An Introduction to Sophie

In the current release of Sophie, saving and opening books doesn't work. However, Sophie can still do many things. This tutorial will walk you through starting Sophie and making a simple book.

To get started with Sophie, you need to download it from the download page. You'll end up with a .zip file; you'll need to unzip that. If you're running on Windows, double-click the file build_run.bat to start Sophie. If you're running Linux, execute build_run.sh. If you're running Mac, things are a bit more complicated: see the installation instructions here for instructions on how to get Sophie running on a Mac.

When you start up Sophie, it will look something like this:

That red rectangle is the book desktop. The book desktop appears behind all books that are open in Sophie.

First, let's make a new book. To make a new book, choose File > New Book. Now your Sophie will look something like this: