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Open Source ePub manager and editor
Calibre and Sigil added to FreeSMUG directory.
Here are two open source applications that allow you manage and edit ePub format.
Calibre is mainly a eBook manager but it can convert PDFs in ePub file and a lot of formats more:
Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.
Calibre
Calibre is mainly a eBook manager but it can convert PDFs in ePub file and a lot of formats more:
Input Formats: CBZ, CBR, CBC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, LRF, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC**, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, TCR, TXT
Output Formats: EPUB, FB2, OEB, LIT, LRF, MOBI, PDB, PML, RB, PDF, TCR, TXT
Calibre can also:
- Syncing to e-book reader devices
- Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form
- Comprehensive e-book viewer
- Content server for online access to your book collection
Sigil
Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.
- Full Unicode support: everything you see in Sigil is in UTF-16
- Full EPUB spec support
- WYSIWYG editing
- Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Split View
- Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each
- Table Of Contents editor
- Multi-level TOC support
- Book View fully supports the display of any XHTML document possible under the OPS spec
- SVG support
- Basic XPGT support
- Advanced automatic conversion of all imported documents to Unicode
- Currently imports TXT, HTML and EPUB files; more will be added with time
- Currently exports EPUB and SGF (Sigil native format); more will be added with time
- Embedded HTML Tidy; all imported documents are thoroughly cleaned; changing views cleans the document so no matter how much you screw up your code, it will fix it (usually)
- An actually usable user interface
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