Options of ePub Maker

Options

General

  • Book Name & Author The most important entries to input, blank not allowed.
    Default book name is the documet name or the folder of web pages.
  • Save  You can indicate the saving location and file name manually or leave them as default.
    After import, the saving path and file name will show on the panel, default path is what already set  in Settings , where you can change the rule there.
    Default ePub file name will be the document name or the folder name of web pages, if you don't consent, you can change it by clicking the button Change.
    After making, the saving path and name will become links, you can click the path to open the target folder, and click the name to invoke a  reader to open the ePub. (You can install a ePub Reader on your machine and associate *.epub to view the ePub.)
  • Publisher Publisher name will be written inside ePub file, this will only take effect for purchased version.
  • Language Some reader can not recognize the language of the book, such as ADE, you must indicate it explicitly. Press Set as default if you want a language be your general book language, then you needn't change it each time you launch ePub Maker.

Settings

  • Save Path
    Save to the same .... The ePub book will be saved besides the original document or web pages in the same folder.
    Save to default ...  The ePub book will be saved to a common specified common folder, which you can indicate.
    Save Path Textbox  You can input the path you want your books saved to, the default path is Mybook inside where ePub Maker installed.
  • Auto Create Chapter Title  Auto generate chapter title from file name or HTML title. But you can always edit chapter titles in file list.
    from File Name  The file name will be set as the title.
    from HTML Title  HTML Title will be set as chapter title, useful if every HTML file title is already set well.  If the HTML title is blank, the file name will be set as title.
    from First Heading The first heading text will be extracted as chapter title. If there's no heading in the chapter, file name will be used instead. (THis is added from version 1.2)
  • Generate a Title Page  Insert a separate title page with book name and author, if there's no cover and not title in side you can use this function to create a simple text cover page.
  • Auto Split Word HTML* Split Word HTML into pieces on section breaks, this function will make ePub more fast to load and paging, and a TOC(list of chapter titles) can be generated naturally. Strongly recommended.
  • Pass ePubCheck  Assures the result epub can pass the strict check of epubcheck. But ePubcheck doesn't mean the epub standard of Apple or Adobe. About 95% documents can be guaranteed, but document with nested tables or list will fail.

Advanced

  • Absolute Font Size Unchecking this will allow device change the font size, but the appearance may be different from original manuscript.
  • Absolute Table Width Unchecking this will make tables fit the width of terminal screen, checking this will keep the table at fixed width(may cut by terminal)
  • Replace Style Sheet If your web pages contain various style, you can remove them all and impose a unified global style.
  • Remove HTML Element You can remove some kind of HTML element in all your web pages.
  • Optimize Word HTML*  Make Word generated HTML clean and neat, strongly recommended.
    Accurate Mode Keep most original appearance.
    Extreme Mode Only keep document outline, can be used with Replace Style.

* The option will only effect import from Word and need re-import for modification to take effect.

Log

You can check the log to monitor the process.

Save Settings

You can save the settings and advanced settings by clicking the button Save Settings at the bottom of the Settings Panel.

Replace Style will not be saved, it should be indicated for each book project.