Hi! I saw the new option to click which pages to use a background image for, but when I downloaded the print file, it uploaded all backgrounds to every page rather than just the …
ShippedEditorHighlexi
From the Alhora team
We did look into this in V1.22.0. Will take another look at this just to check!
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We made it easier to override. When you select a chapter in the left pane, the left pane will show more details where you can now override elements specific to that chapter!
Hii! I've uploaded my manuscript but some of the "chapters" are actually for the front matter (eg. playlist, blurb etc.) . I tried to use the up arrow to push it to the Front …
ShippedEditorLowashleigh-r
From the Alhora team
Noted. I will extend the ability to move chapters up to the front matter if there are some nuances with manuscript imports!
Hello! I'd love to have the option of the front / back matter pages start on the right side! Right now, my dedication page starts on the left and Chapter 1 starts on the …
ShippedOtherHighjade
From the Alhora team
Hi Jade, good spot. It works for chapters, but not for front matter or back matter. We will copy the code across to work on front and back matter too!
Hi! I'd love to have the option to add multiple books covers since I have a different cover for my ebook vs paperback
ShippedEditorLowashleigh-r
From the Alhora team
Love the idea. We will start designing and seeing how this could ship!
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Update on this one — and a happy one. It shipped, in 1.24.0!
Book details → Metadata → Cover artwork now has an Ebook cover slot sitting right next to your front cover. Drop your ebook cover in there and the EPUB uses it; leave it empty and it keeps using your front cover exactly as before. Your printed wrap and 3D render don't change either way.
Apologies for leaving this sat on the roadmap when it was already in your hands. Thanks for asking for it.
Would love to see us get a tab that shows our different drafts. Like Draft 1 is separate from draft 2 while still being the same book. I poked all around in the app …
RoadmapEditorLowray-q
From the Alhora team
Hi Ray, I have started to develop this already. I expect it will be in the form of saving as a different version of your same book. Will be available shortly in v1.32.0
I was looking for this in Alhora: how do i save my project? What outcome would make this useful?
ShippedOtheremilyk
From the Alhora team
Hi Emily, by default, your projects always autosaves automatically after every few words you take, so you can be confident that your work is safe. For reassurance, in the top right, there is a ... menu. Save button also exists there :)
Add chapter wordcount as well as the total wordcount of the project. I've tried to find an option somewhere, to see if I've missed it, but I couldn't find it, so if it's there …
ShippedOtherHighcat-cn
From the Alhora team
This just shipped with the latest version. You can now see this in 2 ways:
1) The chapter pane, has number of words under the chapter. 2) Chapter Pulse view, click View at the top and select pulse.
Hey James, I wounder if there is a way to name a Chapter which is only to have a picture on it, but I do not want the name to some in the book, …
ShippedOtherLowe-r-williams
From the Alhora team
Two questions, and they turn out to have one answer each — one that already existed and one that was genuinely broken.
A chapter that shows only a picture, with no name printed: this is already there, and it's called Contents name. Every section has one. Whatever you type in it is what you see in the Contents pane on the left, and it is never printed in the book. So you can call it "Chapter One artwork", find it easily while you're working, and have the page itself print nothing but your picture. Leave the section's own title empty and the page stays bare.
The second one was a real bug, and you found it. When you added an image page, you got a grey placeholder with no way to click it — the only route in was dragging a picture from the Assets panel, and that quietly added a SECOND image block rather than filling the empty one. No wonder it felt broken.
Fixed in 1.28.0: the placeholder is now the button. Click it and you can pick a picture you've already brought into the book, or import a new one on the spot.
Thank you for reporting it. It had been sitting there since image pages shipped.
I have one chapter which is written as a letter to my book subject, I do not want this to have new lines indented. Just all left aligned. I have also tried to put …
ShippedOtherHighe-r-williams
From the Alhora team
Built, and it works exactly the way you described wanting it.
Select the chapter in the Contents pane on the left, and in its settings you'll find a tick called "Indent the first line of each paragraph". Untick it, and that one chapter sits flush left while every other chapter in the book keeps its indents. Your letter chapter can now be a letter.
It works on front and back matter too, so a list, an acknowledgements page or a playlist can refuse indents the same way.
Thank you for describing the workaround you'd tried — putting it all in one paragraph — because that told me straight away that this was a real gap and not a setting you'd missed. It genuinely wasn't there before. It is now.
I am trying to set an ornament for the ebook and kindle versions only as the print book will have full chapter title page art, and no ornament. I am clicking on print and …
ShippedOthere-r-williams
From the Alhora team
You weren't doing anything wrong — the setting you were looking for didn't exist, and the way the app was laid out made it look like it did. Sorry for the time you spent on that.
Here's what was happening. The ornament lives on your style, and a style is one thing your whole book shares. Switching the preview between print and ebook/Kindle only changed what you were looking at, not which edition you were editing — so removing the ornament removed it from both, every time.
Fixed in 1.28.0. In Style Studio, underneath the ornament you've chosen, there's now a row called "Show it in" with two boxes: Printed book, and Ebook. Untick Printed book and leave Ebook ticked, and you get precisely what you asked for — full-page chapter title art in the print edition with no ornament, and the ornament in the ebook and Kindle files.
One tidy detail while I was in there: an ornament the ebook no longer shows is also no longer packed into the EPUB file, so you're not carrying an image no reader will ever see.
if we're meant to write directly on the editor (which would be great) paragraph break should happen with pressing enter, so we get the indent. Shouldn't need to press the plus sign for every …
ShippedEditorHighcat-cn
From the Alhora team
You absolutely are meant to write directly in the editor, and what you're describing already works — you just need the other mode! Look at the top bar for the Blocks / Write toggle and switch to Write. In Write mode, Enter does exactly what you'd expect: it starts a real new paragraph with the proper first-line indent, no plus sign anywhere. Blocks mode is the deliberately structural one, where each element is a card you place on purpose — it's brilliant for arranging images, quotes and scene breaks, but it's not the mode for drafting flowing prose. Try Write mode and I think you'll find it's the editor you were hoping for. Genuinely useful signal that the toggle isn't obvious enough, though, so thank you! If you think this is wrong guidance based on what you are looking to achieve, please email me at [email protected].