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Originally Posted by BrowncoatCat
I'm sorry for ranting on my first post in this forum but:
I have used Sigil to convert three of my novel to eBooks. It was brilliant. Now I find its functionality has been reduced to that of a chocolate teatpot by removing PageEdit into a separate piece of software.
People in the real world who want to visually lay out a visual product like a book do not want to learn reams of complex coding. They just want to get the job done.
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Well, then, you might consider trying Adobe's Dreamweaver product for visual HTML layout. Or you could pay $45 for Jutoh. There are certainly alternatives. Or simply use Open Office or pay for Atlantis Word Processor and export ePUBs thereto, all of which allow you to
not look under the hood.
PageEdit wasn't made "into a separate piece of software." BookView--which is what you're referring to--
literally couldn't be continued. For a sh**load of coding reasons.
Couldn't be done.
There's no law saying you have to upgrade to a later version of Sigil. If the changeover from BookView to PageEdit is so problematic for you, simply install and use a much, much older version. Eventually, of course, ePUB standards will move along and you
won't be able to keep using it, but you could always pay for Blue Griffon or one of those to get your "visual" editing.
Hitch