as capable as Epub but Kindle is the single most popular ebook platform by some margin ODT file Short for OpenDocument Text file this is the native format of OpenOffice org which is a free download and can be used as a converter between Jutoh and other popular word processor file formats Recent versions of Microsoft Word can also open O

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