wiki:Download/Beta-3
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Download Sophie 2.0

Sophie 2.0 is released under the ​Educational Community License, Version 2.0.

Sophie 2.0 requires Java 5 or its equivalent.

This is an old release

Release notes

New features and fixes

  • Support for large resources (including embedding)
  • Page Structure Palette improvements
  • Some video performance optimizations
  • Significant text chaining performance optimizations
  • Significant RTF import performance optimizations
  • Improvements on Z-order behaviour
  • Link actions can open external urls
  • Drag And Drop improvements
  • File open / save improvements (including more meaningful file extensions)
  • Minor timeline fixes
  • Media seeking.
  • Online submit from Bug Report Form.
  • Text wrap mode.
  • Tool-tip improvements.
  • Better audio input / output.

Known issues

  • Web sites using Flash don't work in browser frames and may make Sophie unresponsive.
  • Sophie's performance is better on computers when running in Java 6 than it is in Java 5; if your computer has both, make sure that you're using Java 6.
  • There are issues with some movie files.
  • Autochaining creates new pages but doesn't yet respect layouts.
  • Parts of the timeline interface still work incorrectly.
  • There are some issues with layout redrawing which affect performance.
  • Not all resources can be exported in their original formats yet.
  • Possible audio issues with linux32

Downloads

ZIP of Sophie 2 beta 3 for all platforms

Sophie 2 Author

Sophie 2 Reader

Sophie 2 Server

Sophie 2 Platform

(This contains the Author, Reader, and Server components in one directory.)

Installers of Sophie 2 beta 2 for Windows and Linux

Sophie 2 Author

Sophie 2 Reader

Sophie 2 Server

Mac OS Sophie 2 beta 2 packages

Sophie 2 Author

Sophie 2 Reader

Daily builds

These builds are the latest daily builds, in both ZIP and GZIP format. Use caution with these; the features present in these builds may not match that which is described in the ​documentation and have not been as tested as thoroughly as the regular release.

Build server

Source code

User documentation

Sample books

  • More demo books can be found here.

Previous releases