Tools

The Tools menu can be ac­cessed by click­ing on the Tools but­ton in the top menu bar. There are sev­er­al tools avail­able.

Pre­view

Pre­view is the de­fault in Inkwell and al­lows you to see a pdf pre­view screen of the cur­rent page. You can make the pre­view screen larg­er by click­ing on the left-point­ing ar­row.

Search

The Search func­tion al­lows you to search for a word or phrase and re­place the text if need­ed as well.

Cleanup

The Cleanup func­tion au­to­mat­i­cal­ly per­forms a search through the en­tire man­u­script or ar­ti­cle for any for­mat­ting is­sues. Click the Fix but­ton to cor­rect each is­sue.

His­to­ry

The His­to­ry op­tion dis­plays a list of all changes made to the man­u­script, in­clud­ing the date the changes were made and the name of the per­son who made the changes. Inkwell al­lows you to name each ver­sion by click­ing on the Book­mark but­ton . You can also re­vert to a pre­vi­ous ver­sion of your book or ar­ti­cle by click­ing on the Re­vert but­ton .

Col­lab­o­ra­tion

To in­vite some­one to col­lab­o­rate on your project, click Col­lab in the Tools menu. Type the email ad­dress in the In­vite box, then choose the ap­pro­pri­ate Role: Ad­min­is­trate, Edit, and Read. Ad­min­is­trate is the high­est lev­el of ac­cess, and al­lows all ac­tions that the cre­ator of the project can per­form.

A user that is grant­ed Ad­min­is­trate or Edit roles can edit the work. All ed­its are stored in Inkwell and pre­vi­ous ver­sions can be ac­cessed through the His­to­ry op­tion in the Tools menu as men­tioned above.

Fur­ther in­struc­tion on the process of col­lab­o­ra­tion and edit­ing can be found in the chap­ter on Col­lab­o­ra­tion.