New Sophie Users

Sophie 1.0.3 (build 31) is finally out - go to download to download it. There are an enormous number of bug fixes in this and some new functionality as well: we recommend it. There's also updated documentation.

Sophie is software for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment.

Sophie’s goal is to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of people and institutions and in so doing to redefine the notion of a book or “academic paper” to include both rich media and mechanisms for reader feedback and conversation in dynamic margins.

Version 1.0 is available for download now. This version runs on Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems

Sophie documentation for version 1.0 is available for download as a PDF (2.3 Mb). This isn't the final version – we'll have it in Sophie very soon – though it should make working with Sophie easier. Please point out mistakes or things that are unclear!

You might also take a look at our tutorials page, which includes tutorials that run in Sophie as well as videos showing how to do basic things with Sophie.

This page contains tutorials on how to make books in Sophie. You might want to download the documentation as well.

Tutorials

We've just uploaded a new tutorial about how to create and use page templates in Sophie. You can use page templates to easily create complicated books – the tutorial explains what you need to know.

We've added a tutorial on using timelines to the tutorials page. It explains the basics of using timelines in Sophie books – enjoy!

We've been having some server trouble, so you might not have noticed that we released version 1.0.1, which cleared up a couple of minor bugs in 1.0. Unfortunately, 1.0.1 introduced a new bug of it's own; that's been cleared up, and now 1.0.2 is available for download.

At this writing, there's still something wrong with downloading the Windows version; we hope to have that cleared up very soon.