Publicate

Publicate!

Publicate is a GTK4 + LibAdwaita application that aims to make it easy to create, edit, and publish Portable Publications (PPUBs).

It is still a work in progress, and also depends on some of my other home grown projects including LibPpub for PPUB handling, GtkCommonMark for displaying MarkDown, and Invercargill for handling lists and sequences.

What works

• Creating a new PPUB.
• Opening an existing PPUB for editing.
• Adding existing files into a PPUB.
• Deleting files from a PPUB.
• Updating PPUB metadata.
• Editing markdown files within a PPUB
• Editing plain text files within a PPUB
• Spellchecking

What is still to come

• Editing PPVM (PPub Video Manifest) files.
• Guided creation of PPVM based PPUBs (PPUB files containing video).
• Button tooltips
• Guided link and image insertion in the markdown editor.
• Save as
• Templated creation of files that don't already exist in a PPUB.
• Easily open multuple instances
• System file association for PPUBs
• Ability to generate PPIX files (PPub IndeX) once LibPpub has the functionality.
• Updating the PPUB date metadata automatically on all saves (currently only updates when metadata is saved).
• Templates for selecting a publication licence and copyright messages.
• Drag and drop files into PPUB