Jutoh for Mac

Bug fixes

• On Windows, now finds the application for a file association more reliably, reducing the need to set up a helper, for example for Adobe Digital Editions.
• Jutoh now properly translates between Epub 2 and Epub 3 guide/epub types so either can be used in the document properties.
• When running on Wine, Linux or Mac, Jutoh won't test for the HTML help compiler file existence as the test might erroneously fail. The HTML help compiler can now be invoked from Linux using Wine.
• Fixed a crash when conversions fail in HTML help generation.
• Fixed a crash bug when opening fixed layout projects.
• When writing the cover HTML, now only specifies one of full width or height to allow scaling in Adobe Digital Editions. Full height is specified if the image is portrait, and full width is specified if the image is landscape.
• 'Fatal' error messages in EpubCheck are now detected.
• Fixed removal of advanced attributes when replacing bold and italics with strong and emphasis elements using the phrase tag mapping.
• Fixed a bug in NavMap creation that resulted in a missing link and an EpubCheck error, as a link was assigned to the wrong item.
• Now generates the xml:lang attribute for the Epub 3 OPF file.
• Fixed a bug in the Linux RPM such that the desktop file tried to run a script and not the Jutoh executable.
• The Welcome screen now never has scrollbars, and the desktop scrollbars takes any subwindows into account.
• If a filename contains a full timestamp, Jutoh no longer uses an erroneous filename for post-compile commands and post-compile book uploading due to time differences. Check, Examine and Upload also now use the last compile time for identifying the file.
• On Windows, if no devices could be found for book uploading, and an MTP device is plugged in, Jutoh warns that it cannot currently copy to MTP devices.
• Links for footnotes no longer have an epub:type for Epub 2 files since this fails Epubcheck, even if it works on some platforms.

Accessibility changes

• Added "Novella Accessibility Sample.jutoh" showing various aspects of accessibility.
• The Making your books accessible section of the help and user guide has been rewritten.
• Now 'Include cover in NavMap' is on by default and the recommendation is to enable it, since a cover page with no possibility of navigating to it could violate Epub standards and cause an error in recent versions of Epubcheck.
• A new Accessibility page has been added to the Metadata page. This shows fields for specifying accessibility information such as Accessibility summary, modifying the custom metadata.
• Added accessibility metadata defaults to the Advanced Preferences dialog, which are used when clicking Use Defaults in the Accessibility Metadata page.
• Removed epub:type from body tags as is not compatible with ARIA accessibility (Epubcheck complains if we add a role, and Ace for DAISY complains if we don't).
• Added Accessibility warnings advanced setting. If this is on, Jutoh will warn about issues including missing accessibility metadata, poor contrast ratios for text, missing alternative text for non-decorative images, the need for table footers and headers to be marked up, and a bad or missing heading hierarchy. Also added Table accessibility warnings.
• Added Set image alternative text option to Formatting Cleanup, to save time when marking a lot of images as decorative or setting a description for more than one similar image. In the Inspector, each image's decorative status is shown.
• Added Minimum contrast ratio and Minimum large text contrast ratio advanced settings to allow relaxation of the strict standard minimums.
• Warning about hard-wired colours are now only shown if Accessibility warnings are enabled, in addition to Colour warning.
• Added the most important ARIA attributes to all advanced properties, for better accessibility control.
• Removed the Edit Custom HTML button from the project properties Cover page, and introduced a Properties button in the cover design dialog which is used to edit the custom HTML and also the cover image's alternative text. The Help button for the cover designer dialog now has a dedicated topic instead of going straight to the 'Creating cover designs' topic.
• Added List style to the table of contents wizard and properties, to create a more accessible table of contents.
• In tables, empty header cells are now written as data cells for better accessibility.
• Added Decorative checkbox to images and drawing objects, as a convenience for setting the Role property to presentation.
• Added a Book | Check Accessibility command with a short summary of issues.
• Added Deduce From Project button in the accessibility metadata to show the Accessibility Summary dialog and create basic metadata values.

Other

• Added a configuration option Advanced footnote formatting to specify that footnotes should be placed directly under their citation paragraphs, and also allow customisation of footnote paragraph styles.
• The keyword %DOCUMENTTITLE% is now replaced with the document title when resolving templates during HTML generation. This allows a template to specify a project-wide head section but also use the correct document title.
• Added Reset button to the Formatting Cleanup dialog, and now the last-used options persist between sessions.
• When importing from a template or using File | Import | Import from Project, the metadata and custom metadata can be chosen separately. Also, the user selections will be saved in the project.
• The Visible page numbers options in Project Properties have been moved to the configuration option Page number formatting, and a new character-style setting in this option allows specification of a page number at the point where the print book page number field is, and not in a separate paragraph or box.
• When %SECTIONFILENAME% is used in a configuration's Section file name, the naming convention for sections whose name is not user-specified is now consistent with the default section-%SECTIONNUMBER% setting.
• Added "..." button to Error window for quick access to warning options.
• Now asks for confirmation before closing the New Project dialog to avoid an annoying loss of entered data.
• Reorganised the new project advanced options dialog into three tabs instead of two.
• Added Apply next to split styles in the new project dialog, and "..." buttons to edit multiple styles or patterns.
• The new project dialog now does a better initial guess at splitting choices, in line with the Quick Convert behaviour.
• Import in the new project dialog is made slightly quicker by allowing the File and Folder buttons to automatically check the Import option, and by setting the initial browse location to the specified project folder.