Install Sigil EPUB ebook editor on Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 16.04. Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor (think Word or LibreOffice but specific for EPUB ebooks). It comes with full UTF-16 support, EPUB 2 spec support with limited EPUB 3 support. It also supports multiple views, such as Book View, Code View and Preview View. The User Interface is translated into many languages. It supports import of EPUB and HTML files, images, and style sheets.
Sigil 0.9.8
This Sigil release is a mix of bug fixes and new features for both epub2 and epub3 users. Some of the highlights for this release include:
Bug Fixes
- Make sure when new empty epub3’s are created that the toc does not use a doctype (Issue #250)
- Make GetUniqueFilenameVersion work even on Case-Insensitive filesystems (Issue #247)
- Properly urlencode/decode all hrefs in plugin’s ResultXML in launcher/PluginRunner to prevent parse errors
- Enable Basic Cut Copy Paste Icons/Actions in OPF, NCX, XML, SVG, and other Misc Text Tabs
- Add proper detection for minimum service pack requirements in Windows installer
- Include workaround for bug in KDE Qt5 plugin on Linux that keep plugins from launching from menu
- Prevent splitting Section0001.xhtml (Split at Cursor) needlessly rewrite the file’s manifest id with a uuid
- Fix issue where merging files when non-xhtml tabs were open was causing Python errors or crashes
- Fix segfault in Image Reports when deleting unused image files
- Fix bug in prettyprint_xhtml in sigil_bs4 (put back inadvertently dropped is_void_tag routine)
- Fix gumbo serialize to better handle injected newlines
- Harden bundled Python isolation on Windows and add subset of PyQt5 to bundled modules
- Harden plugin interface code to properly unquote/quote hrefs
- Stop Sigil from nagging about unsupported mimetypes when epubs with Adobe xpgt page-templates are opened
- Fix Book Browser highlighting issue when editable XML files from the “Misc” folder are opened
- Pull upstream bug fixes from google’s gumbo parser for Sigil
- Force formatting buttons in BookView to generate inline-styled spans instead of “strike”, “b”, etc
- Fix bug from deprecated use of jquery $.browser.msie introduced when jQuery was updated
- Fix temp folder specification on Windows systems that delete the system temp folder for every login (Issue #285)
- Fix typos in metadata descriptions to allow better translations
New Features
- New preference setting (Appearance section) which allows user to adjust the size of the main menu icons
- Add manifest properties to Book Browser tooltips and to All Files Reports Widget for epub3
- Make Sigil’s UI and spellchecker language settings available to plugins
- Add support for PyQt5 for plugin gui widgets
- Internal builds now use Qt 5.6.2 with Webkit added back
- Windows structural changes to eliminate file duplication and to accommodate PyQt5 requirements
- Update all build it yourself from source documentation for new requirements
Be aware that Sigil-0.9.8 still enforces the need for epub3 to have and support an NCX so that it generates as backward a compatible epub as possible. This may be relaxed in future releases.
Download Sigil – Linux Users
There are currently no official binary releases available for Linux on the Sigil Release page. Please check with your favorite distro’s software repositories to see if they have Sigil for installation via your OS’s package management system. If not, there are build instructions for compiling Sigil yourself in the source archive’s docs directory: https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/tree/master/docs
Install Sigil – Linux Users