New in Vellum 2.2.2:

• Import links in files from Scrivener or Pages
• Apply Monospace and Sans Serif formatting to text using these Word Styles
• Detect chapter titles that use inherited Word styles

Also in this update:

• Fix for a crash when generating after using Revert
• Fix for a crash that could occur when downloading Kindlegen

This release is a free update, available now.

Vellum 2.2.1 includes these improvements:

• Higher-quality ornamental breaks in Nook and Generic EPUB ebooks
• A fix for potentially cut-off glyphs on page edges in print
• New preferences for checking for updates and providing anonymous analytics
• Better baseline-matching when using ornamental breaks and block quotes
• Improvements to spread balancing and final page lengthening in print editions

This release is a free update, available now.

Vellum 2.1.4 includes the following improvements:

• Quotation marks are again included before drop caps in ebooks. We’ve found an alternative solution for avoiding problems with Amazon’s Enhanced Typesetting.
• The size of heading images in ebooks is more consistent, especially for very wide images and for ebooks converted to Enhanced Typesetting
• The Table of Contents now excludes any pages that come before it
• Improved spread balancing for books that include images
• Dictation no longer adjusts insert position after a pause
• Improved responsiveness when a network-mounted disk is no longer available

This release is a free update, available now.

Vellum 2.1.3 adds a new Begin On switch for elements in your print edition:

Use it to control whether an element begins on the right or left side of a page spread.

This update also addresses these issues:

• Leading quotes are now removed from drop caps in ebooks. These quotation marks have long caused issues with Amazon’s Enhanced Typesetting.
• Fixed potential problems numbering pages of a print edition with a Table of Contents.
• Fixed a generation problem for books with similarly-named images.

This release is a free update, available now.

Vellum 2.1.2 addresses these issues:

• Corrected the size of the Kindred flourish in Generic EPUB
• Fixed problems opening some files saved with Vellum 2.0

This release is a free update, available now.

Vellum 2.1.1 addresses issues with previewing and generating books in Vellum 2.1. This release is a free update, available now.

Creating beautiful books just got better: Vellum 2.1 is here!

More Social Profiles

Your About the Author page can now include buttons for Instagram, Pinterest, Goodreads, and more. Want your paperback readers to find you too? In your print edition, you can show the web address next to each icon.

More Title Page Options

You now have complete control over the position of your book’s Title Page. Have a custom image you’d rather use instead? Use the new Full Page Image element to replace Vellum’s Title Page.

Vellum 2.0.7 fixes an issue with the previous release that caused Vellum’s Preview to be blank in early versions of macOS Sierra.

This release is a free update, available now.

Vellum 2.0.6 is a minor update with several improvements, including:

• When using macOS High Sierra, cover images are no longer cut off in Vellum’s Preview
• Fixed cases where italics or font choices could cause unbalanced spreads in print
• Improved inaccurate Paragraph After Break previews in Vellum’s Style Carousel
• Replaced problematic style declarations for inline images in Kindle ebooks
• To avoid warnings from KDP, removed all uses of line-height from Kindle ebooks

Vellum 2.0.6 is a free update, available now.

Creating a book with photographs or illustrations? With Vellum 2.0.5, your print edition can now include images in color. Use Print Settings to control their appearance.

This update also includes a fix for potential problems with drop caps and short, quoted paragraphs. Paragraphs like these could render incorrectly on Nook and on Kindle with Amazon’s Enhanced Typesetting applied.

Vellum 2.0.5 is a free update, available now.