Jutoh

What is Jutoh?

Jutoh Plus is an enhanced edition that has several extra features:

• Simple scripts to automate Jutoh operations;
• An HTML template system;
• Support for creating application help files (HTB and CHM);
• Support for showing custom messages during compilation.

These features are not required for most authors and are therefore omitted from jutoh's standard user interface. Jutoh is aimed especially at publishers who edit a large number of books.

Scripts enable automation of tasks such as creating a Jutoh project, replacing content, setting metadata properties, configuring, and generating e-books. Scripts are not procedural and instead comprise groups of property/value pairs. The HTML template system allows you to customize sections of e-books by section or throughout the project, with the ability to edit and include extra JavaScript and CSS code.

The HTB/CHM authoring feature allows developers to add help to the wxWidgets app or Windows applications, as well as exporting Epub/Kindle/ODT files from the same project.

The custom build messages feature lets you create libraries of presets that can support problems in your projects, alerting you to issues such as blank paragraphs, suboptimal formatting, clichés, and commonly used words, commonly used double words, and so on. This is a powerful review tool to save time and increase the quality of your books.

What can be used for scripts?

These features are especially useful when you are dealing with many e-books. One scenario is to coordinate received content formatted in DOCX or ODT according to your specifications. You can outsource editing to people who only use a common word processor and don't need to know how Jutoh works. You can use scripts to convert received files into Jutoh projects and various e-book formats by adding standard copyright notices, extra content, and covers; all without many time-consuming manual operations.

Another use is to stamp a book with the customer's name to discourage redistribution or to make it more personal. This can be done on a Web server, if necessary, using a virtual X server, such as Xvfb, since Jutoh still needs to be present in a notional view.

What operations are possible in a script?

This is what you can do in a script:

• Imports from DOCX, ODT, HTML, Epub or text;
• Open an existing Jutoh project for modification;
• Specify how the entry will be divided into sections;
• Gere ebooks;
• Check the Epub after generation;
• Create multiple configurations, including more than one for the same basic format;
• Change section titles;
• Specify a different coverage or coverage by configuration;
• Insert DOCX and ODT fragments into sections, placing the fragment at the beginning or end of a section, or using a keyword to position it;
• Insert images from files;
• Replace text or paragraph styles based on a search for text or paragraph style;
• Merge an external style sheet with the default style sheet;
• Set string table values, for a command configuration, or all settings at once;
• Set image properties.

What can I use in HTML templates?

These are some of the uses for the template system:

• Adding JavaScript code;
• Replacing an entire section with manually written HTML;
• Add pieces of HTML, such as a copyright notice, at the beginning or end of each section;
• Adding custom CSS to change the appearance of a specific section.

Can I edit HTML templates in Jutoh?

Yes, Jutoh has a built-in code editor. HTML templates are organized as 'active' (text fragments), which means that you can divide your code into parts that are then joined together in the main HTML template using special block markers. The code can come from document assets or project assets and can depend on configuration, allowing a lot of flexibility for modular organization and reuse of a single project for segmentation platforms with different features.

There is a new type of document, the source code document, that will embed files in the ebook that you can reference from HTML templates. It can also be configuration-dependent.

Note that you cannot edit the HTML that Jutoh generates, except by replacing it permanently. Typically, the generated HTML is inserted into the template when compiling the ebook. You can choose to remove the tile tags and edit the HTML directly, but it will not be regenerated.

System Requirements

• iPad and iPhone (with iBooks 2)
• Readium add-on for Chrome browser
• SIGIL (Mac e Windows)
• Calibre (Mac and Windows)