What's new in Legend Maker 2.1
Feb 14, 2017
- New Features:
- Improved formatting of pop-up notes in ePub 3 books.
New in Legend Maker 2.0 (Aug 29, 2016)
- New features:
- You can now generate ePub 3 books instead of ePub 2 books. Great for books featuring pop-up footnotes and embedded audio and/or video. Note that there is one major limitation: Kindle books can only be generated from ePub 2 books. Legend Maker will not let you select both ePub 3 and Kindle book generation at the same time.
- You can now specify the book language as something other than English.
- Endnote return character is now a ↩ to better represent returning to the previous location.
New in Legend Maker 1.6.1 (May 26, 2014)
- More improvements to line break parsing.
New in Legend Maker 1.6 (May 10, 2014)
- New Features:
- If you are interested in being able to set language metadata as part of the book information, please contact us at [email protected]. We have some infrastructure in place and would like to work with you to determine the best approach to take. Thanks!
- You can now specify "fimage:" to indicate that an image should fill an entire page. This is especially useful if you have an image larger than the ebook readers screen: using "fimage:" ensures that the image is scaled to fully fit on the screen. Prior to this the image would bleed outside the page boundaries.
- You can now use "pnh:my own endnotes title" (for "Put Notes Here") to indicate where you want endnotes placed and have it use your own title instead of the default "Endnotes". In all other ways it's the same as using "bookmark:endnotes" (this behaves in a similar fashion to the use of "toc:" instead of "bookmark:contents").
- Added the tag "srh:" (for "Start Reading Here") as a special bookmark that indicates to the ebook reader the page your book should start on the first time it's opened. This is useful if you want to skip introductory material such as ToC, copyright, etc. Note that this will only work with ePub books and ebook readers that support this feature (e.g. iBooks). The current version of the mobi converter provided by Amazon (kindlegen) isn't converting this marker correctly.
- Legend Maker now ensures that your ebook only contains media files actually referenced in your manuscript.
- Legend Maker now warns you if your manuscript contains multiple bookmarks with the same name.
- Legend Maker will show a notification when a book is made and ready for your review.
- Bug Fixes:
- Consecutive bookmarks (e.g. when inserting the ToC) no longer results in a blank page. LM doesn't even require blank lines between them anymore!
- Consecutive bookmarks will no longer result in multiple entries to the same page (in the ToC). All consecutive bookmarks, prior to the last one, are now ignored (not including items such as the ToC and endnotes).
- Ensures that the cover doesn't bleed outside the page boundaries.
- Correctly handles internal linking when a ToC is placed in the book.
- Correctly handles internal linking when there are trailing spaces in the "bookmark:" text.
- Correctly handles mixed case "image:" tags.
- Improved line break parsing.
- Now handles old Mac text formatting of bookinfo files.
- Handles audio and video files with spaces in their names, since the ePub standard doesn't allow them, by removing the spaces for you.
- If there is no end of link tag (}}) LM now quits trying to make a link instead of corrupting the rest of the section with a link that's the length of the paragraph.
- kindlegen detection has been upped to the version (2.9) available at the time of this release.
New in Legend Maker 1.5.5 (Jan 15, 2013)
- New Features:
- Tabbed indentation causes major formatting problems with the latest Adobe ePub engine. Legend Maker now replaces tabs with a fixed number of spaces, to ensure that the book formats correctly everywhere.
- To ensure reliable indenting please use margin adjustments instead of tabbing.
- You can now use "toc:" to force the inclusion of a Table of Contents at that location in your book. The ToC is bookmarked and the text following the colon is used as the title for the ToC. You can still use "bookmark:contents" to force a ToC with the default title of "Table of Contents".
- Require an update to the latest version of kindlegen and warn people about OS X 10.8 whining about unsafe downloads.
- Ensures validation with the new EpubCheck version 3.0.
- Upgraded save panels to use new APIs.
New in Legend Maker 1.5.2 (Jun 24, 2012)
- New Features:
- Plays well with OS X Mountain Lion's enhanced security.
- Much improved handling of endnotes, including support for multiple paragraphs in an endnote!
- Detects, and provides warnings for, media files with names that will be rejected under validation (names that include &, or ?).
- Bug fixes.
New in Legend Maker 1.5.1 (Jan 30, 2012)
- Legend Maker now require kindlegen V2, which includes support for KF8 (Kindle Fire).
- The Help menu now links to the new ePub validator.
- Eliminates ePub errors found by the new ePub validator.
- Improves Nook ePub formatting.
- Bug fixes.
New in Legend Maker 1.5 (Dec 13, 2011)
- Ensures that all ePub books respect reader formatting selections on the latest Nooks.
- Improves Table of Contents formatting to ensure proper text alignment.
- Ensures that kindlegen can be run by all users of Legend Maker.
- Bug fixes.
New in Legend Maker 1.4.3 (Oct 10, 2011)
- Fixes a problem with stripping spaces from image names.
New in Legend Maker 1.4.2 (Oct 5, 2011)
- New Features:
- Automatically strips spaces from image names since Apple will otherwise reject the book.
- Bug fixes.
- Matches App Store functionality:
- Now uses a Save As dialog to let you choose where to save (and what to name the ePub file name).
- After initial load, book information is now stored within your Library->Application Support folder.
New in Legend Maker 1.4.1 (Jul 22, 2011)
- New Features:
- Ensures that audio and video never auto-play.
- Properly handles line breaks.
New in Legend Maker 1.4 (Jul 11, 2011)
- Audio and video will properly auto-play in ebook readers supporting rich media (e.g. iBooks version 1.3).
- Improves endnote formatting to ensure cleaner formatting in Kindle books (you should see little to no difference in ePub books).
- You can now control the inclusion of a Table of Contents by using the text "bookmark:contents" to indicate if and where you want it placed within your book text.
- Detects (and issues a warning for) corrupted RTF files.
- Detects (and issues a warning for) invalid hyperlinks created in Word.
- Detects (and issues a warning for) endnotes that don't end within a paragraph.
- Detects (and issues a warning for) negative indentations (text outside page boundaries). Such indentations will result in a book being rejected for inclusion in the iBookstore.
- KindleGen has been upgraded to version 1.2. Legend Maker will "encourage" you to download the latest version and add it to Legend Maker (to ensure that you're getting the best possible .mobi files).
New in Legend Maker 1.3.5 (Apr 26, 2011)
- Images with their names as hyperlinks now create clickable images.
- Images (including the cover) can now be in JPEG or PNG formats.
- General improvements to image handling.
New in Legend Maker 1.3.4 (Jan 14, 2011)
- Removes an erroneous error message requiring poster art for audio files.
- Kindle table of contents title formatting changed to be more Kindle compliant.
- Allow for the building of Kindle books in the demo version of Legend Maker.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in Legend Maker 1.3.3 (Dec 1, 2010)
- Fix previewing Kindle books to work with the latest version of Kindle for Mac. Please update to the latest version to ensure proper previewing of .mobi books.
- Ensures that there is only one cover page in a Kindle book. This also removes the cover from the Table of Contents (since readers such as iBooks just ignore that entry).
- Ensure correct formatting when the formatting change occurs at an endnote boundary.
- Improves formatting for older documents that have been converted to Word/RTF from another word processor format (such as Word Perfect).
- Properly handle spaces after image file and bookmark names.
- Creates a .mobi file when there's no title for the book.
New in Legend Maker 1.3.2 (Nov 7, 2010)
- Properly respects unbreakable spaces within a manuscript.
- Corrects the User's Guide by returning instructions on how to include audio and video in ePub books.
New in Legend Maker 1.3 (Nov 1, 2010)
- New Features:
- Now requires KindleGen (from Amazon, follow the directions within Legend Maker to download) for generating .mobi Kindle books.
- Adds "Preview Kindle" option, which will open the Kindle book with Kindle for Mac (if it's present, if it isn't then Legend Maker will ask you to download and install it).
- Forces the Kindle to respect paragraphs that are not indented.
- The ePub now includes a "hidden" table of contents file that can be used by Amazon's KindleGen to convert an ePub into a valid Kindle .mobi book.
- Ensures proper ordering of the Cover in the table of contents (so that it always appears as the first entry when using KindleGen).
- The demo version now includes building the Kindle book, since it's now easy to verify the book formatting using Kindle for Mac.
- Support for documents that are right-to-left. This includes proper extraction of bookmarks and providing guidance to iBooks that it should start the book at the "end" of the book instead of the "beginning".
- Verifies that all files (images, audio, video) referenced in a book are present in the book. If not, a message lists the files that are missing.
- Verifies that all internal links have corresponding bookmarks present in the book. If not, a message lists the bookmarks that are missing.
New in Legend Maker 1.2.3 (Sep 6, 2010)
- Improves book formatting to ensure text always centers correctly.
- Handles formatting changes within bookmark text.
New in Legend Maker 1.2.2 (Aug 31, 2010)
- Fixes a problem caused by Word Hyperlinks having special (non-standard) link formatting.
- Detects advanced Word documents that can't be processed by Legend Maker and issues a request to have them converted to RTF format.
- Correctly handles endnotes that don't end.
- Fixes a problem where the license validation window was obscured by an active help window.
- Removes extraneous spaces from the ISBN to ensure a clean file name (for proper archiving, etc).
New in Legend Maker 1.2.1 (Aug 23, 2010)
- Properly preview an ePub when it is named using the ISBN.
- Ensures that Demo created ePubs are valid (arbitrarily cutting the book at 100 lines can cut the book in the middle of a table, for example).
New in Legend Maker 1.2 (Aug 23, 2010)
- You can now include audio and video in ePub books. Create multimedia books for the iPad and iPhone! See "Preparing a Manuscript" (step three) in the Help menu for details.
- Book files are now named using the ISBN (if an ISBN is present), making for easier book management and archiving. This has the added benefit of making the ePub ready for uploading to services such as kobobooks.com and Google.
- Legend Maker retains the current naming conventions when there is no ISBN (using the containing folder's name).
New in Legend Maker 1.1.5 (Jul 28, 2010)
- Allow multiple bookmarks with the same name — useful if you have multiple books within a single manuscript. The table of contents will correctly reference the different sections, but you will only be able to (internally) link to one of the bookmarks (the last one defined in your manuscript).
- Allow for endnotes and links within the same paragraph.
New in Legend Maker 1.1.4 (Jul 25, 2010)
- Allow for colored text while ensuring that reader color changes are respected for standard (black) text.
- Allow for colored borders and backgrounds, within tables, while ensuring that reader color changes are respected for standard (white) backgrounds.
- Bug fixes.
New in Legend Maker 1.1.3 (Jul 16, 2010)
- Properly distinguish between en dash and em dash characters.
- Bug fixes.
New in Legend Maker 1.1.2 (Jun 29, 2010)
New in Legend Maker 1.1.1 (Jun 28, 2010)
- Correctly defines the Table of Contents when:
- including a bookmark as the first line in the manuscript, and
- including endnotes as a bookmarked entry (instead of simply letting them drop in at the end of the book).
- Ensures that paragraph indentations are always included when viewing books in iBooks.
- Full support for switching between left and full justification of text (within a reader) — some books would not properly switch to left justification (in iBooks) when the manuscript text was fully justified.
- Fixes a formatting problem with lists and improved table formatting.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in Legend Maker 1.1 (May 30, 2010)
- New Features:
- You can now include links to bookmarks within your book text, see Links in "Preparing a Manuscript" (click on the help button) for details on how to add links to a manuscript.
- Correctly renders different font sizes on the iPad.
- The dock icon will bounce when Legend Maker finishes a book (if you're doing something else while a book is being generated).
- Properly handles images with extraneous spaces at the beginning of the file name.
- Adds a Help menu item that takes you to the Threepress ePub validator.
New in Legend Maker 1.0.4 (May 10, 2010)
- Fixed a (rare) line feed problem introduced by the previous update.
New in Legend Maker 1.0.3 (May 5, 2010)
New in Legend Maker 1.0.2 (Apr 29, 2010)
New in Legend Maker 1.0.1 (Apr 23, 2010)
- Ensures proper line breaks (blank lines) in Kindle books.
- Fixes a problem with loading multiple (consecutive) manuscripts that don't have a cover image.