Versie 2.8.0 van Sigil is uitgekomen. Sigil is een opensource e-bookeditor met uitgebreide mogelijkheden die ontwikkeld wordt voor Windows, Linux en macOS. Het programma kan zowel EPUB- als HTML-bestanden importeren, inclusief opmaak en afbeeldingen. Er is volledige ondersteuning aanwezig voor EPUB 2 en EPUB 3. Het kan verder een inhoudsopgave met verscheidene niveaus genereren en de epubsyntax direct bewerken in de code view. De changelog voor deze uitgave kan hieronder worden gevonden.
New FeaturesBug Fixes
- Create a separate Change Reading Order dialog for those who can not use drag and drop
- Create a Drop Zone for users who want to use drag and drop to add files to their epub
- Rewrite ImageTab to allow for basic image adjustments: rotate right, rotate left, crop, resize
- Allow users more control over Prettify using prettyprint.xml created in Sigil prefs.
- Update all CI github actions to the latest versions
- Add cability to de-nest the newly native nested CSS so that it will work with e-readers
- In ImageViewer move image description to the top
- Make ImageView open images fitted to its window automatically
- Recognize more core mediatypes for image/jxl and imaage/avif from epub 3.4 spec
- Recognize json as a mediatype in Sigil in prep for epub 3.4 spec
- Support json syntax highlighting in CodeView to support epub 3.4 spec
- Add new epb3 tool menu items to safely add and remove the nav from the OPF spine
- Make sure assigned clip number is not editable in ClipEditor
- Greatly speed up All Files report generation in epub3s with manifest properties
- Greatly speed up Delete Used Media by caching current cover image
- Greatly speed up adding bulk resources to the OPF to speed up Add Existing ...
- Fix bug in Open With on MacOS not properly parsing arguments
- Fix bug in refreshing plugin toolbars
- Fix bug in GetInfo not using the proper times symbol
- Fix stripping out of css selectors with non properites (empty)
- Use resizeColumnsToContents to set DeleteUnunsedMedia and DeleteUnusedStyles column width
- Prevent user created custom metadata elements from breaking the lxml parser badly
- Fix bug that stripped out custom metadata from epub before a save
- Use more standard shortcuts for for Previous and Next tab
- Stop Sigil tools from implicitly adding back nav to spine if not present
