05Jul 2011
BlueGriffon EPUB Edition
12:22 - By BlueGriffon - Announcements - 5 comments
Our wysiwyg HTML/CSS/SVG/MathML editor Bluegriffon will have a sibling!
Our company Disruptive Innovations together with friend Innovimax will release in a near future a new native EPUB wysiwyg editor on the market, BlueGriffon EPUB Edition. It will be commercial, standalone (ie not a webapp), based on the open-source BlueGriffon. Unlike most existing solutions on the market, it will not rely on a private pivot format. While most other tools can only do "Export to EPUB", BlueGriffon EPUB Edition will open EPUBs, create EPUBs, save EPUBs. Do whatever you want with the metadata or the contents. Add, modify or remove documents, images, stylesheets, media files, fonts, everything. It will be simple, powerful, and strictly conformant to W3C and IDPF standards.
As you can judge from the screenshot below, we're moving fast... Stay tuned!
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5 comments
Enfin!
Vous allez supporter des formats autres que l'EPUB aussi (genre Mobipocket)? Je suis à fond pour le standard hein, mais pour le moment il y a quand même une grosse diversité.
Good to see a successor to Sigil
http://code.google.com/p/sigil/
All the best, Dan
Super!
A good news to the emerging Japanese EPUB publishing market. My question is if it supports the latest EPUB3 with Japanese typesetting rules.
Hiroki Kamata, Editor, E-Book 2.0 Forum
Kamata-san,
I hope that the Mozilla/Gecko engine supports vertical text, Ruby, and right to left content flow. This would make BlueGriffon/ePUB a good contender for the Japanese market.
At this point in time, the WebKit nightly builds provide better CSS 3 support for Japanese. For your information, the FUSEe authoring tool is based on the latest WebKit builds, and it supports some level of EPUB3 authoring (you probably know about this software already):
http://development.fusenetwork.co.j...
Anyway, personally I am looking forward to beta-testing BlueGriffon/EPUB !
Cheers, Daniel