CREATING GREAT EBOOKS USING JUTOH A complete guide to making ebooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Kobo and more, from new project to publication by Julian Smart Published by Anthemion © Julian Smart 2011 Edition 2.22 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........................................................................................................................xi Preface...................................................................................................................................................xiii Bring on the revolution.....................................................................................................................xiii About the author..........................................................................................................................xiv How this book is structured...............................................................................................................xiv Conventions and terms used in this book..........................................................................................xvi Chapter 1: Introduction to Ebooks and Jutoh......................................................................................1 Ebook formats......................................................................................................................................1 What is Jutoh?......................................................................................................................................2 What kinds of book can be created with Jutoh?...................................................................................3 The book creation lifecycle..................................................................................................................3 How to get content into Jutoh...............................................................................................................4 Tools to use with Jutoh.........................................................................................................................5 Summary..............................................................................................................................................6 Chapter 2: Getting Started......................................................................................................................7 Creating a new project..........................................................................................................................7 Step 1. Metadata.............................................................................................................................7 Step 2. Project Location..................................................................................................................8 Step 3. Layout Choice.....................................................................................................................9 Step 4. Import Options..................................................................................................................10 Step 5. Import Method..................................................................................................................11 Step 6. Single File Import.............................................................................................................12 Step 7. Cover Design....................................................................................................................13 Using Quick Convert..........................................................................................................................14 Compiling the project.........................................................................................................................15 Summary............................................................................................................................................16 Chapter 3: The Jutoh User Interface...................................................................................................17 Menu bar and toolbar (1)....................................................................................................................17 Organizer (2)......................................................................................................................................18 Control Panel (3)................................................................................................................................19 Document area (4)..............................................................................................................................19 Error windows (5)..............................................................................................................................20 Formatting Palette (6).........................................................................................................................21 Getting help........................................................................................................................................22 Project properties dialog.....................................................................................................................25 i Customising the user interface...........................................................................................................25 Summary............................................................................................................................................26 Chapter 4: Working With Projects......................................................................................................27 Overview............................................................................................................................................27 Creating and deleting documents.......................................................................................................28 Moving documents.............................................................................................................................28 Managing project files........................................................................................................................29 Where is my project?..........................................................................................................................29 Document types..................................................................................................................................30 Summary............................................................................................................................................31 Chapter 5. Importing Files....................................................................................................................32 Quick Convert....................................................................................................................................32 What can Jutoh import?......................................................................................................................32 Microsoft Word XML (DOCX) and OpenDocument Text (ODT)..............................................33 Plain text.......................................................................................................................................38 HTML...........................................................................................................................................40 Epub..............................................................................................................................................41 Importing into an existing project......................................................................................................41 Reimporting........................................................................................................................................41 Summary............................................................................................................................................41 Chapter 6: Editing and Formatting Content.......................................................................................42 Why divide a book into sections?.......................................................................................................42 Basic content editing..........................................................................................................................43 Formatting text...................................................................................................................................44 Formatting paragraphs........................................................................................................................45 Special symbols..................................................................................................................................46 Pictures...............................................................................................................................................47