What's new in eCub 1.12
Sep 6, 2011
- In batch mode, only shows a message if the compile failed.
- Now supports TrueType files (application/truetype media type in the manifest).
- Added a Czech user interface translation
- Added a Spanish user interface translation
New in eCub 1.11 (Oct 14, 2010)
- Added options for normal paragraph class, first paragraph class, section title class and classes that should precede a first paragraph, to allow the first paragraph to be unindended.
- Setting the document guide type to toc, title-page or cover now lets eCub order these special sections correctly when provided explicitly by the user.
- Fixed warning when adding HTML files in a non-Unicode encoding
New in eCub 1.10 (Oct 14, 2010)
- Improved cover page stretching (use height since it's likely to be the greater value) and made it the default again. Also disabled multiple columns for first page (for Adobe Digital Editions).
- Added "Published by" string, now output in title page.
- Now checks if the paragraph tag is present in the current text line to avoid emitting it twice, in case text contains tags.
New in eCub 1.09 (Oct 14, 2010)
- Corrected a bug that prevented the correct display language from being used.
- Added French display translation, courtesy of Philippe Laporte.
- CSS and image files now edited and viewed with the correct external editor as specified in preferences.
- Corrected a problem whereby spin ids didn't match manifest ids if content files were in subdirectories.
- Added Convert button to switch sections between plain text and HTML.
- Adding a content file now adds it after the selected file.
- The cover page is no longer included in the NavMap by default; added a further option to switch it back on.
- The default is now to not expand the cover image to fit the page since this rarely looks right.
- Added Working with encodings and Troubleshooting sections to the manual.
New in eCub 1.08 (Oct 14, 2010)
- Added "Show in NavMap" option, to allow exclusion of pages from the contents as defined in the NCX file.
- Corrected cover design border behaviour to show only two borders for double border mode, and added triple border mode which shows the background colour between the two main border colours.
- Corrected nesting bug in NavMap.
New in eCub 1.07 (Oct 14, 2010)
- Now all source files, including images, are listed in the Files tab rather than found recursively at book compile time.
- By default, file search in the New Project Wizard is not recursive.
- The New Project Wizard remembers previous folder locations.
- In the New Project Wizard, you can now select or deselect the files to include.
- Images can be viewed in the Files window.
- Set the cover page margin to zero to remove surrounding white space.
- Added "Take title from first line of text files" to Project Options.
- Fixed bug whereby the title was not taken from the text file when added
- from the Files tab.
- Indentation in the contents page is now done with the margin-left style.
- Now looks for image and CSS files in the project folder whether or not the user has chosen to scan for HTML files.
- Added a progress dialog when generating ebooks.
- Corrected lack of conversion to relative filename when importing a chapter.
- The description field now expands to take up any extra vertical space in the "Basics" project properties tab.
- Now adds a project file to the history menu when first created.
New in eCub 1.06 (Oct 14, 2010)
- Added a choice of text-to-speech engines: SAPI, eSpeak, and Cepstral.
- Fixed NCX content generation when working with plain text files.
- Added RTL option in project properties, although few Epub readers will honour this.
- The Calibre reader is one of the few that will.
- Fixed problems dealing with underscores in filenames.
New in eCub 1.05 (Oct 14, 2010)
- Added audio file generation using eSpeak, with an MP3 encoding option using LAME.
- Project folder can no longer be set after creation - it's automatically updated after opening or saving, for portability.
New in eCub 1.04 (Oct 14, 2010)
- Fixed erroneous copying of non-HTML/text files to file with HTML extension.
- Added Strings page to Preferences to allow customisation of a small number of text strings in the generated book.
- Added detailed editing to project meta-data, so multiple elements and attributes can be specified.
- Multiple element instances and their attributes are now preserved when importing an existing ebook.
- Added display language setting, currently restricted to English but further translations can be installed when they become available.
New in eCub 1.03 (Oct 14, 2010)
- Now copies xpgt and svg files if found in the project folder.
- Subfolders are now correctly reproduced, for example image folders.
- Corrected problem with editing and viewing files in Files tab.
- Document now marked as modified when changing "Guide type" and "Show in contents".
- Added Save and Reload buttons to Files tab.
- Added Import Method page to the New Project Wizard to add the option of importing from an existing ebook, using Calibre utilities to import non-epub books.
- Fixed compression so content.opf is always deflated (affected deployment on mobile Stanza).
New in eCub 1.02 (Oct 14, 2010)
- Corrected initial image browser directory from documents directory to Templates.
- Added preflight checker option.
- Added first-line indent and paragraph spacing options to CSS generation, and added styles to the CSS for TOC heading, TOC entries and chapter heading.
- Fixed poor cover image quality problem on Windows.
- Document now marked as modified when changing level and ordering in Files tab.