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 1.9.1 changelog:
- Allow creation of a Windows 7 Legacy Installer to return Sigil to Windows 7 (for now)
- Completely revamped Find and Replace (yet again) to return most of its earlier behaviour for finding next
- Prevent Find and Replace Count from changing current location
- Extend spellcheck suggestions to properly handle end of sentence vs abbreviations
- Center Image Report File Sizes vertically within their row.
- Go To Link Or Style will now properly skip leading comments on selectors in CSS stylesheets
- ecmascript is considered a core media type for javascript files
- make URLInterceptor robust when the Book pointer is NULL (has been cleared)
Download: Sigil 1.9.1 (64-bit) | Sigil 1.9.1 (32-bit) ~80.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Sigil for Windows 7 | 70.5 MB
Links: Sigil Home Page | Other Operating Systems
Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
