Sigil is a free, open source, multi-platform ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format (both ePub 2 and ePub 3). It also provides features for advanced users, like direct XHTML, CSS and XPGT editing. You can use it to add any of the metadata entries supported by the EPUB specification and create a hierarchical Table of Contents.
Sigil key features:
- Free and open source software under GPLv3
- Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux (note Linux only receives limited support)
- Full UTF-16 support
- EPUB 2 spec support with limited EPUB 3 support
- Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Preview View
- WYSIWYG editing in Book View
- Complete control over directly editing EPUB syntax in Code View
- Table of Contents generator with multi-level heading support
- Metadata editor
- User interface translated into many languages
- Spell checking with default and user configurable dictionaries
- Full Regular Expression (PCRE) support for Find & Replace
- Supports import of EPUB and HTML files, images, and style sheets,
- Documents can be validated for EPUB compliance with the integrated
- All imported files have their formatting corrected, and your editing can be optionally cleaned
- Plugins!
Sigil 1.4.3 fixes:
- critical bug fix for OPF metadata attributes that use named entities
- fix bug in "Add Existing" files when file names would require percent encoding
- fix bug in multiple language spellchecking dialog word lookup when no language attributes used
- update de, nl, sv, ko, ru translations that missed the Sigil 1.4.0 initial release
- critical bug fix for over xml encoding html used inside metadata in the opf
- revert ctrl-f to it long standing Find and Replace behaviour
- fix mismatched override wait cursor usage
- fix crashes when dictionaries are missing on load or during first spellcheck
- update the mapping of language codes to dictionaries without the need to restart
- fix critical bug which caused split to break links that are bare fragments
- fix additional critical bugs which caused split to lose fragments from link targets
- fix double # chars in fragment ids during merge
- fix hang on load with bad encryption.xml font uris
- quiet unneeded debug output when importing an epub
- fix opf cleanup bug when identical xmlns values are used with two different prefixes on the same tag
Download: Sigil 1.4.3 | 70.2 MB (Open Source)
Download: Sigil 1.4.3 (64-bit) | 80.6 MB
Links: Sigil Home Page | Other Operating Systems