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Originally Posted by BobC
It appears BlueGriffon does have a trial version but you can't edit files with it ! As the firm were behind NVU - a now open source HTML WYSIWIG editor I would expect the basic capabilities to be the same. Komposer is based on NVU and fixes some bugs in the last version of it. You might find it worthwhile grabbing the BlueGriffon trial and comparing what the editor in that would be able to do if it wasn't disabled with Komposer. My guess is that from an editing P.O.V. there will be little difference.
BobC
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Hi all,
I used BlueGriffon to do HTML authoring for a little while: Not a fan. BlueGriffon suffers from the same malady of all WYSIWYG HTML editors: It outputs junky (X)HTML. Oh, its output will work just fine on a browser, but ePub is a heck of a lot more picky.
I just went to
http://bluegriffon.org, to read about the ePub version, which I didn't know about til you told me (thank you). I was about to tell you "don't ask, just try it", til I saw it's 195 Euro for any version that can actually author. I don't mind spending a little money for something that might not work, but not 195 Euro.
About the only info I can give you is that if BlueGriffon ePub edition produces output of the same quality as their Open Source HTML editor, the only thing it will do is lighten your wallet.
By the way, right now I'm creating an Xhtml (multichapter) to ePub converter. It works on well formed Xhtml like you get from authoring in Bluefish (that's FISH). I notice you're interested in ePub3. Maybe in a few months I can make an ePub3 version (I'd need to learn ePub3 first). You can email me at slitt at troubleshooters.com.
Thanks,
SteveT
SteveT