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pittendrigh · 03-19-2018, 05:46 PM

Sigil use error?

I have a ten year old website that teaches DIY builders how to make a stitch and glue drift boat. Actually I got my domain name in 1998. In fact that's 20 years ago.

Websites don't work well for complex do-it-yourself online information. Epub is an order of magnitude more capable.

I tried using sigil. I got all the text imported into various chapter-like sections without trouble but when I manually (one by one) started importing images (photographs diagrams and dimensions) sigil became unusable. The GUI would grind away for minutes at a time before refreshing. Saving and reopening didn't help.

I purchased Jutoh for a small amount of money and it works just fine. I'll run with Jutoh from here on out (on an AMD64 Mint Linux box with lots of memory).

But I do find myself wondering: "Is sigil incapable of handling large text married to many images? Or did I simply do something wrong?"

It's possible my question can't be answered without exposing my epub file, which I don't want to do just yet. But Jutoh does work well. Very well. And sigil does not. Or at least it seems so.

I'm curious to hear what people think.............

03-19-2018, 05:46 PM	#1
pittendrigh Connoisseur Posts: 78 Karma: 1332336 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: montana Device: none	User error? Sigil use error? I have a ten year old website that teaches DIY builders how to make a stitch and glue drift boat. Actually I got my domain name in 1998. In fact that's 20 years ago. Websites don't work well for complex do-it-yourself online information. Epub is an order of magnitude more capable. I tried using sigil. I got all the text imported into various chapter-like sections without trouble but when I manually (one by one) started importing images (photographs diagrams and dimensions) sigil became unusable. The GUI would grind away for minutes at a time before refreshing. Saving and reopening didn't help. I purchased Jutoh for a small amount of money and it works just fine. I'll run with Jutoh from here on out (on an AMD64 Mint Linux box with lots of memory). But I do find myself wondering: "Is sigil incapable of handling large text married to many images? Or did I simply do something wrong?" It's possible my question can't be answered without exposing my epub file, which I don't want to do just yet. But Jutoh does work well. Very well. And sigil does not. Or at least it seems so. I'm curious to hear what people think............. Last edited by pittendrigh; 03-19-2018 at 09:33 PM.