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.

The current release is Sophie 2.0 test release 4

Release notes

• Installation instructions
• Known problems
• Reporting bugs

New features

• Java 5 compatibility
• Support for more media formats
• Text style persistence
• Auto chaining prototype
• Enhanced halos, HUDs and palettes
• Resource renaming and human-readable resource names
• Page links
• Saving a book to a server

Improvements

• More stable templates
• Better looking books palette
• Inserting tabs in spaces
• Books with audio and video are now persisted

Known issues:

• Only simple HTML documents can be imported.
• Auto chaining may break with long text.
• Importing an annotation set does not work.
• HUDs can be inaccessible in some cases as they are hidden by the window edges.
• Content cannot be used as a frame or page template.
• Resources cannot be deleted from a book.
• Books with text styling cannot be opened in Reader application.
• Grouping may break chaining and templating.
• Text collaboration is at alpha stage and may be unusable.
• HTML and PDF export do not work properly in some cases.
• Audio recording does not work yet.

Downloads

ZIP of Sophie 2 test release 4 for all platforms

Sophie 2 Author

• sophie2-testrelease4-author.zip

Sophie 2 Reader

• sophie2-testrelease4-reader.zip

Sophie 2 Server

• sophie2-testrelease4-server.zip

Installers of Sophie 2 test release 4 for Windows and Linux

Sophie 2 Author

• sophie2-testrelease4-author.jar

Sophie 2 Reader

• sophie2-testrelease4-reader.jar

MacOS Sophie 2 test release 4 packages

Sophie 2 Author

• sophie2-testrelease4-author-mac.zip

Sophie 2 Reader

• sophie2-testrelease4-reader-mac.zip

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.

• http://sophie2.org/daily_builds/

Build server

• Available at http://sophie2.org:8080/

Source code

• Source code can be checked out anonymously from Subversion: ​svn://sophie2.org/sophie2/tags/release-12-sophie2-testing4.

User documentation

• Documentation for Sophie 2.0 test release 4

Sample books

• More demo books can be found here.

Tutorials

• Basic tutorials on getting started with Sophie are available here.

Release schedule

• Release schedule

Previous releases

• Sophie 2.0 Test release 3
• Sophie 2.0 Test release 2
• Sophie 2.0 Test release 1
• Sophie 2.0 alpha 4
• Sophie 2.0 alpha 3
• Sophie 2.0 alpha 2
• Sophie 2.0 alpha 1
• Sophie 2.0 pre-alpha 5
• Sophie 2.0 pre-alpha 4
• Sophie 2.0 pre-alpha 3
• Sophie 2.0 pre-alpha 2