IntroductionWelcome| 00:00 |
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Hi, I'm Joseph Linaschke.
Photographic storyteller and travel
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writer, educator and the aperture expert.
I travel the world for my clients
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shooting everything from portraits to
concerts, weddings to lifestyle, and
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commercial to corporate.
I teach photography workshops, and also
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work with schools around the globe
helping them to integrate photography
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into their curriculum and teaching how to
use the camera as a learning tool.
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I also run the website,
apertureexpert.com, helping users
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worldwide get the most from Apple's
Aperture software.
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iBooks author, is a powerful page layout
application, that allows you to integrate
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text, photos, slideshows, video, audio,
and even quizzes into your iBook.
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Whether you're writing an educational
textbook for scchools, a modern software
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training manual, a phototravel storybook
like we are in this video course, or even
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just making the most incredible family
photo album you've ever seen.
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iBooks Author can do it all.
Of course, an application this powerful,
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has a ton of advanced features, and
knowing how to use them, before you
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tackle your first big project, can make a
huge difference to your iBooks experience.
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Join me, as we cover basics, like adding
photos and video, flowing text around
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objects, inserting chapters, and even
previewing your creation on an iPad.
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Then we'll dive into more complex tasks
like customizing layouts and
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understanding master objects, adding
slideshows and quizzes and so much more.
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This course is broken into a series of
bite sized segments so you can easily
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repeat a lesson or jump around however
you like.
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Whether you're working on your first or
your tenth iBook, whenever you have a
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question about a specific feature, you
can come back and watch just that video
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at any time.
Let's get started with a basic workflow overview.
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1. Getting Started with iBooks AuthoriBooks tour| 00:02 |
To open your iBooks, simply tap on the
book on the bookshelf.
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You'll see it zoom up to the cover and
then open to the front page.
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The first page may be video or slideshow
and if you don't want to watch that, you
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can skip past it by simply swiping your
finger across the page.
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The first view will be the Table of
Contents view.
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Right now we're looking at the
introduction chapter, but to swipe to the
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next chapter, simply tap on the screen
and swipe over to Chapter One, to Chapter
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Two and so on.
Notice at the bottom of the page, there
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are a series of pages here showing all
the different pages in that particular chapter.
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We swipe back to the previous chapter,
you can see the page is there, and again
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on the introduction.
You can also jump between chapters by
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dragging your finger along the dots on
the bottom of the page.
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You can jump straight to a section in a
chapter by tapping on the section header
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over here.
And to return to the chapter view, you
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can tap on the screen, then tap this
Chapter icon and tap Table of Contents.
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Or alternatively, you can go to any page
by simply tapping the page you want to
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view, and then pinching to go back to the
main Table of Contents view.
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Let's take a look at some of the
navigation inside the books themselves.
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On this page you'll see that we have a
picture.
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But it's not just a picture.
It's actually a gallery, and we know that
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it's a gallery because there's a row of
dots along the bottom underneath the photo.
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This tells me that if I swipe along the
picture itself, I'll be able to see
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additional photos there.
When you come to the last picture in the
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gallery, if you swipe again, it'll
automatically take you to the next page.
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If you'd like to see a gallery larger,
you can actually do that by simply
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tapping on the picture to open it up
full-screen.
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If there's captions you'll see those at
the bottom of the screen, but you can
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hide those as well, by tapping one more
time.
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Now you can swipe between the pictures,
viewing them full screen without any
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captions or other text over your screen.
To retain to the main book view, tap once
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to bring up the menu and then tap the X
to close the window.
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Or what you can also do is pinch to go
into the slideshow and pinch to come back
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out again.
Not all galleries can be viewed full screen.
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For example if we go to the next chapter
here, you'll see a larger gallery where
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by default the pictures are taking up
most of the screen.
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When you see a gallery like this tapping
on the image will not bring it up full screen.
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You're already looking at it at a large
size, and that's as large as you will be
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able to view it.
On this gallery notice that instead of
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just a series of dots we actually see a
series of thumbnails along the bottom
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showing the different images in the
gallery.
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You can tap on those individual
thumbnails to view the photo or simply
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swipe along just as before to view the
next picture.
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If you want to go to the next page, but you
don't want to wait til the end of the
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slideshow, simply tap and drag anywhere
on the page where there's not a picture.
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On this page, you'll see some highlighted
text, that has been highlighted as a note.
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To view the notes, simply tap the screen,
and then tap on the Notes icon.
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This will show you all the different
notes that you may have added to your book.
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Let's go ahead and add a new note.
Tap done.
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Go to another page.
And then I'll highlight some text in here
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to create a note from.
Simply tap and drag over the text to
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highlight the area that you want to note.
And tap on your highlighted text, you'll
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be able to choose a different color for
the highlight.
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There's green, and blue, and pink, and
more.
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And you can also choose to underline your
text instead of highlighting it.
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To clear a highlight, simply tap on the
Clear icon, next time you highlight text.
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iBooks will use the same highlighting
method that you last used.
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But of course you can choose that at any
time, by tapping on it, and choosing a
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different color.
If you want to add a personalized note to
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your highlight, simply tap on the Notes
icon, and type in whatever you like.
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Great idea.
Now, whenever you go to your notes view,
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by tapping on the notes icon in the menu
bar, you'll be able to see the
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highlighted text, as well as the note
that you added.
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Once you've created a series of notes,
you'll be able to use those notes as
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study cards.
Simply tap on the study cards button, and
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you'll see all of your notes presented
for you in a traditional study card fashion.
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If you want to see the comment that you
added to your notes, simply tap the note
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in the corner to flip it around and see
what you added on the back.
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This can be a great way to quiz yourself
on the content of your book.
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The study cards also, by default, include
the glossary terms that may have been
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included by the author.
However if you don't want to include the
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glossary terms, you can disable that and
turn those off.
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If you tap on Highlights and Notes,
you'll be able to choose exactly which
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highlighting notes you see in your study
cards.
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Finally, you can also have iBooks
autmatically shuffle your notes for you.
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That's a great idea if you're going to be
quizzing yourself.
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When you're done with the study cards,
simply tap on the Done button.
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Back in the Notes view, if you want to
share a note, you can tap on the Share icon.
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Select the notes you might want to share
and then email those.
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You can also delete from here.
Finally, when your done simply tap on the
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done button.
Back to the menu bar you'll see a few
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more options up at the top.
First you have the Brightness slider.
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This will allow you to change the
brightness of the overall page, which can
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make reading your iBook in low light
situation, a bit easier on your eyes.
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You can also search the entire book, by
simply typing in any phrase that you
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like, or a page number, to search for
that particular content throughout the book.
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Finally, you have the Bookmark option.
This allows you to add a bookmark to any
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point of the book that you like.
As you can see, there's already another
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bookmark in here.
An if I tap on that, it'll take me
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straight to that page.
In your normal view, whenever you're
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looking at a page that has a bookmark,
you'll see an indicator up in the top
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right corner.
Finally, when you're done viewing your
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book, you can simply pitch out to the
main chapter.
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Or just have anywhere and then tap on the
library button and that will put your
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book back on the shelf.
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| Introduction and workflow overview| 00:00 |
Welcome to iBooks Author, the
revolutionary new way to create books for
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your iPad that are full of rich media
content, not only text and pictures, but
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also slide shows, video, quizzes for your
readers, and more.
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To get started, all you have to do is
pick a template, click Choose, and start
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creating your book.
The basic overview of a book is that it's
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comprised of chapters, and within
chapters you have sections, and within
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sections you have pages.
As you can see, there are templates
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already laid out in here for you, and you
can even choose different layouts or
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customize and create your own.
Every book also has a title and a cover,
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Introductory media, this can be a movie
or a still image, the Table of Contents,
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which is going to be generated
automatically, but it's always a good
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idea to take a look at it, and a
Glossary.
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As you're creating your book, you can
create Glossary entries for any piece of
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text in the entire book that you like.
While editing your book, it's a good idea
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to check the orientation.
If your reader rotates the book to
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vertical, you'll want to make sure that
what they're seeing is exactly what you expect.
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You can also lock that out, so that your
viewers can only view your book in
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landscape mode.
As you're creating your content, you can
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create text boxes, shapes, add tables and
charts, and also a series of widgets to
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your book.
These widgets can be things like Photo
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Galleries, Rich Media like video or
audio, Keynote Presentations, Review
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Quizzes, so you can make sure your
readers are learning what they need to
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learn, Interactive Images, 3D files and
even customized HTML mini applications
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that you can drop into your book.
You'll want to preview your book often
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while you're making it.
When you click on Preview, it will
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automatically open your iBook on your
connected iPad so that you can see
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exactly what your users will experience.
And when you're ready to publish it,
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simply click on Publish and it will take
you through the process of publishing the
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book to the bookstore.
However, that's not the only way to get
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the book out.
You go to the File menu, you can choose
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to export this out as an iBooks file,
which you can then freely put on your website.
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The Apple Terms of Service regarding
iBooks say that if you're going to give
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an iBook away for free, you can put it
anywhere you like.
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However, if you're going to sell the
content, you are bound to sell it only
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through the iBook Store.
You can also export out of PDF or a plain
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text version of your book.
And that's all there is to it.
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Creating a book with iBooks Author is
quite simple.
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All you have to do is pick a template,
add your content, and publish it.
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| Interface tour| 00:02 |
Understanding the basic layout, of iBooks
Author, will go a long way towards making
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your book making experience mush
smoother.
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Let's start with a basic tour, of where
all the most important tools are.
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To start, you'll notice, that we're
viewing our page here, but we're not
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actually seeing the entire page at once.
If you go down to the bottom, you'll
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notice, that I'm looking at it, at 100%.
However, I can scroll down and choose fit
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to page, which will allow me to see the
entire page at once, no matter what
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screen size I'm working on.
From here I can actually scroll side to
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side to see the other pages in this
chapter.
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You notice that you can also peruse the
entire book by scrolling over here on the left.
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We have a great thumbnail view of every
chapter in the book.
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Up at the top of that, you'll see that
you have access to your book cover.
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Any intro media that you may have added,
this can be movies or pictures, your
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table of contents, and also your
glossary.
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To create a new page, simply click on Add
Pages, and choose to Add Chapters,
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Sections, or Individual Pages to your
book.
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The view menu gives you a variety of ways
to view the book and the content that
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you're working with.
Again, we're looking at this right now in
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the Thumbnails view.
However, you can also switch to a book
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Outline view giving you a text based
overview of every page in your book.
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I prefer the Page Thumbnails, I like that
visual representation.
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You can also choose to enable the
Glossary toolbar.
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This allows you to very easily add
glossary terms into the glossary.
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Or link existing glossary entries to text
that you add into the book.
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There are a variety of other things you
can show in your format.
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Let's start at the bottom with Show
Invisible.
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When I select that, you'll notice that
every space, every return, tab, and so
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on, are represented in blue, within the
page.
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I can show the Layout Boundaries, which
will show me exactly where my basic
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Layout Boundaries are, within the book.
I can choose to show or hide my Rulers.
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I can show or hide the Format Bar, which
is very handy, this allows you to very
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quickly, access things like, different
fonts, bold and italics, text layouts,
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and even how many columns are on a page.
You can choose to view your layouts,
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which are your basic layout templates,
which are, by the way, completely
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customizable, within iBooks Author.
And you could also choose to show or hide
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your Styles Drawer.
Now, the styles can be accessed from this
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drop down here on the toolbar.
Showing all the different styles that are
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built in, or that you may have created.
However if you're on a larger screen,
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what you may want to do is simply make the
window a little bit smaller, and then
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open up the Styles Drawer.
This allows you to see all the different
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styles, at all times.
You can also, access your character
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styles, and list styles, from here as
well.
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You can toggle that open and close, with
this little blue button here.
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Next to the view options, you'll see that
you have the ability to toggle between orientations.
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To vertical, so you can what your book
will look like in a vertical orientation,
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or back to horizontal.
Next to that, you have a series of icons
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allowing you to add different pieces to
your project.
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You can add a simple text box, you can
add a variety of shapes, including
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customized shapes that you can draw
freehand.
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You can add tables, and charts, both in
2D and 3D, and you can add a series of widgets.
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The widgets are incredibly powerful,
allowing you to add things like Picture
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Galleries, Keynote Presentations,
Interactive Images and much more.
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You can preview your book on a connected
iPad by clicking the preview button.
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There's a preference setting that'll
allow you to automatically preview the
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entire book, or just the chapter that
you're currently working on.
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When you're ready to publish your book,
the Publish button is right here.
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There's also an inspector, which you're
going to find you'll spend a lot of time in,
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which allows you to see all kinds of
details about your document.
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To start off you'll see that we have our
basic document settings.
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Things like your author, and title, and
keywords.
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But then as you go through these
different tabs, you'll see you have
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control of your Layouts, your Text Flow,
the text itself, any graphics you may
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have imported.
You also have a Metrics Inspector, so if
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you want to precisely size a picture or
text block you can do that here.
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If you have added a table you'll find
control for that here, and the same for charts.
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You can add hyperlinks throughout your
documents, you will control those here
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and then finally you have your Widget
Inspector.
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Any widget that is created here again
Galleries, Reviews, Interactive Images
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and so on, will be controlled completely
from the Widget Inspector.
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So, as you can see, this is a very
important tab, you'll probably have open
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quite often.
The Media Browser, allows you to access
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media in your iPicture or iPhoto library,
movies in your movies folder, and audio,
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in iTunes.
So, if you want to add any music, photos,
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or movies to your project, you have
access to them here.
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Finally you have your standard OS color,
and font window that you can access here
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as well.
It's always a good idea to know exactly
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what your options are and the
preferences.
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I encourage you to open the iBooks Author
Preferences, and take a look at the
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different settings you have in here.
Or General settings, settings for Rulers
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and Alignment, and also auto correction.
So, as you're typing, certain characters
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can automatically be replaced.
For example, if you enable use Smart
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Quotes, instead of Straight Quotes,
you'll get Curly Quotes around your text.
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There are a series of other options that
we're not going to go through one by one
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in here.
But if you take some time to go through
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these, you'll find a variety of options
that you may want to take advantage of
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while you are working on your book.
Finally if you need help at any time,
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simply click on the Help menu, and open
the iBooks Author help.
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A full comprehensive online help is built
into the application, and should be able
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to answer most of the questions you might
have.
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| Templates tour| 00:00 |
IBooks Author includes a variety of
templates that you can choose from.
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To access the Template Chooser, simply go
to the File menu and choose New from
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Template Chooser.
And that will open the window you see here.
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As you can see there are a variety of six
different templates that Apple has included.
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However you can also add more to this and
we'll come to that in just a moment.
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It's a good idea to explore all the
templates you have available before
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starting your book.
Let's start with the basic template in here.
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When you're looking at the options that
you have, it's important to click on the
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Add Pages button and explore all the
different chapter, section and page layouts.
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Let's take a look at another one.
I'll take Contemporary this time, and
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choose that.
And you may notice, that all the same
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options are in here, under Chapter >
Section, and pages.
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Let's take a closer look.
Under Chapter, you have a basic chapter
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header, as well as a preface.
That's something you'll find in most
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books, so it's been included in the
template.
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Under the section, you have a section
header, a section text, and then special
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sections like your copywrite page, a
dedication and even a forward page.
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Finally, under the pages templates you'll
have a default which as you can see is
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usually a two column layout.
And then you have a simple one column,
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two column, three column layout, as well
as a blank page.
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Let's take a look at one more.
I'll choose the craft one, which is quite
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graphics heavy.
As you can see in here once again, under
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Add Pages you have your basic chapter,
section, and pages layout.
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However, this one's a little bit more
creative.
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So, once again, it's important to look at
all the different templates that you
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have, so you can choose the one that
works best for you.
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Now, keep in mind, that just because you
choose a template, doesn't mean that
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you're locked into these specific
layouts.
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At any time, you can go into your Layouts
view, and completely customize the
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templates that are in here.
You can modify them slightly or you can
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create your own completely from scratch.
There's nothing saying that you have to
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use the templates that are built in from
Apple.
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Just choose a basic one to start with,
throw everything away, and start
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completely on your own.
However, if you don't want to do that,
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you can also find additional templates
online that you can download and add into
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your collection.
Let's switch over to Safari and just
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quickly search for iBooks templates.
And as you can see, there are quite a few
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results in here of different templates
and themes that people have created and
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provided for you to download.
Some are for pay, and some will be free.
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Chances are, you'll be able to find what
you're looking for.
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And again, if not, you can always create
your own.
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| Creating your first iBook in just four minutes| 00:02 |
Let's see how easy it is to create a
brand new book using iBooks Author.
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When you first launch iBooks Author,
you'll be presented with a Template
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Chooser that has a series of templates
that you can choose from that Apple has
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provided for you.
I'm going to use this one called Craft, and
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when you click on Choose, you'll see that
it creates a brand new document for you
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that has pictures and text already laid
out for you.
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Let's zoom out of this so we can see the
whole thing at once.
| | 00:28 |
The first thing I'll do is name my first
chapter.
| | 00:31 |
This book is going to be all about a trip
to Vietnam, so we're going to call
| | 00:34 |
chapter one Ho Chi Minh City.
The next thing I want to do is add some images.
| | 00:41 |
If you open the Media Browser, you'll see
that you have access to all of your
| | 00:44 |
Aperture or iPhoto images.
I already have a whole bunch of photos
| | 00:48 |
from Vietnam added into my Aperture
library, so I'm going to use some of these.
| | 00:51 |
To add one of these photos to your
project, simply click and drag it right in.
| | 00:57 |
Let's add a couple more.
And one more from down here.
| | 01:03 |
To change the text in your book simply
click on a text box and start typing.
| | 01:09 |
This is all about my trip to Vietnam.
Great, now beyond the chapter you will
| | 01:13 |
see that you have something called a
section and within the section, are a
| | 01:17 |
series of pages.
Section One is created for us
| | 01:22 |
automatically, and I'm going to go ahead and
title this Day One, and add another
| | 01:25 |
picture to it as well.
I also want to add some more copy in
| | 01:30 |
here, but you don't want to watch me type
that in, so I already have a bunch of
| | 01:33 |
text sitting over here in Text Edit.
I could copy and paste this in, or simply
| | 01:38 |
select it and then click and drag that
in.
| | 01:43 |
When you drag that in, you'll notice that
it is already being formatted into this
| | 01:46 |
two column layout, which of course we
could modify if we wanted to.
| | 01:50 |
We're almost ready to publish, but before
we do, I'm going to click on Book Title
| | 01:53 |
and change the title and the cover of the
book.
| | 01:57 |
Let's call this book Vietnam.
And we'll need a good picture for the cover.
| | 02:02 |
How about this one here?
There we go.
| | 02:08 |
Maybe I should add my name at the bottom
too.
| | 02:13 |
Perfect, now we're ready to try out our
book.
| | 02:16 |
To preview this, all you need to do is
click on the Preview button.
| | 02:20 |
The first time you do, it's going to tell
you to make sure that your iPad is
| | 02:22 |
connected, and that iBooks is already
launched.
| | 02:25 |
It is on mine, so I'm going to go ahead and
click OK.
| | 02:31 |
As you can see, our book is automatically
opened for us.
| | 02:35 |
We can swipe through the different
chapters here.
| | 02:38 |
You can pinch out of the chapter to look
at the table of contents.
| | 02:42 |
And if you tap on the Library button,
it'll take you back to your Bookshelf,
| | 02:45 |
where you can see the book, and its
cover.
| | 02:48 |
So, as you can see, creating an iBook is
incredibly easy.
| | 02:53 |
Beyond this, everything else is just
details.
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2. Creating Your Cover and IntroductionCreating a cover| 00:02 |
Any book publisher will tell you that a
good quality cover that's eyecatching and
| | 00:05 |
easy to read is incredibly important.
The same goes for digital books as well.
| | 00:11 |
To change your book cover, scroll up to
the very top of your page list and click
| | 00:14 |
on the top icon, which is for your cover.
Here you can see that you can add a picture.
| | 00:20 |
Change your title and also write who it's
from.
| | 00:23 |
You can add other elements to it as well,
but let's keep it simple.
| | 00:26 |
Keep in mind that the overall view of
this on the iBooks bookshelf is going to
| | 00:29 |
be quite small.
Let's start by changing the picture.
| | 00:33 |
If I click on Media I have access to all
the photos in my Aperture or iPhoto library.
| | 00:38 |
From here I can pick any picture that I
wanted and in this case I'm going to grab
| | 00:41 |
this one here.
As I drag and drop it on to the book
| | 00:45 |
cover, you'll see that at first it's not
aligned very well.
| | 00:49 |
By simply double tapping it, I can click
and drag in here to rearrange the picture
| | 00:52 |
however I like.
Let's put her up against the edge of the
| | 00:56 |
book, right about so.
However, now as you can see, the title is
| | 01:00 |
covering her face.
I can rearrange this however I like.
| | 01:04 |
Simply click and drag this to move it
around.
| | 01:06 |
And if the type's too large, I can select
that, go to my font size here and try
| | 01:10 |
something a bit smaller.
That might be a little bit too small, so
| | 01:16 |
maybe I'll type in a number manually.
Let's try 130.
| | 01:21 |
Great.
While I'm in here, I could also change
| | 01:24 |
the font color by choosing any basic
color here.
| | 01:26 |
Or if I open the Show Colors dialog, I
can then grab the Eyedropper and sample a
| | 01:30 |
color from somewhere else on the page.
For example, let's take the red of her shirt.
| | 01:38 |
Looks pretty good.
Might be a little bit dark.
| | 01:39 |
So I think I'll select that and just
brighten it up a little bit.
| | 01:44 |
Great.
If you want to adjust the shadow, go
| | 01:47 |
ahead and open up the Inspector, click on
the Graphics Layer, select away from your
| | 01:51 |
text and click it again.
That tells you that you've actually
| | 01:55 |
selected the graphic element itself.
And then here you have the Shadow controls.
| | 02:00 |
You can turn that on or off.
Make it more or less offset, more blurred
| | 02:04 |
and more or less opaque.
So you have complete control over the
| | 02:07 |
drop shadow under your text.
You really want to make sure that it stands
| | 02:11 |
out and it's very easy to read.
In fact, for this particular title, I
| | 02:14 |
think I'm just going to go back to basic
white.
| | 02:18 |
Don't forget to add your own name down
here.
| | 02:20 |
That's pretty important as well.
Once you're ready to preview your cover,
| | 02:25 |
simply click on the Preview button, and
iBooks Author will generate a preview of
| | 02:30 |
the book, and push it over to your
connected iPad.
| | 02:35 |
As you can see, the new book cover looks
great.
| | 02:38 |
You can swipe through your book, but of
course what we really want to see is how
| | 02:40 |
the book looks on the bookshelf.
So, simply tap your iPad screen and then
| | 02:45 |
tap the Library button up in the top
left.
| | 02:49 |
This will then close your book and put it
back on the shelf.
| | 02:51 |
So now you can see exactly what it looks
like.
| | 02:54 |
Naturally, that proof band there that is
sitting across her face, won't be there
| | 02:57 |
for the final publication.
But this allows you to see how your book
| | 03:01 |
stacks up against other books you may
already have on your bookshelf.
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| Adding an introductory image or video| 00:02 |
The first thing your viewers will see is
the cover of your book.
| | 00:04 |
But as soon as they tap on the, the
bookshelf.
| | 00:07 |
The book is going to open and present
them with the Intro Media.
| | 00:10 |
Now, this is something, you don't have to
include.
| | 00:12 |
And if you choose not to, then the book
will immediately open up to either the
| | 00:15 |
first chapter or the Table of Contents,
or wherever they last left off.
| | 00:20 |
However, if you choose to include the
Intro Media, the first time they open the
| | 00:23 |
book, this is exactly what they'll see.
Now, the Intro Media can either be a
| | 00:27 |
movie or an image, and this is a great
way to draw your viewers into your story.
| | 00:34 |
I'll start by adding something simple,
just a picture.
| | 00:37 |
From the Media Browser, under Photos, I
can view my photos in Aperture or in iPhoto.
| | 00:43 |
You can add any photo that you want.
Pick something that's nicely
| | 00:46 |
representative of the book and simply
drag and drop that in.
| | 00:50 |
Now you'll notice, if you bring in
something that doesn't quite fit in the
| | 00:53 |
aspect ratio, you're going to find black
bars on the sides or on the top and
| | 00:56 |
bottom of the image, and this is how
it'll look on the iPad.
| | 01:00 |
Chances are, that's not what you want.
What you really want to do is have this
| | 01:03 |
image fill the entire screen.
So, be sure to size it up large enough
| | 01:07 |
and reposition it, so you see just the
picture and none of those annoying black bars.
| | 01:14 |
Now, Still Photo is one way to do it, but
of course, it would be much more dynamic
| | 01:17 |
to add a movie.
You can add any .m4v file into here,
| | 01:21 |
however, if the aspect ratio doesn't
match the book and you're going to find
| | 01:24 |
those black bars again.
So let's take a look at a couple
| | 01:28 |
different movies.
Here, I have one that's a 16 by 9 ratio,
| | 01:31 |
and then, one that was custom built.
It's something a little bit different.
| | 01:35 |
We'll come back to that.
Let's start with the basic 16 by 9.
| | 01:39 |
I can take this movie and drag and drop
it onto the interface and it will
| | 01:42 |
automatically place it in my book.
From here, if I want to preview it, just
| | 01:47 |
click on the Play button and you can see
what it looks like.
| | 01:51 |
Now, you could also choose to resize this
in here and that will work just fine.
| | 01:55 |
So if I want to fill the space, just like
with a picture, I simply resize the movie.
| | 02:03 |
And now, when the books opens, they'll
see it (NOISE) filling the screen.
| | 02:07 |
But this is also a neat opportunity to
create a totally customized video.
| | 02:12 |
And that's exactly what I have back in
the Finder.
| | 02:14 |
I'll delete that.
Let's go back to the Finder.
| | 02:17 |
Let's take a look at this movie here I
set.
| | 02:19 |
You'll notice that this movie is not a 16
by 9 ratio.
| | 02:22 |
Let's take a look at what it is.
If I show the Movie Inspector, you'll see
| | 02:26 |
that the size that we have in here, it's
actually 985 by 720.
| | 02:32 |
It's a curious size and I built this
specifically for this iBook.
| | 02:36 |
So, let's start with the height, 720.
For those of you familiar with
| | 02:40 |
high-definition movie formats, you may
recognize that that is close to the 1280
| | 02:43 |
by 720 standard high-definition movie
format.
| | 02:46 |
The step up from that is 1080p or 1920 by
1080.
| | 02:51 |
However, I didn't want to make a huge video
that may not play on some older iPads.
| | 02:55 |
I wanted to make sure that this movie
would play no matter what device we're using.
| | 02:59 |
So I chose to go with a basic 720p.
However again, you'll notice this is not
| | 03:04 |
1280 pixels wide, because I custom built
this to be the exact size of the window
| | 03:07 |
that I'll be working with.
I built this movie inside of Keynote.
| | 03:12 |
All this is, is a Keynote animation with
music applied to it.
| | 03:15 |
Let's take a look at the first few
seconds of it.
| | 03:17 |
(NOISE) (music playing)
It's a series of photos that are animated
| | 03:23 |
using Keynote with some audio recorded in
Vietnam in the background.
| | 03:32 |
So this is sized to play perfectly within
my book.
| | 03:36 |
I'll just drag and drop that in, return
to iBooks Author, and now, we can see
| | 03:42 |
what this look like.
(NOISE) (music playing)
| | 03:47 |
Let's see what this looks like when we
actually publish this out to the iPad.
| | 03:52 |
(NOISE) (music playing)
Now with your preview updated, you'll see
| | 03:54 |
your animation playing as your customers
will see it on their iPad.
| | 03:58 |
So once again, this is a fantastic way to
draw your viewers into the book that
| | 04:01 |
they're about to enjoy.
Once it's done playing, iBooks Author
| | 04:05 |
will automatically advance to the next
page.
| | 04:09 |
If you ever want to see the movie again,
you can swipe forward or back and back
| | 04:23 |
into that movie
| | 04:26 |
(NOISE)
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3. Book-Design BasicsUnderstanding and adding chapters, sections, and pages| 00:02 |
When creating a book in iBooks Author.
It's important to understand the
| | 00:06 |
difference and the relationship between
chapters, sections and pages.
| | 00:10 |
If you don't fully understand the
structure to begin with, you could end up
| | 00:12 |
laying out your book in a way that
doesn't make complete sense.
| | 00:16 |
And it's most simple, chapters contain
sections.
| | 00:21 |
And sections contain pages.
However, it is possible to break that
| | 00:24 |
rule a little bit.
Let's start by simply deleting what we
| | 00:28 |
have in here and starting completely from
scratch.
| | 00:31 |
You'll notice that with no pages
existing, if I go to Add Pages, I can add
| | 00:35 |
a chapter or a section but I cannot add a
page.
| | 00:40 |
So a page can not exist outside of a
section or a chapter.
| | 00:43 |
To create a chapter, simply choose
Chapter or Preface and it will add that
| | 00:47 |
into the book.
You can of course at any time, click on
| | 00:52 |
the Drop Down here and switch between the
Chapter or Preface Layout.
| | 00:59 |
To add a section into this chapter, go
back to pages and choose a new section to
| | 01:03 |
add into there.
You can manually add pages to that now by
| | 01:07 |
choosing add pages.
And selecting the layout, or pages will
| | 01:11 |
automatically be edited for you as you
add content into your section.
| | 01:16 |
It is actually possible to add a page to
a chapter that's outside of a section.
| | 01:21 |
Here I've selected the first chapter.
And I will then choose to add the page to it.
| | 01:26 |
However, there is an issue when I do
this.
| | 01:29 |
The problem is that this first page will
not show up in the table of contents.
| | 01:35 |
The table of contents is built
automatically based off of your chapters
| | 01:38 |
and sections.
The pages that are floating freely will
| | 01:42 |
not show up.
So for example, let's go back to this
| | 01:45 |
first section.
And we'll just title this something
| | 01:49 |
simple like Ant Hill to go along with the
theme of the default photos that are in here.
| | 01:55 |
And I'll add another section in here and
we'll simply call this one Ants.
| | 02:01 |
So I have section 1 is Ant Hill and
section 2 is Ants.
| | 02:05 |
And up here on this blank page we'll just
add some basic text here.
| | 02:09 |
We'll say something like, this is a story
about ants.
| | 02:13 |
Now when I go to my table of contents
you'll see that I have my first section
| | 02:17 |
Ant Hill and the second Ants.
However, this earlier page is nowhere to
| | 02:21 |
be seen.
That doesn't mean that you can't put
| | 02:24 |
pages in there, it is just something to
be aware of.
| | 02:27 |
As far as rearranging content within your
book, it's quite simple.
| | 02:29 |
Simply click and drag to rearrange the
pages where ever you'd like them.
| | 02:33 |
You could also drag a section outside of
a chapter.
| | 02:36 |
So, for example, I'll take Section 1 here
and drag it up before the chapter.
| | 02:40 |
Watch the blue line that shows up between
pages as you're moving this around to see
| | 02:43 |
exactly where it's going to drop.
You might want to add a section before a
| | 02:50 |
chapter if it's something like a foreword
or a dedication or a copyright that you
| | 02:54 |
might put at the end.
If you have something that belongs at the
| | 03:00 |
end, simply drag it into place by
dragging it down.
| | 03:03 |
Let's take a look at a more complete
book.
| | 03:05 |
So you can see what it looks like when
you have a lot more chapters and pages
| | 03:07 |
put together.
In this book about Vietnam, you'll see
| | 03:11 |
that we have a section here that is
labled as an introduction.
| | 03:15 |
Then after that, Chapter 1.
Chapter 2 and so on.
| | 03:20 |
Each one of these chapters has a series
of sections in it and each one of these
| | 03:23 |
sections has a series of pages.
So now, when we go to look at the table
| | 03:28 |
of contents, you'll see that the table of
contents has been completely generated automatically.
| | 03:32 |
Here I have my introduction with the
sections inside of that.
| | 03:36 |
And to click through the other sections,
simply click, or tap, on these little
| | 03:38 |
dots at the bottom.
On the iPad, of course you would be
| | 03:41 |
swiping through these, but here you have
to click.
| | 03:45 |
Notice that each section has
automatically been added into here.
| | 03:48 |
You'll also notice this ghosted out area
at the bottom.
| | 03:51 |
This is to show you where automatic
thumbnails of the pages that you've
| | 03:54 |
created will show up on the iPad.
Let's take a look at what this looks like
| | 04:00 |
once it's been exported out to the iPad.
Here I'm looking at the same book on the iPad.
| | 04:05 |
As I swipe through, you'll notice we have
the Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2,
| | 04:10 |
and so on.
Each one of these chapters has a
| | 04:14 |
individual section listed in it over on
the left.
| | 04:18 |
At the bottom you'll see a thumbnail
preview of each of the pages within that section.
| | 04:23 |
As you swipe through the pages, if you
swipe back, you'll automatically flip to
| | 04:26 |
the previous chapter.
You can jump straight to a section, by
| | 04:32 |
simply tapping on the section name.
You can return to the Table of Contents,
| | 04:36 |
by tapping the screen once and tapping
the List icon next the Library button.
| | 04:41 |
This will offer to take you to the Table
of Contents or to the Glossary.
| | 04:44 |
If I return to the table of contents,
you'll see that we're back where we started.
| | 04:48 |
As you can see, having a clean
organization of your chapters, sections,
| | 04:52 |
and pages makes your book layout logical.
And makes it easier for your customers
| | 04:57 |
and readers to follow along.
| | 04:58 |
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| Importing text| 00:00 |
When adding text in iBooks Author you can
select the template text that's in there
| | 00:05 |
and just start typing if you like.
However, you may find that it's easier to
| | 00:11 |
do most of your copy writing in another
application, such as Pages or Microsoft Word.
| | 00:18 |
Once your copy is done you can insert it
into your iBook by simply choosing Insert
| | 00:22 |
chapter from Pages or Word document.
Here I have a pages document that has a
| | 00:29 |
block of text.
If you're looking at a lot of documents
| | 00:32 |
and you aren't quite sure which one you
need to add, you can select it and tap
| | 00:35 |
the spacebar to open up a Quick Look
preview of the text that you're about to insert.
| | 00:42 |
Once you have the right chapter selected,
simply click on the Insert button.
| | 00:47 |
You'll be asked to pick a layout for the
imported content.
| | 00:50 |
As you can see, you can choose to add it
as chapter, meaning that the text will be
| | 00:54 |
added as pages in the chapter itself, or
you can add it as a section.
| | 01:00 |
As you can see, you have a variety of
layouts that you can choose from,
| | 01:02 |
including the basic section layout, which
may or may not include graphics in the template.
| | 01:07 |
Or, a simple section text.
Or, you also have the option to add it as
| | 01:12 |
a copyright, dedication, or forward page.
I'm going to go ahead and add this one as a
| | 01:17 |
basic section page, so that it has the
photo in there, as well.
| | 01:19 |
When I click Choose, it's going to create
a brand new section and add the copy into there.
| | 01:26 |
I now have the opportunity to drag a
picture in here or add some other type of
| | 01:29 |
section header.
You'll notice that as many pages as were
| | 01:32 |
needed were automatically created with
the amount of content that I imported.
| | 01:38 |
If I had imported twenty pages of text,
then twenty pages will be added inside of
| | 01:43 |
iBooks Author.
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| Formatting text and paragraph styles| 00:02 |
Utilizing paragraph styles, in iBooks
Author, is an important way to ensure
| | 00:04 |
consistency throughout your document.
You can access the Paragraph Styles
| | 00:09 |
drawer, by tapping the blue paragraph
icon, up at the top left of the window.
| | 00:13 |
You'll notice, in here, that you have a
variety of paragraph styles that are
| | 00:16 |
included with each template.
You can modify these to make them your
| | 00:21 |
own, throw them away and start from
scratch, or of course just use the ones
| | 00:23 |
that are included.
Let's say, for example, that I wanted to
| | 00:28 |
change the look of the first paragraph of
every section.
| | 00:32 |
So I'll go in here and select this first
paragraph, and I'll make a change to it.
| | 00:37 |
Let's take it from 15 point font up to
18, and I'll choose the line spacing from
| | 00:43 |
1.4 down to 1.3.
So, again, the idea here is that I want to
| | 00:47 |
have the first paragraph of every section
be a little bit different than the
| | 00:50 |
paragraphs following it.
If I don't utilize paragraph styles, this
| | 00:55 |
means that I'm going to have to go through
to every single section, select the first
| | 00:58 |
paragraph, and make the same two changes.
And then, if I change my mind later down
| | 01:03 |
the road, and I want to change it again,
I'm going to have to go back through and
| | 01:06 |
change it over and over again.
Which is obviously not ideal.
| | 01:11 |
So instead, what we'll do is take
advantage of the paragraph styles.
| | 01:14 |
Let's go back in here and select this
first paragraph again that I already altered.
| | 01:19 |
If you look in the paragraph styles
drawer you'll see that there is a style
| | 01:22 |
currently selected called body.
However you'll also see that it has a red
| | 01:26 |
triangle next to it.
This red triangle tells me that the
| | 01:29 |
default body style has been changed.
If you click on that there's a few
| | 01:34 |
different things you can do.
You could redefine the style from the
| | 01:37 |
current selection, which would change the
style throughout the entire document.
| | 01:41 |
Or in this case what we want to do is
create a brand new paragraph style from
| | 01:44 |
that selection.
When you select that, you have a chance
| | 01:47 |
to name it whatever you'd like.
I'm going to call this Section Chapter 1 and
| | 01:53 |
tap okay.
Now, as you can see in the paragraph
| | 01:57 |
styles list you have this new style
called Section Chapter 1.
| | 02:01 |
Now let's go to another section, select
that first paragraph and apply that new style.
| | 02:07 |
We'll have to scroll down to find it here
and there it is.
| | 02:16 |
Now as we go back through here you'll see
that the first paragraph of section two
| | 02:19 |
has that new style applied to it...
And the first paragraph of section one
| | 02:23 |
has it as well.
You would now go through your document
| | 02:27 |
and apply that style to the first
paragraph of each section.
| | 02:30 |
But again let's say that we change our
mind.
| | 02:32 |
I'm going to go and select this now.
And this time instead of being regular
| | 02:37 |
font, I'm going to make it italic.
Once again, you'll notice that the
| | 02:41 |
Section Chapter is currently selected,
but has turned red.
| | 02:44 |
So from here, instead of creating a new
paragraph style, I'll simply Redefine The
| | 02:48 |
Style From the Current Selection.
And that means is when I go back to
| | 02:51 |
Section 2, you'll see that that first
paragraph is taken on that italics format
| | 02:55 |
as well.
Utilizing paragraph styles is the only
| | 02:59 |
way to ensure consistency throughout your
entire document.
| | 03:03 |
If you find that you're using a single
style a lot, you can click on the black
| | 03:07 |
triangle next to the name and chose to
assign a Hotkey to it.
| | 03:12 |
This will allow you to easily apply that
style anywhere in your document.
| | 03:18 |
ANother important detail about the
paragraph styles can be found under the Inspector.
| | 03:22 |
If you click on the Text tab and then
click More you'll see an option here
| | 03:25 |
called Following Paragraph Style.
If I select an existing paragraphs tile
| | 03:30 |
bid default the following is set to
Same...
| | 03:35 |
What this means is that when I'm done
typing a paragraph here and hit return,
| | 03:38 |
the following paragraph would
automatically be formatted the same as
| | 03:42 |
the one before it.
However, in a situation like this where
| | 03:46 |
the intention is to have just the first
paragraph styled with this particular
| | 03:49 |
style that we've set, it doesn't make
sense to have the next paragraph
| | 03:52 |
automatically be the same style as the
first.
| | 03:57 |
You may as well have the software
automatically switch styles for you to go
| | 03:59 |
into the basic body style, and that's
what you do here.
| | 04:04 |
So here where it says following paragraph
style instead of being the same, you can
| | 04:07 |
choose from any other style in your list.
In this case, I'll go ahead and select body.
| | 04:13 |
You'll notice as well that by doing that
you have just changed the basic paragraph
| | 04:16 |
style so the red arrow has come up again.
You'll need to click on that and choose
| | 04:20 |
once again to redefine the style from the
current selection.
| | 04:25 |
So now, when you create a new paragraph,
and you choose that section chapter one
| | 04:28 |
style, after you're done typing it and
hit return, the next paragraph will
| | 04:31 |
automatically be formatted with the basic
body style, or whichever style you prefer.
| | 04:37 |
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| Adding images| 00:02 |
There are a variety of ways to add photos
into your book in iBooks Author.
| | 00:07 |
One of the easiest is to access your
images from the Media Tab.
| | 00:11 |
The Media Tab allows you to access all
the pictures inside of your aperture or
| | 00:14 |
iPhoto library.
Here for example I have a variety of
| | 00:17 |
photos for this book in my aperture
library.
| | 00:21 |
If I want to add one in, all I have to do
is Select it and drag it onto the book.
| | 00:25 |
You'll notice here that I'm dragging into
a template that was preexisting on this layout.
| | 00:31 |
This template has already been sized and
cropped to a specific ratio.
| | 00:34 |
And the picture that I've just dropped in
has been scaled to fit within it.
| | 00:38 |
However, that may not suit my needs.
If you tap it you can zoom in on the
| | 00:44 |
image with a slider that shows up at the
bottom.
| | 00:48 |
If you double-click on the image you'll
see that you can actually pan around to
| | 00:50 |
frame that shot however you'd like in
there.
| | 00:55 |
You may not always be adding an image
into a pre-existing template however.
| | 00:58 |
You may want to add an image onto a page
that doesn't have a template, such as
| | 01:01 |
this one here.
Let's go back into the media browser,
| | 01:05 |
select another photo, and simply drag and
drop it onto the page.
| | 01:10 |
When you do this, you'll notice that the
text is automatically float around the
| | 01:13 |
photo and you can reposition it wherever
you like.
| | 01:17 |
Adding images from the Media browser is
only one way of getting your photos into
| | 01:20 |
iBooks' Author.
You may also simply have a folder full of
| | 01:23 |
pictures on the desktop.
Let's go ahead and switch over to the
| | 01:27 |
Finder where I have a folder of photos
called Vietnam photos here.
| | 01:30 |
I'm just going to take a single photo and
drag and drop it onto the page.
| | 01:35 |
Once again I can reposition this however
I like.
| | 01:39 |
You can also drag and drop a series of
photos in at once.
| | 01:42 |
Let's go back to the finder.
Select a few photos together, and drag
| | 01:46 |
and drop those in.
Once they're in place you can resize and
| | 01:50 |
reposition them each individually.
If you're using an application like
| | 01:56 |
Aperture to sort your photos, you may
find that it's easier to sort and find
| | 02:00 |
the photo that you want by using
Aperture's search tools and also its
| | 02:02 |
other organization tools.
So, relying on the tiny little media
| | 02:07 |
browser inside of iBooks Author may not
be the best way for you to find the
| | 02:10 |
photos that you want.
In that case you can actually drag and
| | 02:15 |
drop directly from Aperture into iBooks
Author.
| | 02:19 |
Let's take a look at how that works.
I'm going to go back to iBooks Author and
| | 02:22 |
create another section in here.
With this new section selected I'll go
| | 02:28 |
back into Aperture and select a photo
from here.
| | 02:31 |
I'll go ahead and take this one.
Notice that I can click and drag it.
| | 02:35 |
But at the moment, I can't currently see
my iBooks Author document.
| | 02:39 |
While I'm moused down, meaning I'm
currently dragging this image, I can
| | 02:42 |
Cmd+Tab back over to iBooks Author and
then drop it wherever I like in the document.
| | 02:49 |
This allows me considerable flexibility
when looking for the photo that I want to
| | 02:52 |
add into my document.
Utilizing the tools that you have in
| | 02:57 |
Aperture to locate and adjust your images
means that you can very quickly find,
| | 03:00 |
alter, recolor or do whatever you want to
a photo and then simply drag it into
| | 03:04 |
iBooks author.
You can do the same thing with iPhoto as
| | 03:09 |
well if you're not using Aperture.
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| Making image adjustments and scaling and rotating| 00:02 |
Once you add an image into your project,
there's quite a lot that you can do with it.
| | 00:06 |
You can reposition it, resize it, rotate
it, add borders and more.
| | 00:11 |
To reposition, simply click and drag the
photo to put it wherever you like in the document.
| | 00:15 |
And you'll see by default, that the text
is automatically flowing around it.
| | 00:20 |
To resize the image, click and drag on
the corner to make it as big or as small
| | 00:23 |
as you like.
If you want to rotate the image, hold down
| | 00:29 |
the Command key and again, click on the
corner to rotate it as you like.
| | 00:35 |
You can add frames and borders to the
image, as well.
| | 00:39 |
If you open the Inspector, and click on
the Graphics tab, you'll see that you
| | 00:42 |
have an option called Stroke.
By default it's set to none, however if
| | 00:46 |
we like, we can set it to a line, giving
it a very basic, simple frame.
| | 00:51 |
Let's go ahead and make that a little bit
thicker.
| | 00:54 |
Change the color of that, or even sample
a color from the image, using the
| | 00:59 |
magnifying glass.
But what's a lot more fun, is instead of
| | 01:05 |
a line, adding a picture frame.
The picture frames can be quite
| | 01:09 |
interesting in here, giving you a variety
of options from the basic to the playful
| | 01:13 |
that you can use throughout your project.
Each one of these, once applied, can be
| | 01:23 |
resized, rotated and so on however you
like.
| | 01:29 |
Controlling how the text flows around the
document is quite important, as well.
| | 01:33 |
Let's make this a little bit smaller, and
you'll notice that in this particular
| | 01:36 |
case, having the text float around the
document on both sides may not really be
| | 01:39 |
ideal for the layout.
So let's see what we can do to control that.
| | 01:44 |
By clicking on the Wrap tool under the
Inspector, you can choose how that text
| | 01:48 |
will wrap around the document.
By default, it's going to wrap around
| | 01:52 |
both sides as you're seeing here.
However, we can also force it to wrap
| | 01:56 |
only around the left or only around the
right.
| | 02:00 |
Or you have an option here where we'll
automatically wrap around the side that
| | 02:02 |
has the most room.
So as we move it from the left to the
| | 02:05 |
right of the page, the text will flow
automatically.
| | 02:10 |
Finally, you can also choose to have it
wrap only on the top and bottom.
| | 02:14 |
So no matter how small the image gets, no
text will ever flow around the sides of it.
| | 02:21 |
You can also choose how much space is
going to be around the image.
| | 02:25 |
Down here under text fit, you can
increase or decrease the spacing that
| | 02:28 |
shows up around the image.
So it just depends on how tight or loose
| | 02:33 |
you want the text to flow around your
placed photo.
| | 02:36 |
If you want total control over the
position and rotation of the image, click
| | 02:40 |
on the Metrics tab under the Inspector.
You'll see that you have numeric inputs
| | 02:45 |
to change the size of the image, the
position of it, and even the rotation.
| | 02:52 |
If you want to reset the rotation, it's
probably easiest to go into here, and
| | 02:56 |
simply type in 0.
Finally, you can adjust the look of the
| | 02:59 |
image, meaning the color, brightness, and
so on, without having to go back into an
| | 03:02 |
image editor.
Let's say that I wanted to make this
| | 03:06 |
image a little bit brighter, or maybe a
little bit less saturated.
| | 03:10 |
To do that, I can go to the View menu,
and choose to Show Adjust Image.
| | 03:14 |
This brings up the Image Adjustment tool.
By the way, if you find that you're
| | 03:18 |
accessing this often, you can actually
add it to your toolbar.
| | 03:22 |
Simply right-click on the toolbar and
choose Customize.
| | 03:26 |
Locate the Adjust Image icon and drag
that onto the toolbar.
| | 03:30 |
Now, whenever you want to access it, simply
tap here to open the Adjust Image tool.
| | 03:36 |
Once that's open, I can change the
brightness of the image, the contrast of
| | 03:40 |
it, make it more or less saturated, and
so on.
| | 03:44 |
There's also an Auto Enhance button,
which can work quite well on images that
| | 03:47 |
haven't been adjusted in any other
application.
| | 03:52 |
And at any point, you can simply tap
Reset Image to get it back to its default state.
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| Using image masks| 00:02 |
Once you've added an image into your
iBooks Author document, you may find that
| | 00:05 |
you want to Crop it.
Cropping in iBooks Author is done by
| | 00:08 |
something called Masking.
You can size the image however you like,
| | 00:13 |
and then while it's selected, go to the
Format menu and choose Image > Mask.
| | 00:20 |
By default it creates a simple box around
the image that you can then re-size and
| | 00:24 |
scale on position however you like.
Click and drag in the image to move it around.
| | 00:30 |
You can also zoom into the image with
this slider here.
| | 00:34 |
Once you have it masked out the way you
like, tap outside the image and all
| | 00:37 |
you'll see is the final result.
If you'd like to edit the mask, just
| | 00:42 |
click on the Edit Mask button and you can
get back to editing that and
| | 00:45 |
repositioning the image inside of it.
To remove a mask, simply select the
| | 00:51 |
image, and from the Format menu, choose
Unmask.
| | 00:57 |
You can also choose to mask with any
custom shape.
| | 01:00 |
For example, you have shapes such as
rectangles, ovals, triangles and so on
| | 01:04 |
that you can apply.
I'm going to choose to mask this image with
| | 01:08 |
an oval.
Once that's been added, I can resize that
| | 01:12 |
oval however I like.
Let's go ahead and position it over the
| | 01:15 |
girl, like so.
And then once again tap outside of the
| | 01:20 |
mask to finalize it.
Now I have an oval mask that I've applied
| | 01:23 |
to my image.
You can even create completely customized
| | 01:27 |
mask shapes.
Let's go back to the Format menu and
| | 01:30 |
reset this.
And then from the shapes menu, I'll
| | 01:34 |
choose the Freehand Drawing tool.
Now, I'm going to draw a loose box around
| | 01:40 |
the model here that I want to use as my
basic mask shape.
| | 01:46 |
This shape can be completely customized
later.
| | 01:48 |
So don't worry if you don't get it right
the first time.
| | 01:50 |
Once the shape has been selected, you'll
need to keep that selection.
| | 01:54 |
So Shift click on the image behind it so
that both the image and the shape are selected.
| | 02:00 |
And then from the Format menu, choose
Image > Mask With Selected Shape.
| | 02:05 |
When you do that, the shape that you've
just drawn becomes the mask for that photo.
| | 02:09 |
Just as before, to edit the mask, simply
select the image, tap on Edit Mask and
| | 02:12 |
now you have access to all the different
control points for the shape that you
| | 02:16 |
just drew.
| | 02:18 |
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| Creating an instant alpha mask| 00:00 |
For Masking complex images, iBooks Author
has a feature called Instant Alpha.
| | 00:07 |
Let's say that you wanted to Mask out
this red rose, that was shot against a
| | 00:10 |
white background.
Utilizing the Shapes Custom tool, would
| | 00:14 |
be quite tedious, and chances are you'd
never get it quite right.
| | 00:19 |
However the Instant Alpha tool makes it
incredibly easy.
| | 00:23 |
With the photo selected, go to the Format
menu and choose Image, Instant Alpha.
| | 00:30 |
Now you're able to simply click and drag
over the background, that you want to remove.
| | 00:34 |
You may want to take a couple of passes
at it, just to make sure that you get rid
| | 00:38 |
of all the extraneous data that was
hiding in the background.
| | 00:44 |
Once it's done, simply hit the Return
key, and your image has been masked out.
| | 00:49 |
Notice that the text, is now flowing
directly around the flower.
| | 00:52 |
If you open the Inspector, and go to the
Rack tab, you can choose, just how much
| | 00:57 |
extra space there is around the image.
We want to give it a little bit more
| | 01:01 |
space, we can do that.
Or a little bit less, we can drop it back down.
| | 01:06 |
In fact, if we go all the way down to
zero, you'll see that the text will run
| | 01:09 |
right up to the edge of the flower.
You can now combine this Mask, with
| | 01:14 |
another Shape Mask.
Let's just do something very simple.
| | 01:19 |
And again, from the Format menu, choose
to Mask with a basic shape.
| | 01:24 |
Now, I can rearrange this box, and simply
cut off part of the flower that I don't want.
| | 01:29 |
Let's cut off the bottom of the stem.
Hit Return, and now I have the flower
| | 01:33 |
with the bottom of the stem cut off.
You can position this where ever you like.
| | 01:39 |
And once again, the text is flowing
around beautifully.
| | 01:42 |
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| Wrapping text| 00:02 |
When adding photos or shapes to your
iBooks Author document, you can choose
| | 00:05 |
exactly how the text is going to flow
around that particular shape or image.
| | 00:10 |
Let's start with a simple triangle here.
As you can see, I've added this to the
| | 00:13 |
document and as I drag it around, the
text is automatically flowing around the shape.
| | 00:18 |
However, we have quite a bit of control
over how that actually flows, and in
| | 00:21 |
fact, what happens to the shape itself as
we add and delete text from the page.
| | 00:25 |
If you open the Inspector and click on
the Wrap tab, you'll see that you have
| | 00:29 |
three different sections of options.
Object Placement, Object Wrap, and the
| | 00:35 |
Text Fit.
We'll start with Object Placement.
| | 00:39 |
By default, the placement is set to
floating.
| | 00:41 |
Which means, as it says, that the object
doesn't move with the text.
| | 00:45 |
So no matter where I put this, the text
will always flow around it, and the text
| | 00:48 |
will continue to flow, but the object
will always stay put.
| | 00:53 |
Another option, is something called
Inline.
| | 00:56 |
Inline treats the object as if it was
just another piece of text.
| | 01:00 |
Let's make this quite small, so we can
follow this easily.
| | 01:03 |
And I'm going to drag this to the end of
this paragraph here, just after the word felt.
| | 01:08 |
Now we'll go to the beginning of the
paragraph, and I'll start typing some
| | 01:10 |
more text.
This is more text.
| | 01:14 |
And I'll copy that and paste it out a few
times.
| | 01:18 |
And as you can see, as I expand this
paragraph, the triangle is always kept in
| | 01:21 |
the same place.
The triangle is always right after the
| | 01:25 |
word felt.
Let's reset that.
| | 01:31 |
The last option, is something called
Anchored.
| | 01:34 |
When you choose Anchored, iBooks Author
creates an anchor that you can reposition
| | 01:38 |
wherever you like.
So let's say for example, that I have
| | 01:42 |
this big triangle here, and I want this
to always be here in the bottom-right
| | 01:46 |
corner of the page.
However, I always want it to be on the
| | 01:50 |
page that has the paragraph about the
triangle.
| | 01:54 |
This anchor can be grabbed and
repositioned wherever you like.
| | 01:58 |
Since the triangle belongs with this
chapter called Triangle, I'll go ahead
| | 02:01 |
and drop the anchor right there, along
with the word Triangle.
| | 02:05 |
Now let's go back to adding more text to
the paragraph before it.
| | 02:09 |
I still have some text on my clipboard,
so I'm just going to hit Paste a few times.
| | 02:13 |
And get more texts, and let's actually
select a little bit more of that, and
| | 02:16 |
start adding it bigger.
Now as you can see, the paragraph is
| | 02:20 |
still on this page, and the triangle is
still on this page.
| | 02:23 |
But pretty soon, that paragraph is going
to move to the following page.
| | 02:27 |
And as soon as it does, the triangle
moves with it.
| | 02:30 |
As I scroll over to the next page, you'll
see that the triangle paragraph is now on
| | 02:34 |
this page, and the triangle image has
moved along with it.
| | 02:38 |
The next thing we'll look at, is how the
text wraps around the object.
| | 02:42 |
I'll go back to floating for this, and
make this triangle nice and big.
| | 02:46 |
By default, the text is set to wrap
around both sides of the image or shape
| | 02:49 |
that you've added.
And as you can see here, no matter where
| | 02:52 |
I put the triangle on the page, the text
is wrapping all around it.
| | 02:57 |
We can also choose to have the text wrap
just around one side or another.
| | 03:02 |
We can also set it to wrap around
whichever side has the most space, so as
| | 03:05 |
I move it to the right or to the left,
we'll see that the text automatically
| | 03:08 |
flows wherever there's more space.
You can also set it so that the text
| | 03:14 |
doesn't wrap around the sides at all.
Now, no matter how big or small I make
| | 03:19 |
the triangle, there will never be any
text on the sides of it.
| | 03:23 |
Only before it and after it, or above and
below.
| | 03:27 |
Finally, the last option we have, is how
the text is going to fit around the object.
| | 03:32 |
If I click this first option, you'll see
that the object is treated as a box.
| | 03:36 |
No matter what shape is inside of it, the
text wraps around an invisible box around
| | 03:40 |
that object.
However, for most custom shapes, you
| | 03:43 |
probably want the text to wrap around the
shape itself like so, and that is the
| | 03:46 |
default option.
You can also choose how much extra space,
| | 03:50 |
or padding, is around the object.
So in this case, by default it's set to 12.
| | 03:55 |
But if I make that smaller, you'll see
that the text gets quite close to the
| | 03:58 |
object itself to the point where it butts
up right against to the edge.
| | 04:04 |
If your object has transparency, the
Alpha option will be lit up, as well.
| | 04:07 |
And then you can choose how the text
flows through the transparent parts of
| | 04:10 |
the image.
| | 04:11 |
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| Aligning objects| 00:02 |
When adding shapes and photos to your
document in iBooks Author, chances are
| | 00:05 |
you're going to often want to line things
up perfectly.
| | 00:09 |
Let's go head and grab a couple of photos
here.
| | 00:10 |
And then, I'll go about lining them up
within the document.
| | 00:18 |
I'll resize these both a little bit
smaller.
| | 00:21 |
And let's say that I want to line these
up off of their centers.
| | 00:25 |
As I drag the pictures around, you'll
notice that as I get near the center, a
| | 00:28 |
blue line pops up, and then the images
snap into place.
| | 00:33 |
This makes aligning things very, very
easy.
| | 00:36 |
By default, you're only going to see the
aligns when the image centers line up.
| | 00:41 |
However, if you go into the Preferences
and click on the Rulers tab, you can
| | 00:44 |
choose to have the Alignment Guides come
up at the Object Center and at the Object Edges.
| | 00:52 |
Now, you'll have more lines popping up as
you're moving the objects around.
| | 00:56 |
However, you'll find that it's easier to
get things lined up off of their edge or
| | 00:59 |
for their center.
You can even line up the top of one
| | 01:04 |
object with the center of another.
This doesn't just work with photos.
| | 01:08 |
This works with any object you might have
on your page.
| | 01:12 |
So, here I have a couple of pictures.
Let's add a basic shape.
| | 01:16 |
I'll add a table, and even a text box.
Any one of these things can be aligned
| | 01:22 |
using these simple alignment guides.
Let's say now that I wanted to have all
| | 01:26 |
these objects lined up evenly on their
left sides like so.
| | 01:31 |
Of course, I could drag them in manually
as I just did or what I could do is
| | 01:34 |
select the objects that I want to align.
Go to the Arrange menu and choose Align
| | 01:40 |
Objects of their Left, Center, or Right.
Let's choose Align > Left, and they all
| | 01:46 |
snap into place, like so.
If I choose Align > Right, of course,
| | 01:52 |
they'll all align to the right edge.
As you might expect, you can also choose
| | 01:57 |
to align these off of their top, middle
or bottom.
| | 02:02 |
You can also use shortcuts to distribute
objects.
| | 02:05 |
Let's get rid of one of these and I'll
spread these around the page like so.
| | 02:09 |
Let's make this picture just a little bit
smaller so that I can fit all four of
| | 02:12 |
them side by side on the page.
Let's say that I wanted to have even
| | 02:17 |
spacing between all four of these
objects.
| | 02:20 |
I could guess at it and try and get the
spacing aligned just right.
| | 02:24 |
Or, I can select all four objects and
choose Arrange > Distribute > Horizontally.
| | 02:30 |
And automatically, all the objects will
distribute with an even amount of space
| | 02:33 |
between them.
The objects that are on the outer edges
| | 02:36 |
will stay put, and the objects in between
them will move.
| | 02:40 |
So, let's do it again.
If I take this and move it a little bit
| | 02:44 |
closer and a little bit closer, and then
select all of these and go to Arrange >
| | 02:47 |
Distribute > Horizontally.
Once again, they will all distribute perfectly.
| | 02:54 |
Notice that you can also access the Align
and Distribution menus by simply
| | 02:57 |
right-clicking on an object.
Then you can choose to Align or
| | 03:00 |
Distribute from the drop down menu.
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4. Customizing Your LayoutCreating custom layouts| 00:02 |
The layouts that are included by default
in any of the iBooks Author templates can
| | 00:05 |
be accessed from the Add Pages menu.
You can choose to add a Chapter, and here
| | 00:09 |
are the layouts that you have to choose
from, Section and all of their layouts,
| | 00:13 |
and then Pages and the layouts there.
However, you can completely customize
| | 00:19 |
those layouts.
In fact, you could throw them away and
| | 00:21 |
start completely from scratch.
To access the Layout list, click on this
| | 00:25 |
menu here and choose Show Layouts.
This is going to show the Layouts list,
| | 00:31 |
which as you can see, contains quite a
few layouts that you can choose from.
| | 00:36 |
Let's look at modifying an existing
layout.
| | 00:39 |
I have here a chapter layout which has
been applied down here on chapter one.
| | 00:45 |
If I want to modify the layout, I simply
select whatever it is that I want to
| | 00:48 |
change and start making changes.
So for example, maybe I want to make this
| | 00:52 |
text a little bit bigger.
And maybe I want to take this picture and
| | 00:56 |
crop it a little bit differently.
Great.
| | 01:02 |
Now, that I'm done, you'll notice that
there is an Apply Changes button that has
| | 01:04 |
come up.
If I click Apply Changes, it's going to
| | 01:08 |
take all the changes that I've made to
this template and apply them wherever
| | 01:10 |
that template has been used throughout
the document.
| | 01:15 |
This basic chapter template was used here
on chapter one.
| | 01:19 |
When I click the Apply Changes button,
watch the thumbnail down here change to
| | 01:23 |
match the change that I've made up top.
So as you can see, by applying a change
| | 01:27 |
to the layout template, I've applied that
change throughout the entire document.
| | 01:33 |
If you don't want to make a change to the
existing layout, you can duplicate the
| | 01:36 |
page before you change it, and then have
multiple versions of it.
| | 01:40 |
Let's go ahead and Undo a couple of times
here and get back to our basic default template.
| | 01:48 |
I'll right-click on the Chapter menu and
choose to duplicate it.
| | 01:52 |
Now I have a copy.
For this copy let's make some changes to
| | 01:55 |
the image that's here.
I'm going to edit the Mask and make this a
| | 01:59 |
little bit smaller.
In fact, what I really want to do is have
| | 02:03 |
two photos in this chapter opening.
I'll hold down the Option key and drag
| | 02:08 |
this photo, so that I've just made a copy
of it.
| | 02:10 |
Let's put it all the way up at the top
there like so.
| | 02:13 |
And I'll go ahead and leave a blank space
in the middle.
| | 02:16 |
I can rename this whatever I like.
Let's call it Chapter Two Photos.
| | 02:21 |
And now I have a new template that I can
use.
| | 02:24 |
Notice that we did not get the Apply
Changes button here, because this
| | 02:27 |
template has not yet been used anywhere
in the document.
| | 02:30 |
Now when I go down to an existing chapter
page, I can click on the triangle next to
| | 02:34 |
it and choose from any of the layouts,
including the new one that I've just created.
| | 02:39 |
This makes it incredibly easy to create
completely customized layouts within
| | 02:42 |
iBooks Author, and apply the changes
throughout multiple pages throughout the
| | 02:46 |
document at once.
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| Working with master objects| 00:00 |
When editing a Master Layout, in iBooks
Author.
| | 00:04 |
Any object that you add to a layout.
Is a Master Object.
| | 00:07 |
That Master Object can be editable, or
not.
| | 00:10 |
That's entirely up to you.
We'll start by adding a editable object
| | 00:13 |
in here.
As a photograph, that is meant to be
| | 00:15 |
replaced on every page that you use it.
To start, I'm going to duplicate one of
| | 00:19 |
these existing layouts.
We're going to make a 2 column layout with
| | 00:23 |
photo, so I'll just call that With Photo.
On this layout, I'll go ahead and add in
| | 00:27 |
a picture that will act as a placeholder.
It doesn't matter what you add.
| | 00:31 |
Go ahead and add something that you're
going to want to look at every time you're
| | 00:35 |
editing your page.
Once it's been added, you can position
| | 00:38 |
it, scale it, rotate it, and do whatever
you'd like to it.
| | 00:42 |
You can even go into the Inspector, and
under the Graphics layout change things
| | 00:46 |
like the stroke or add a picture frame.
We'll go ahead and add something playful
| | 00:51 |
like this one here.
Now that the object has been added to the
| | 00:55 |
page, there are 2 things that I need to
do to ensure that once I have added it
| | 00:58 |
into my book, I can drag in a new photo
to replace this one.
| | 01:03 |
The first one is under the Format menu,
under Advanced, and that is to define
| | 01:07 |
this object as a media place holder.
When you select that, you can now drag
| | 01:13 |
any other photo or image into this place
holder and it will be replaced.
| | 01:18 |
For example, if I go to the media browser
and grab another photo here.
| | 01:23 |
I simply drag and drop that in.
You'll see that the frame and the
| | 01:26 |
formatting is maintained, but the photo
has been replaced.
| | 01:30 |
I'll just undo that.
Before I can apply this to my existing
| | 01:34 |
layouts, there's one more change that I
have to do.
| | 01:37 |
Even though I have turned this into a
master object, this is only a master
| | 01:40 |
object within the Layout editor.
What I now need to do is go back into the
| | 01:45 |
inspector, select Layouts, and under
layout, you have an option called Layout Object.
| | 01:50 |
The option is editable on pages using
this layout.
| | 01:53 |
This is an important check box to tick.
What this means is that now once I apply
| | 01:57 |
this within the book, I'll be able to
actually edit this object by dragging
| | 02:00 |
another photo into it, or even
re-positioning it.
| | 02:05 |
Let's try it out.
Now that I've add this photo, to this new
| | 02:08 |
layout, I'll go ahead and apply that
layout, to a page in my document.
| | 02:13 |
There's the layout I just created,
there's the photo.
| | 02:17 |
And now, I can open my Media browser, and
drag any other photo into it, and it is replaced.
| | 02:22 |
And you notice that the photo that I
started with was square format.
| | 02:26 |
As is the photo that I just dragged in.
What happens if I drag something in that
| | 02:29 |
isn't square?
Let's try that.
| | 02:34 |
When I drag that in, you'll notice that
the aspect ratio has changed.
| | 02:37 |
The framing has changed to match the
photo that was dragged in.
| | 02:40 |
And that's fine if that's the way you
want it to work.
| | 02:42 |
But maybe you don't want that.
Maybe what you want is to maintain that
| | 02:45 |
square aspect ratio that you started
with.
| | 02:47 |
Let's undo that.
Now I'm going to go back into the Template
| | 02:51 |
Editor, and make another change to the
template itself.
| | 02:56 |
What I need to do to ensure that the
shape doesn't change is add a mask to
| | 02:58 |
this image.
I don't actually want to mask this
| | 03:02 |
particular photo, but the mask will
define the fixed edges of any photo that
| | 03:04 |
is dragged into it.
To do that, go to the Format menu and
| | 03:09 |
choose Image, Mask.
It gets a simple square by default but as
| | 03:14 |
I said, I don't actually want this image
to be cropped at all.
| | 03:17 |
So I'm going to make the mask the same size
as is the original image.
| | 03:20 |
I'll apply the changes.
And now when I go back into this template
| | 03:25 |
and I drag in a photo from the media
browser that isn't square, the image will
| | 03:28 |
automatically be cropped to fit into that
space.
| | 03:33 |
Once I've added it in there, I can just
double tap on it to edit the photo with
| | 03:36 |
NetCrop if I want to.
Sometimes you'll want to add objects that
| | 03:41 |
are not meant to be edited.
For example a company logo or perhaps a
| | 03:45 |
water mark that needs to be on every
document.
| | 03:47 |
To do that all you need to do is not
enable the option to make it editable.
| | 03:53 |
Let's just say for example that this
circle is a watermark that I want on
| | 03:56 |
every page.
Under the Inspector and again under
| | 04:00 |
Layout, by not selecting editable object.
What that means is once it's applied,
| | 04:06 |
that object will be on every page, but I
can't change it.
| | 04:11 |
If I do want to change that, I simply have
to go back into the Layout Editor.
| | 04:15 |
Once here, I can make any change that I
want and apply that, and it will be
| | 04:20 |
applied on every page where that layout
is being used.
| | 04:26 |
There are some objects you might add into
a layout where you don't have to worry
| | 04:29 |
about enabling the option to ensure that
it is editable.
| | 04:33 |
For example, let's go to another one
here, the 3 column.
| | 04:35 |
And I'll add a widget.
Any widget that you add will
| | 04:38 |
automatically be marked as editable.
And in fact, can't be turned off.
| | 04:42 |
Because by definition, each one of these
is a container for other objects.
| | 04:46 |
For example, a photo gallery.
If I add a photo gallery to this layout,
| | 04:49 |
and I go to the Layout Editor, you'll
notice that editable on pages is turned
| | 04:53 |
on, but I can't actually turn it off.
Without adding photos into the gallery,
| | 04:58 |
it wouldn't make much sense to have it.
So you simply can't disable it here.
| | 05:03 |
You can have any type of object that you
like into a master layout, text boxes,
| | 05:06 |
shapes, tables, and charts.
And of course, the wages as you've seen here.
| | 05:11 |
You can create as many different layouts
as you like.
| | 05:13 |
By, simply right-clicking on one,
duplicating it, and making the change as
| | 05:16 |
you like.
This is how you customize the look of
| | 05:19 |
your book.
So it looks completely unique.
| | 05:21 |
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| Understanding orientation| 00:00 |
iBooks Create and iBooks Author are
designed primarily to be viewed in a
| | 00:04 |
landscape format.
As you can see, the layouts are all
| | 00:08 |
designed to look best when the iPad is
held horizontally.
| | 00:11 |
However, your viewer may decide to rotate
their iPad, and it's important to
| | 00:14 |
understand what they'll see when they do.
In the toolbar in iBooks Author, you can
| | 00:18 |
choose to Preview the orientation as
Landscape or Portrait.
| | 00:23 |
When you switch to portrait, you'll see
that the document is switched primarily
| | 00:26 |
to text, with a small column on the left
for any photos that you may have added.
| | 00:32 |
This is primarily not editable.
You can't really change much in the
| | 00:35 |
layout of the vertical format.
Let's take a look at a more complete
| | 00:40 |
document and you can see what I mean.
Here, we have the book on Vietnam.
| | 00:44 |
And as you can see, this particular
section is full of photos, background
| | 00:47 |
images, slideshows, and more.
However, when I choose to view this in
| | 00:50 |
the portrait orientation, the entire
document is reduced to plain text against
| | 00:53 |
a white background.
With a couple of icons representing the
| | 00:57 |
slideshows that have been embedded.
I can move these slide shows around, make
| | 01:01 |
some other small changes to the document,
but there really isn't much that I can do.
| | 01:06 |
It is primarily meant to be viewed while
in the Landscape Mode.
| | 01:10 |
In fact, if you like, you can disable the
option to rotate the book at all.
| | 01:14 |
By going into the Inspector and choosing
the Document Options, there is a check
| | 01:18 |
box that's named Disable Portrait
Orientation.
| | 01:21 |
When you enable that option, the viewer
will simply not be able to view your book
| | 01:24 |
in a Portrait Mode.
If your book is all about images, chances
| | 01:29 |
are that's what you're going to want.
However, if you're making a traditional
| | 01:33 |
textbook, it can be quite nice to have
the ability to go into a portrait orientation.
| | 01:37 |
And just see the main meat of the
document, just the text.
| | 01:40 |
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|
5. Advanced TechniquesAdding linked and unlinked text boxes| 00:02 |
Text boxes in iBooks Author,
automatically link from one to the other.
| | 00:06 |
To select the Text box, click and drag
over the area where the box lives, and
| | 00:09 |
you'll see a blue line, indicating the
connection between boxes.
| | 00:14 |
As you continue to expand your document,
and you add more and more text, new pages
| | 00:17 |
will automatically be added, and the text
boxes will automatically be linked.
| | 00:22 |
However, if you like, you can take
control over this linking as well.
| | 00:26 |
For example, if I was to simply re-size
this box here, you'll see that the link
| | 00:30 |
between them is maintained.
And I'm now free to add other elements
| | 00:34 |
into the space here.
But if I wanted to, I could also change
| | 00:38 |
the linking entirely.
To alter the linking, click on one of the
| | 00:42 |
blue boxes that indicates a link point.
And you'll see that there is a plus mark
| | 00:47 |
as you hover over an empty space or a
minus mark as you hover over the box itself.
| | 00:53 |
If I tap the minus it's going to delete
the connection between these two boxes.
| | 00:57 |
This box is now empty.
If I want to add a new connection, once
| | 01:01 |
again select the box, click on the blue
arrow, you'll see that we now have a plus
| | 01:05 |
symbol over the arrow and we can now
click and drag a new text box wherever we like.
| | 01:12 |
You can continue this process as many
times as you want to.
| | 01:15 |
And notice, however, that you can not
link existing text boxes.
| | 01:18 |
So for example, if I wanted to link this
box to this one here when I click on the
| | 01:22 |
blue arrow, and hover the mouse over this
box you'll notice that it doesn't
| | 01:25 |
actually link.
It'll only allow me to create a new one.
| | 01:30 |
You can create additional text boxes that
aren't linked to anything by clicking on
| | 01:33 |
the text box icon in the tool bar.
When you click that, you now have a free
| | 01:38 |
floating, independent text box that has
no relation to any other text boxes on
| | 01:41 |
the page.
| | 01:42 |
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| Working with shapes| 00:00 |
To add a shape in iBooks Author, simply
click on the Shapes icon in the toolbar,
| | 00:03 |
and choose from one of the many shapes
that are offered for you to work with.
| | 00:09 |
As you can see, you can choose from lines
or arrows, rectangles and rounded
| | 00:12 |
rectangles, circles, triangles, and a
whole variety of other shapes.
| | 00:17 |
You can even create a custom shape, which
will give you a Pen tool, so you can draw
| | 00:19 |
any shape that you like.
I'll just add a simple rounded rectangle
| | 00:24 |
to this document.
Once it's added, you can reposition it,
| | 00:27 |
you can rotate it by holding down the Cmd
key.
| | 00:30 |
You can change the curve of the corners
by grabbing the blue dot at the corner of
| | 00:33 |
the shape.
If you open the Inspector, you have
| | 00:38 |
access to a variety of Color Controls.
Under the Graphics tab, you can choose to
| | 00:42 |
fill it with a single color or a
gradient, even advanced gradients, where
| | 00:45 |
you can add multiple points to the
gradient.
| | 00:50 |
You can also choose to include an image,
or a tinted image inside of that shape.
| | 00:55 |
Under the Stroke option, you can choose
between No Stroke, Align, or Picture Frame.
| | 01:01 |
Under the Line options, you can make the
line thicker, change the coloring, you
| | 01:05 |
can even go from solid to dashed or a
more natural hand drawn looking line.
| | 01:11 |
If you want to add a Shadow to the shape,
simply click on Shadow.
| | 01:14 |
You can change the Offset of that, the
angle of the Shadow, the amount of Blur
| | 01:17 |
and the Opacity as well.
Finally, you also have the option to
| | 01:22 |
change the Opacity of the entire object.
If you want, you can add text into the
| | 01:26 |
shape as well.
Simply double tap on the shape, it will
| | 01:29 |
temporarily straighten, and then you can
add in your text.
| | 01:33 |
We'll just say something like, this is
interesting text.
| | 01:36 |
Once that's added, you can select it, and
access all of your standard Font tools.
| | 01:42 |
Access your Fonts, your Sizing, Bold
Italics and so on.
| | 01:46 |
When your done editing your text, click
outside of the box and it will
| | 01:48 |
automatically rotate back to its set
position.
| | 01:51 |
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| Inserting tables and charts| 00:02 |
You can create tables and charts inside
of iBooks Author.
| | 00:06 |
To create a new table, simply click on
the Table icon in the toolbar, which will
| | 00:09 |
create a brand new table that you can
start to edit.
| | 00:13 |
As you can see, you can reposition and
resize that table, just like any other
| | 00:16 |
object in iBooks Author.
To adjust the Table, from the Inspector,
| | 00:20 |
select the Tables tab, and under the
Basic Table Setup, you'll see that you
| | 00:24 |
can do things like Add Rows and Columns
to it.
| | 00:29 |
You can change the headers and footers,
you have a column and a row editor, and
| | 00:33 |
from here, you can control the width and
height of the individual columns and rows.
| | 00:40 |
You also have control over the cell
borders, and also their fill colors.
| | 00:44 |
If you go to the Format tab, you'll see
that you can change the cell format, from
| | 00:48 |
automatic to basic numbers, currency,
percentage, date and time, and more.
| | 00:54 |
So whatever the content is that you're
adding, chances are you can find the
| | 00:56 |
format here.
Let's take a look at a table that's
| | 00:59 |
already been filled in.
Here, I have a table that has basic plot
| | 01:04 |
of data, from February through November,
of the number of tourists to visit Vietnam.
| | 01:10 |
Editing Basic Table data in iBooks Author
is easy enough, you can simply select the
| | 01:14 |
cell, and change the content in it.
You can even add basic formulas in here.
| | 01:19 |
For example, here at the bottom, I have a
footer cell that has no data in it.
| | 01:23 |
And while there is no advanced formula
editor inside of iBooks Author, I can
| | 01:26 |
simply start to type with an equals sign
which will open up the basic formula editor.
| | 01:30 |
And then type something like, equals the
sum of tourist, and it will then give me
| | 01:35 |
the sum of the tourism column.
However, if you want to get more advanced
| | 01:40 |
with your tables, you may want to consider
moving over to Apple's Numbers.
| | 01:44 |
I'm going to switch over to Numbers,
where I have the similar data already
| | 01:47 |
applied in a new table here.
But once in the Numbers, I have a lot
| | 01:50 |
more options of what I can do with this
data.
| | 01:53 |
To start, it's easier to change the
overall look of the table.
| | 01:56 |
Here, I have a basic Styles editor, and I
can go through the styles that are built
| | 01:59 |
into Numbers, or of course, create my
own.
| | 02:02 |
I also have access to a complete formula
list and advanced Formula Editor, and I
| | 02:05 |
even have access to my very simple drag
and drop calculations down here.
| | 02:10 |
So for example, let's say I take this
data, and add another footer row to it,
| | 02:14 |
and I want to add a row of averages.
Here, to calculate the average from
| | 02:22 |
February down to November, I can simply
select the range over here on the left,
| | 02:25 |
grab the Average widget, and just drag
and drop it in, and that formula is
| | 02:29 |
automatically added for me.
Once I've done my more advanced editing
| | 02:35 |
in Numbers, I can simply select the
Table, go to the Edit menu, Copy, switch
| | 02:40 |
back over to iBooks Author, and paste
this into place.
| | 02:47 |
It's not pasting just a graphic.
It's actually pasting real Raw data.
| | 02:52 |
So I can go in here and continue to edit
this data.
| | 02:54 |
For example, if I update the numbers for
November.
| | 02:58 |
You'll see that the total and the
averages is also calculated out.
| | 03:02 |
You can do the same things with charts.
We'll just delete that and create a new
| | 03:06 |
chart in here.
As you can see, we can choose from bar
| | 03:09 |
charts, line charts, pie charts, scatter,
and more.
| | 03:14 |
And many of these charts can be
represented in 2D or in 3D.
| | 03:18 |
To create a new chart, all you have to do
is select the chart that you want, and
| | 03:21 |
then edit the data in the Data Editor.
Again, let's go to another page that
| | 03:27 |
already has some of this data added for
me.
| | 03:31 |
Here, I have the same data we were
looking at earlier, number of tourists to
| | 03:34 |
visit Vietnam over a spread of several
months.
| | 03:37 |
If I select this chart, we can see the
numbers up here in the chart Data Editor.
| | 03:46 |
Any numbers that I change in here will of
course be reflected in the chart.
| | 03:49 |
Once I've created the chart, I can change
the format of it by going to the
| | 03:52 |
Inspector, and under chart, choosing a
different layout.
| | 03:56 |
For example, let's switch this to a
vertical bar chart, or a horizontal bar
| | 04:01 |
chart, back to a line chart or even to a
pie graph.
| | 04:07 |
Remember, many of these can be
represented in 3D as well.
| | 04:11 |
Let's switch this over to a 3D pie chart.
Move that over a little bit.
| | 04:16 |
I can choose to rotate the pie chart
however I like.
| | 04:19 |
And if I want to call attention to a
particular piece of data, I can simply
| | 04:22 |
grab that slice of the pie and drag it
out.
| | 04:26 |
Once again, you can do even more advanced
editing inside of Apple's Numbers and
| | 04:29 |
then simply copy and paste your data into
iBooks Author.
| | 04:33 |
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| Creating galleries| 00:01 |
To add a gallery of photos,
illustrations, or any other type of
| | 00:05 |
graphics in iBooks Author, select the
Gallery option from the Widgets menu.
| | 00:10 |
This creates a gallery that you can then
format and edit however you like.
| | 00:14 |
As you can see, you can resize that to be
as small or as big as you want on your page.
| | 00:19 |
It'll automatically push the text just
like any other object you add in to your book.
| | 00:24 |
If you want to create a gallery that takes
up the full screen, I suggest that you
| | 00:27 |
add that to a blank page.
Then you can easily resize it to take up
| | 00:32 |
the entire space on the page as you like.
Once you've create your gallery, you need
| | 00:39 |
to add content to it.
To do that, you can go to the Media menu,
| | 00:43 |
select a range of photos or rather
graphics, and then simply drag and drop
| | 00:46 |
them in.
You have considerable control over the
| | 00:52 |
look and feel of the gallery, under the
Inspector and then the Widget menu.
| | 00:56 |
We'll start with Layout.
Under Layout, you have a few different
| | 00:59 |
options of where the Captions and Titles
are going to live.
| | 01:03 |
You can choose to have both sitting at
the top of the picture, so here, we see
| | 01:06 |
the Title and the Caption.
You can choose to split it along the top
| | 01:10 |
and the bottom or to have both sitting at
the bottom.
| | 01:14 |
I usually like to have mine split across
the top and the bottom.
| | 01:19 |
You can choose to have the Title showing
or hidden, and the same thing with the Caption.
| | 01:23 |
Let's take a closer look at the Title.
First of all, you can choose a label for that.
| | 01:29 |
What are we looking at here?
Is it a gallery of diagrams, of figures,
| | 01:31 |
a photo gallery, illustrations, or what
is it?
| | 01:35 |
I'll choose Gallery for this.
However, if none of these options fit,
| | 01:39 |
you can also edit the Label styles.
You can add your own labels, change the
| | 01:43 |
label format, whether it's numeric or
alphabetical, and you can even change the
| | 01:47 |
Character style.
So you can have the text look however you
| | 01:51 |
like, when you're sitting on top of your
Gallery.
| | 01:54 |
Under Captions, you have the choice of
making the same caption for every single
| | 01:59 |
photo or having individual captions for
each image.
| | 02:05 |
You can choose to have a slight faded
gray background behind the image box, if
| | 02:08 |
you like as well.
And you can increase or decrease the
| | 02:12 |
margin between the outer edge of that box
and the gallery.
| | 02:16 |
The description of the gallery here will
automatically update when you change the
| | 02:19 |
name of your gallery up top.
So, in this case, I'll just call this Market.
| | 02:24 |
And as you can see that has automatically
updated in the description here.
| | 02:30 |
Another element of control that you have
over your gallery is the Corners.
| | 02:34 |
You can choose to have rounded corners or
sharp corners for your gallery.
| | 02:38 |
Just depends on how you want it to look.
There's more control that you have under
| | 02:42 |
the Inspector, under the Interaction tab.
You can use to Show Image Thumbnails
| | 02:47 |
underneath your Gallery, which will allow
your users to easily switch between the
| | 02:50 |
pictures that they want to view or you can
disable that, which means they'll have to
| | 02:53 |
swipe through each one to see them all.
The users will see a row of dots
| | 03:00 |
representing how many photos are in that
gallery.
| | 03:04 |
If you want to rearrange the pictures, you
can do that here as well.
| | 03:06 |
Simply grab one and rearrange it so it
rearranges int the gallery.
| | 03:12 |
You can also Delete or Add photos from
here.
| | 03:15 |
Let's take a look at a gallery that's a
bit more completed.
| | 03:19 |
In this document, you'll see that I have
a vertically-shaped gallery here, with
| | 03:23 |
quite large rounded corners next to some
text.
| | 03:27 |
If we look at the Layout, you'll see in
this example, I've chosen to hide the
| | 03:30 |
title, but I have applied a caption and
I've chosen to have individual captions
| | 03:33 |
per image.
So, as I switch through the images here
| | 03:37 |
using these arrows, I can edit each
caption individually.
| | 03:42 |
By the way, these arrows are only for
your visual use while you're editing the slideshow.
| | 03:47 |
These arrows will not show up on the
iBook.
| | 03:50 |
Let's take a look at another gallery
that's even larger.
| | 03:55 |
This gallery here takes up almost the
entire screen.
| | 03:58 |
As you can see, I have a row of icons
down at the bottom showing thumbnails for
| | 04:01 |
each one of the photos.
In fact, there's so many photos in this
| | 04:05 |
gallery, there's also a dot underneath
it, showing me that there's a second
| | 04:07 |
collection of photos as well.
The rounded corners are smaller, and
| | 04:12 |
here, I've chosen to show the title.
Now, there's another interesting
| | 04:15 |
difference between the two different
types of galleries.
| | 04:17 |
In just a few moments, we'll take a look
at this gallery in the iBook.
| | 04:23 |
This particular gallery, I'll be able to
view as it is, as a small window here.
| | 04:28 |
But by tapping it, I'll be able to open
it full screen.
| | 04:31 |
However, this larger gallery, which is
already taking up most of the screen, I
| | 04:34 |
will not be able to open full screen.
This is not something that you can set
| | 04:39 |
inside of iBooks Author.
iBooks Author automatically determines
| | 04:42 |
whether you can do that or not, based off
the size of the gallery itself.
| | 04:46 |
If you want to be able to go full screen,
you need to make the gallery a little bit smaller.
| | 04:51 |
Let's take a look at these two galleries
over on the iPad.
| | 04:54 |
Here, we're looking at the Table of
Contents for the Introduction of this book.
| | 04:57 |
And down here on page 2, we can see the
slideshow that we were just looking at.
| | 05:02 |
Now that I'm looking at this page, I can
swipe through the photos by simply
| | 05:05 |
dragging across them with my finger.
If I want to view them larger, I can tap on
| | 05:10 |
the image once, and it will open full
screen.
| | 05:14 |
You may have noticed now that I'm seeing
more of the picture, since it no longer
| | 05:18 |
has any crop on it.
Once you're done viewing, tap the screen
| | 05:21 |
to bring up the Overlay, and then tap the
X to exit out of there.
| | 05:26 |
Let's go back to the Table of Contents
and look for the other chapter.
| | 05:31 |
Here's the other slideshow that I wanted
to see.
| | 05:35 |
As you can see in here, I can swipe
through these individual images just as
| | 05:38 |
before, however, at the bottom I also
have the ability to immediately jump to
| | 05:42 |
whichever photo I want to see.
If I tap and drag across that row of
| | 05:47 |
photos, I'll be able to go to the next
page of photos as well.
| | 05:52 |
As I said before, if I tap on the screen
here, it does not switch into a full
| | 05:55 |
screen view.
Because the images were already so large,
| | 05:58 |
they won't get any bigger on the screen
for me.
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| Adding video and audio| 00:02 |
You can include video or audio files in
your iBook by simply going to the Widgets
| | 00:06 |
menu and choosing Media.
By adding a media container, you can now
| | 00:11 |
drag in movie files as .M4V format, which
is an H264 format, or audio files as
| | 00:16 |
.M4A, which is AAC.
To add a video file, you can simply drag
| | 00:22 |
and drop it in from the finder.
Here I have a short M4V file that I'll
| | 00:28 |
drag and drop into my book.
Once it's in here, you can rearrange it
| | 00:33 |
on your page wherever you like, and you
can resize it like so.
| | 00:39 |
Let's just move this off to a blank page
to make it a little bit easier to see.
| | 00:43 |
When viewing your movie, you can choose
to change the title and the caption for it.
| | 00:49 |
And if you go to the Widget layout, you
can choose whether you want those
| | 00:53 |
captions and titles on the top, top and
bottom, or just on the bottom.
| | 01:00 |
You can also choose to hide a specific
element.
| | 01:02 |
For example, I can hide the title and I
can hide the caption.
| | 01:09 |
The title has a label by default of
movie, but you can change that to
| | 01:11 |
whatever you like.
You can also add a basic background color
| | 01:16 |
behind the movie, if you like.
Under the Interaction tab, you can change
| | 01:20 |
the poster frame for this movie, so that
your reader will see exactly which frame
| | 01:23 |
you want before they tap play.
You can choose whether the movie will
| | 01:29 |
repeat or not after it's done playing,
and you can preview the movie here by
| | 01:32 |
simply tapping the play, (audio playing) pause,
and forward and back buttons.
| | 01:38 |
You also have the choice to make your
movie full-screen only.
| | 01:41 |
If you enable that, the view in your
document will change to a thumbnail.
| | 01:44 |
Which you can once again, resize and
reposition however you like.
| | 01:48 |
If you want to edit the media that the
viewer will see, tap the Edit Media button.
| | 01:53 |
Change for example, the poster frame and
whether it's going to loop or not and
| | 01:56 |
then click on Done, and you'll go back to
the thumbnail view.
| | 02:01 |
What this means is, when the viewer is
reading the book and they want to watch
| | 02:04 |
this movie, when they tap play, it will
open to full-screen in the iBook, and
| | 02:06 |
that's the only way they'll be able to
see it.
| | 02:10 |
When they're done watching it, it will go
back to the regular view.
| | 02:14 |
Let's take a look at this movie on a more
complete version of this book.
| | 02:19 |
Here you can see the movie's been added
to this page.
| | 02:22 |
There's text and other graphics around
it.
| | 02:24 |
For this example, I've chosen not to make
it full-screen only, meaning the viewer
| | 02:28 |
will be able to watch the movie embedded
in the page.
| | 02:32 |
However, they will also be able to go
full-screen if they want to.
| | 02:36 |
Let's have a look at this page on the
iPad.
| | 02:39 |
Now we're looking at this iBook on the
iPad.
| | 02:42 |
The video that I'm looking for is on page
12 under chapter one.
| | 02:47 |
As you can see, the viewer sees the
poster frame that I chose, but the play
| | 02:50 |
icon on top of it.
When you tap play, you'll be able to
| | 02:53 |
watch the movie directly in the book.
If you want to view it full-screen,
| | 02:57 |
simply tap on the two arrows, which'll
take you into full-screen view.
| | 03:01 |
(audio playing) They can pinch out to bring that
back down, or even pinch back in to see
| | 03:09 |
it full-screen again.
| | 03:13 |
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| Inserting auto-updating text| 00:02 |
Your book written in iBooks Author can
contain a variety of auto updating texts.
| | 00:06 |
Let's say, for example, that I wanted to
write an introduction to this section
| | 00:10 |
that said something like, Welcome to
Section one.
| | 00:15 |
The problem here is if I now add another
section.
| | 00:18 |
Let's see, I go in here and add a new
section here that is automatically made
| | 00:22 |
as Section 2.
And then I take what used to be Section 1
| | 00:26 |
and rearrange it so it now becomes
Section 2 as we can see here.
| | 00:31 |
My introductory paragraph still says
Welcome to Section 1.
| | 00:35 |
So instead of typing this in manually,
what I need to do is replace this with
| | 00:38 |
automated text.
To do that, go to the Insert menu and
| | 00:42 |
choose Section number.
It now automatically say welcome to
| | 00:47 |
section 2 and if I take that section we
rearrange it.
| | 00:50 |
So become section 1, you'll notice that
the text is automatically updated.
| | 00:56 |
The same goes for the section title.
I'll go in here and I'll change this
| | 01:00 |
opening paragraph to say Welcome to
Section 1, Called, and then under Insert,
| | 01:05 |
choose Section Title.
It now says call untitled.
| | 01:11 |
of course if I go up here and change the
title of it to something cool, we'll see
| | 01:15 |
that the title is updated in the document
itself.
| | 01:21 |
You can do the same thing with Page
Numbers.
| | 01:24 |
You can insert an automatic Page Number
or page count.
| | 01:28 |
It's pretty unlikely that you would add
that Page Number within the context of
| | 01:31 |
the document itself.
However, we're more likely to add it, is
| | 01:34 |
in the layout.
Let's look for the layout we're currently
| | 01:38 |
working with.
Here it is called section.
| | 01:42 |
Under here, you can see that we currently
have a page number.
| | 01:44 |
I'm going to change this.
Instead of just saying the number I'm
| | 01:49 |
going to say, page 1 of, and then under
the insert menu, add the page count.
| | 01:57 |
In the template, it says page 1 of 1.
I'll apply those changes.
| | 02:01 |
And now, I go back to the document.
And here, we can say that it
| | 02:05 |
automatically says Page 2 of 3.
If I go to the next section, it now says
| | 02:10 |
Page 3 of 3.
If I go to the previous section and add
| | 02:14 |
some blank pages onto here, and then
scroll down, this final page here now
| | 02:19 |
says Page 5 of 5.
And of course, the beginning of that
| | 02:25 |
section says page 205.
Notice that these pages, currently just
| | 02:29 |
have the Page Number, that's because
these templates have not yet been updated.
| | 02:34 |
If you want to update those as well, go
back to the layout, locate the page that
| | 02:37 |
you're currently using.
Select it, and edit the format here.
| | 02:43 |
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| Creating reviews| 00:02 |
Adding a quiz or a review to your iBook
can be a great way to ensure that your
| | 00:05 |
readers are following along.
As you can see just like any other
| | 00:10 |
graphic element.
You can resize and reposition the quiz
| | 00:13 |
within your document however you like.
Under the Inspector and Widget, you can
| | 00:18 |
choose to alter the layout.
You can turn on or turn off the title.
| | 00:22 |
And you can also turn on or turn off the
background.
| | 00:26 |
The Interaction tab, is where you can add
your questions.
| | 00:30 |
There are a variety of different types of
questions, that you can add.
| | 00:33 |
The default, is a simple multiple choice.
However, you can also add multiple choice
| | 00:38 |
with pictures.
The picture can be on the side or on the
| | 00:41 |
top of the questions.
You can add a multiple choice that is
| | 00:46 |
just pictures.
You can have a drag label to target,
| | 00:51 |
where you'll have a photo in here, and
labels pointing at elements of the photo.
| | 00:55 |
And your readers have to drag the
appropriate text label onto the right spot.
| | 01:01 |
And you can do the same thing with
photos.
| | 01:03 |
Where they have to drag a photo on top of
the other picture.
| | 01:08 |
Each one of these questions can have as
many answers as you want between 2 and 6.
| | 01:15 |
To assign a correct answer, simply tap
the green check box next to the correct
| | 01:18 |
answer in your quiz.
Let's take a look at a quiz in your more
| | 01:22 |
completed document.
Here I have a variety of questions about
| | 01:29 |
the Vietnamese wet markets.
The first question is simply text.
| | 01:34 |
Why are the wet markets called wet
markets?
| | 01:36 |
And as you can see, a variety of four
answers have been added into here.
| | 01:40 |
And the correct answer, has a green check
box next to it.
| | 01:43 |
Let's go to the next question.
Which is a single photo, with three
| | 01:47 |
multiple choice answers underneath it.
The next, is a multiple choice photo option.
| | 01:54 |
The question being, which of these items
is not fruit or vegetable.
| | 01:58 |
So the appropriate answer being here.
And the last one I have, is one where
| | 02:02 |
the user has to drag text labels, onto
the photo, to see if they can correctly
| | 02:05 |
identify the items in the picture.
Let's take a look at this review quiz, on
| | 02:13 |
the iPad.
We're now looking at the iBook, in the iPad.
| | 02:17 |
You can see the quiz on page 10.
I'll go ahead and select that to load it up.
| | 02:23 |
Let's go ahead and take the quiz.
Question 1 of 4.
| | 02:26 |
Why are the wet markets called wet
markets?
| | 02:29 |
Is it option A, the vendors are usually
wet because it's so hot out?
| | 02:32 |
B, the floor is usually wet from constant
washing.
| | 02:36 |
C, someone is spraying water on the
visitors to keep them cool.
| | 02:40 |
Or is it D, there are floating markets on
rivers or canals?
| | 02:45 |
I'll choose option D, and then tap Check
Answer.
| | 02:48 |
As you can see, that is not the correct
answer.
| | 02:52 |
I can try again, check the answer again,
and see if I got it right.
| | 02:57 |
To go to the next page, I can either tap
the arrow in the bottom-right corner, or
| | 03:00 |
can simply swipe my finger across the
question.
| | 03:05 |
Question 2, what do you see in this
picture, I will choose lot's of live
| | 03:09 |
crabs, check answer, it's correct.
Next which of these items is not a fruit
| | 03:14 |
or vegetable?
I will choose the wrong answer and Tab
| | 03:17 |
Check answer again and once again it
tells me that it's wrong and then I
| | 03:20 |
should try again.
Try something else, check the answer and
| | 03:25 |
it's correct.
The last one is where I can drag text
| | 03:29 |
labels onto the pictures.
Just like so.
| | 03:34 |
Check the answer and move forward.
At the end, it tells you how many you got correct.
| | 03:39 |
If you want to, you can start the quiz
over.
| | 03:41 |
And take it again.
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| Inserting a Keynote presentation| 00:02 |
You may have existing Keynote
presentations that you'd like to include
| | 00:05 |
in your iBook, created in iBooks Author.
As you can see here, we're in Keynote.
| | 00:09 |
And I have a simple presentation, with
three slides attached to it.
| | 00:13 |
Each one of these slides has some custom
animation to it.
| | 00:15 |
When you import a keynote presentation
into iBooks Author, not every animation
| | 00:19 |
will carry through, but some do.
Let's have a look.
| | 00:24 |
Here we have the first slide
transitioning into the next one.
| | 00:28 |
As you can see, there are some custom
animation there.
| | 00:30 |
Then the text will fly into screen, and
finally we'll go to the third slide, with
| | 00:36 |
some more animation, where some photos
will drop into the scene.
| | 00:42 |
Now let's take a look at how we would
integrate this existing Keynote
| | 00:47 |
presentation into iBooks Author.
I'll go to the second page here, and I'm
| | 00:53 |
also going to change the page layout to a
simple blank page.
| | 00:58 |
Under the Widgets menu, choose Keynote.
Once you've added a keynote widget, just
| | 01:03 |
like any other widget or gallery item
that you would add to the project, you
| | 01:06 |
can resize it, rearrange it, and put it
wherever you'd like.
| | 01:11 |
If you go to the Widget Inspector and
start with layout, you can choose where
| | 01:15 |
your title and caption will sit over the
presentation.
| | 01:19 |
You can have both appearing at the top.
Split across the top and the bottom, or
| | 01:24 |
both living at the bottom of the
presentation.
| | 01:28 |
You can also choose to hide the title,
and or the caption if you prefer.
| | 01:34 |
The background, can be turned on or off,
as well, When you go to the Interaction
| | 01:37 |
tab, you can choose the Keynote
presentation that you want to include.
| | 01:43 |
Here I have the Keynote presentation on
the desktop.
| | 01:46 |
I'll insert that, and it takes just a
moment for iBooks Author to render the
| | 01:50 |
files out into an HTML file that will be
embedded inside of the iBook.
| | 01:55 |
Once it's ready, you have a couple more
options you can choose from.
| | 01:59 |
You can choose to enable transport
controls so the viewer has arrows visible
| | 02:02 |
that they can tap through.
If you turn that off, all the viewer
| | 02:06 |
needs to do is tap on the screen to see
the next slide.
| | 02:10 |
You can also choose to have the viewer
only be able to view the presentation in
| | 02:12 |
full screen mode.
When you enable that, the viewer will see
| | 02:17 |
a small thumbnail, as you see here, that
you can position anywhere in your document.
| | 02:22 |
Once they tap that thumbnail, it'll open
to full screen in the iBook.
| | 02:26 |
Let's take a look at both views.
On this page, I have my existing
| | 02:30 |
presentation, which I'll just position in
the center of the page.
| | 02:33 |
And I'm also going to copy that, and then
create a new page, after the existing
| | 02:39 |
one, and paste that Keynote presentation
back in.
| | 02:47 |
This time though I'll choose full screen
only, and position it in the corner of
| | 02:50 |
the page.
So now we have the same Keynote
| | 02:53 |
presentation twice.
Once in the normal view and once as full
| | 02:57 |
screen only.
Let's preview this on the iPad and see
| | 03:00 |
what it looks like.
Now we're looking at this iBook on the iPad.
| | 03:07 |
Here's my presentation page.
All I have to do is tap the Play button,
| | 03:11 |
and then tap again to start viewing it.
As you can see, the first transition has
| | 03:16 |
been reduced to a simple cross dissolve
as it has for these additional text animations.
| | 03:24 |
However, when we go to the next page.
You'll see that we have retained the
| | 03:27 |
animations for the pictures dropping into
the page.
| | 03:32 |
So again, some animations are maintained,
while some are reduced to simple cross dissolves.
| | 03:38 |
If we swipe to the next page, you'll see
that the presentation here is viewed as
| | 03:41 |
just a thumbnail.
By tapping that thumbnail, iBooks will
| | 03:45 |
take me into the full screen mode.
Where once again I can simply tap the
| | 03:48 |
screen to view the next slide.
When you're done viewing the
| | 03:58 |
presentation, all you need to do is tap
the x mark in the top left of the window,
| | 04:01 |
and that'll take you back to the book.
| | 04:04 |
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| Creating interactive images| 00:02 |
One of the great capabilities of an iBook
created in iBooks Author is that of the
| | 00:05 |
interactive image.
The interactive image can be a high
| | 00:09 |
resolution photograph or illustration
that your viewer can dive into by tapping
| | 00:11 |
on it and getting more information about
it.
| | 00:15 |
Once you've created a widget, you'll need
to add some media to it.
| | 00:18 |
You can do that from the media browser,
or by simply dragging and dropping from
| | 00:21 |
the finder.
Here on the desktop I have a high
| | 00:25 |
resolution map of Vietnam.
I'm going to drag and drop that into the
| | 00:28 |
interactive widget and then I can go
ahead and position the widget wherever I like.
| | 00:35 |
You can rearrange the original view in
here by simply dragging the picture around.
| | 00:40 |
You can change the size of the box by
dragging the corners and you can
| | 00:42 |
reposition the elements within it by
simply dragging them around as well.
| | 00:48 |
Notice in the widget inspector under
interaction, you have a default view as
| | 00:51 |
well as a line for each of the items that
have been added into the widget.
| | 00:56 |
By default, two of these items have been
added in for me.
| | 00:59 |
But I can add more or take them away with
the plus or minus buttons at the bottom.
| | 01:04 |
Let's start with our default view.
This is the view that customers will see
| | 01:07 |
when they first open this page.
It's important that you set a good
| | 01:10 |
default view to begin with, before adding
too much extra information into the map.
| | 01:16 |
As you can see in here, I can reposition
and resize the map by zooming in and out
| | 01:19 |
with this slider here.
I'll go ahead and set that as my default position.
| | 01:24 |
Once I've decided what I like, I simply
need to click on Set View to lock that
| | 01:27 |
into place.
Next, I'll need to reposition the
| | 01:30 |
individual widgets on here.
Let's take the first one here and
| | 01:34 |
reposition where that's going to go.
I can move the text block and I can move
| | 01:38 |
the target point.
You may find that you need to do a little
| | 01:42 |
bit of click and dragging to get things
exactly where you want.
| | 01:45 |
For example, I want this to point at the
first red circle here.
| | 01:48 |
Which is on Ho Chi Minh City.
And of course, I'm going to want the text
| | 01:51 |
box to be visible.
I'll go ahead and type in a title here
| | 01:54 |
for Ho Chi Minh City.
Once you're happy with the view, simply
| | 02:00 |
tap Set View.
Let's go to the next one.
| | 02:02 |
And once again I'll need to grab the
point, put it where I want it to point,
| | 02:06 |
find the widget, which may be off in
space somewhere, go ahead and drag that
| | 02:10 |
around, and again you may find that you
need to do a bit of dragging around
| | 02:13 |
before you get things set up the first
time.
| | 02:19 |
Remember you can always zoom in and out
of the image as well, and position the
| | 02:22 |
objects wherever you like.
Once you've set your individual views,
| | 02:27 |
you can preview them by tapping on the
view list over here in the Inspector.
| | 02:31 |
So there's the default view, the view for
Ho Chi Minh City, and the view for Hoi.
| | 02:38 |
You have a few other controls in here
that we should look at.
| | 02:41 |
You also have additional controls under
this tab.
| | 02:44 |
You can choose to show the descriptions
in a sidebar.
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Instead of on the individual little
widgets which means that a bar of
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informational will pop up covering part
of the photo or your illustration.
| | 02:53 |
If you decide to work this way, you need
to ensure that each one of the text
| | 02:56 |
widgets is not being covered by the white
bar.
| | 02:59 |
You may also want to make your overall
view a bit larger.
| | 03:02 |
Additionally, you can choose to show
transport controls, so that the viewer on
| | 03:06 |
the iPad will be able to see each
individual spot as a numeric button.
| | 03:11 |
However, without that, all they need to
do is tap on the screen to see the information.
| | 03:15 |
When you go to the layout tab, you'll
find the same capabilities that you have
| | 03:18 |
for all the other widgets.
You can turn a title on and off.
| | 03:22 |
Turn a caption on or off, and also turn
on or off a background.
| | 03:28 |
Further, you can choose to have your
layout for your title and caption both
| | 03:30 |
showing up at the top of the image, split
across the top and bottom, or, both
| | 03:33 |
showing at the bottom.
Let's take a look at a more complete map
| | 03:38 |
in another document.
Here we have the same map, with six
| | 03:42 |
different city locations added to them.
If we previewed this in the interaction
| | 03:47 |
tab, you'll see as we zoom into these,
that each one of these is displayed with
| | 03:50 |
just the title of the city on the text
popup, and then the sidebar has the description.
| | 03:57 |
We can rotate through these to see
exactly what the animation is going to
| | 04:00 |
look like on the iPad, where the
experience is at its best.
| | 04:05 |
We're now viewing the same map on the
iPad.
| | 04:08 |
As you can see, I can simply tap on a
name of a city, to zoom into it in the
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map, and to see the description over on
the left.
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As I tap on another city name, the map
automatically pans around, to zoom into
| | 04:19 |
that particular location.
If I tap anywhere else not the map it'll
| | 04:23 |
zoom out to show the whole thing.
And of course I don't have to go in order
| | 04:29 |
I can tap on number five, Hanoi for
example, pan around the map manually, tap
| | 04:33 |
on Hui Yan, tap anywhere on the map to
zoom back out and tap on another city to
| | 04:37 |
zoom back in.
The interactive display is quite dynamic
| | 04:44 |
and can be a great way to show details of
an image or an illustration that you want
| | 04:47 |
to show to your readers.
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| Adding links| 00:02 |
In iBooks Author, you can create links to
external webpages, to email addresses,
| | 00:06 |
or to galleries, or pages within the
iBook itself.
| | 00:10 |
Let's start by selecting a block of text
and open the Inspector.
| | 00:14 |
Under the Hyperlink View, and clicking on
the Hyperlink tab.
| | 00:18 |
Now notice the first thing you can do is
enable that selection as a hyperlink.
| | 00:23 |
And then, you can choose exactly what
it's going to link to.
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That can be a basic web page, an email
message, or you can type in the email
| | 00:29 |
address, as well as the subject of the
e-mail message that will be created.
| | 00:36 |
You can have it linked to a bookmark,
which we'll come back to in a moment, or
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you can have it link to a figure.
When you choose to link to a figure, all
| | 00:43 |
figures within the entire document can be
listed here for you to scroll through and
| | 00:46 |
locate which ones you want to link to.
Or, you can make it a little bit easier
| | 00:51 |
to find the figure that you're looking
for by filtering By Chapter.
| | 00:55 |
Once you select a figure that you want to
link to, it becomes an active hyperlink.
| | 00:58 |
And if you hover over it, you'll see a
pop-up showing what it's going to link to.
| | 01:03 |
You may also find if you're working with
a lot of links, that it can become
| | 01:06 |
tedious editing the links while they're
active.
| | 01:08 |
Because as soon you click on it, it jumps
to that hyperlink location.
| | 01:12 |
So if that's the situation, just enable
Make all hyperlinks inactive.
| | 01:17 |
This is only going to make them inactive
within the Editing mode.
| | 01:20 |
Once you Publish, all links will be
active regardless.
| | 01:24 |
Now, let's go back to the other link
type, bookmark.
| | 01:27 |
Currently, there are no bookmarks to link
to, because we haven't made any.
| | 01:30 |
So, let's make a bookmark, and then link
to it.
| | 01:36 |
I'll go to another page in the document
and select some text in here.
| | 01:40 |
And you can select an entire paragraph or
just a couple of words, whatever you like.
| | 01:46 |
I'll select the first line here, Wherever
Your Travels Take You.
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And then, under the Insert menu, choose
Bookmark.
| | 01:54 |
You'll notice that the Bookmark tab
becomes active under the Inspector.
| | 01:57 |
And we now have a Bookmark named,
Wherever Your Travels Take You, And it
| | 02:01 |
shows what page it's on, page 13.
Now, if I go elsewhere in the book and
| | 02:06 |
select some text, I can go ahead and add
a hyperlink to that bookmark, and there
| | 02:11 |
it is.
This allows me to easily link pages
| | 02:16 |
throughout the document to other
locations.
| | 02:19 |
So if you want to reference something, for
example, remember back in chapter 2, or
| | 02:23 |
skip ahead to chapter 10 to view this.
You can easily add those links throughout
| | 02:27 |
your document.
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| Creating a table of contents| 00:00 |
The table of contents is an important
element to any book that you create.
| | 00:05 |
And when your working with iBooks Author,
the table of contents is created for you automatically.
| | 00:10 |
Notice here on the left we have a series
of chapters that have already been
| | 00:12 |
written for this book.
And if you scroll to the top of the
| | 00:15 |
chapter list you'll see the table of
contents.
| | 00:18 |
When you select that, over on the right
you'll see a preview of what the table of
| | 00:20 |
contents is going to look like.
And at the bottom of the preview you'll
| | 00:25 |
see a row of dots indicating each page in
your table of content.
| | 00:29 |
Let's go back to the first one here.
Notice that the title, and the individual
| | 00:32 |
sections have been added in here
automatically, as well as the picture
| | 00:35 |
that's in the background.
All of this has been automatically
| | 00:39 |
generated, based off the original
template that I used for my individual chapters.
| | 00:44 |
If I open up a chapter, for example
chapter one, you'll see that I have a
| | 00:47 |
series of sections in here.
One through four, named street food,
| | 00:51 |
getting around, Ho Chi Mihn City and the
wet market.
| | 00:55 |
If we go back to the table of contents,
and look at the chapter listing for that,
| | 00:58 |
you'll see the chapter name as well as
the individual section titles listed here.
| | 01:04 |
If we go back to the Introduction, you'll
notice something that you do want to be
| | 01:06 |
aware of.
Within the introduction, I have two
| | 01:09 |
sections called Cameras and Staying
Connected.
| | 01:13 |
But before those two sections, I do have
two loose pages.
| | 01:16 |
These pages are not going to show up in
the table of contents.
| | 01:21 |
Notice here we are, looking at the table
of contents for the introduction.
| | 01:23 |
And there's nothing listed before the
cameras, for the staying connected sections.
| | 01:27 |
Any customization that you want to do to
the table of contents, you can simply do
| | 01:31 |
by making a change to the table of
contents directly.
| | 01:35 |
So for example, let's say I want to make
this black box larger, and even add a
| | 01:38 |
shape into this.
We'll just take a little square and put
| | 01:42 |
it up in the corner.
As I go through the rest of the table of
| | 01:45 |
contents pages, you'll notice that that
change has been applied throughout.
| | 01:49 |
So I don't need to locate a template and
modify that.
| | 01:52 |
Modifying any one of these pages, is
going to make a change throughout the
| | 01:55 |
entire table of contents.
Let's just undo those last couple of steps.
| | 01:59 |
You'll find a couple other options under
the Inspector, going to the Documents
| | 02:03 |
tab, and then tapping on table of
contents.
| | 02:08 |
You can choose which sections are going
to be listed in the table of contents,
| | 02:10 |
and if you want, you can remove some of
them.
| | 02:13 |
So for example, each one of these
sections here is a section under Photos.
| | 02:18 |
So if I was to remove that, you'd see
those sections disappear from the list.
| | 02:22 |
If I want to add them back in, simply tap
on the plus button and choose add
| | 02:26 |
section, section, photos.
You'll notice underneath that, a list of
| | 02:30 |
paragraph styles.
These paragraph styles can be included in
| | 02:33 |
your table of contents.
However, they do not show up when you're
| | 02:37 |
in the landscape mode.
The only show up in the portrait orientation.
| | 02:41 |
So for example, if we were to go back and
take a look at this chapter again, the
| | 02:45 |
introduction, and the pages before that,
you'll notice that I have a title header
| | 02:48 |
here called hello.
And if we look at the paragraph style,
| | 02:53 |
you'll see that the paragraph style of
heading one has been applied to it.
| | 02:57 |
Let's go back into the portrait
orientation again.
| | 03:01 |
And go back to the table of contents.
Notice here that we have the
| | 03:06 |
introduction, cameras and staying
connected just as we had on the main page.
| | 03:11 |
However, if we go to paragraph styles,
you'll see that I can add additional
| | 03:14 |
paragaph styles in here to have those
styles show up under the listing for the
| | 03:17 |
table of contents when in the portrait
mode.
| | 03:20 |
Let's do it.
I'll go to the plus button, and add a
| | 03:23 |
paragraph style for heading one.
It's added here and you may have noticed
| | 03:27 |
that it showed up over here on the book
outline as well.
| | 03:31 |
Now it hasn't shown up here yet, but
that's only because this needs to be refreshed.
| | 03:35 |
If I close and open this again we'll see
that new chapter listed.
| | 03:38 |
So there is a way to get those non
chapter pages listed in the table of contents.
| | 03:43 |
But only when you're in the vertical
mode.
| | 03:45 |
If you go back to your horizontal or
landscape view there still just got going
| | 03:48 |
to be visible.
Finally, if you'd like, you can have the
| | 03:51 |
page number showing up next to the table
of contents so for each section the page
| | 03:55 |
number will be listed.
We're now looking at the table of
| | 04:04 |
contents on the iPad.
As you can see there's a row of pages at
| | 04:07 |
the bottom here indicating each page
within that particular chapter.
| | 04:12 |
I can scroll along those pages, and as I
get to the end of the pages it'll
| | 04:14 |
automatically jump to the next chapter
for me.
| | 04:18 |
Or if I tap and drag on the main photo,
it'll just automatically skip to the next chapter.
| | 04:26 |
You can immediately go to any page by
simply tapping on that page.
| | 04:31 |
And you can get back to the table of
contents by tapping on the screen,
| | 04:35 |
tapping the List icon and then tapping
table of contents.
| | 04:39 |
You can also jump straight to a section
by tapping on the section number within
| | 04:42 |
the table of contents itself.
Here I'll tap on 1.3, Ho Chi Minh City,
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and that'll immediately take us to there.
You can also return to the table of
| | 04:51 |
contents by simply pinching down on the
page.
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You can do this no matter where you are
in the book.
| | 04:56 |
When I'm viewing this page, and I slide
through to the next one, into the next
| | 05:00 |
one, I can simply pinch out to go back to
the table of contents.
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| Adding a glossary| 00:02 |
When creating a book with iBooks Author,
you can easily create a custom glossary
| | 00:05 |
for any term that you may want to define.
I'll start by adding a simple sentence.
| | 00:11 |
I enjoy a cold glass of water.
Now let's say that I want to define the
| | 00:17 |
word cold.
I can select that, and convert that into
| | 00:20 |
a glossary term.
If you don't see the Glossary toolbar, go
| | 00:24 |
to the View button, and choose Glossary
toolbar.
| | 00:27 |
You'll notice, that there's a section for
New Glossary Term, and the currently
| | 00:31 |
selected text, cold, is listed here.
All I have to do to convert that into a
| | 00:37 |
Glossary term is click on Add term.
When I click on that you'll notice that
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the text becomes bold.
Indicating that it is now a primary
| | 00:44 |
glossary reference.
If I'd like to define that reference in
| | 00:48 |
the glossary, I simply tap on the
glossary button which takes me to the
| | 00:51 |
glossary list.
Cold, not hot.
| | 00:55 |
Let's go back to the main book now.
Also define this last word, water.
| | 01:03 |
I'll select that, under new glossary
term, water's already inserted and I
| | 01:07 |
simply click on add term.
Once again it becomes bold and I can now
| | 01:12 |
edit it.
I could go back up to the glossary button
| | 01:15 |
here or select the glossary here.
However, I can also simply tap on the
| | 01:20 |
word to take me straight to the link.
Water, it's wet.
| | 01:27 |
Great, let's go back to our main chapter.
So here we have our first sentence, which
| | 01:30 |
currently has two glossary terms in it.
Now let's go to another section in the
| | 01:35 |
book, and I'll add another sentence.
How about something like, H2O is cold?
| | 01:40 |
Now let's say that, once again, I want to
apply a glossary term to the text.
| | 01:47 |
I could redefine this as H2O and add a
whole new term.
| | 01:50 |
But that doesn't really make sense cuz
I've already defined water.
| | 01:53 |
So instead of creating a new term, I can
simple go to Index Link Four.
| | 01:57 |
Pull this menu down and choose the link I
want to reference it to.
| | 02:00 |
And click Add Link.
You won't see any visual representation
| | 02:04 |
that this has become a link.
Except that when you run your mouse over
| | 02:07 |
it the cursor does change to a hand.
If you want to you can make this bold or
| | 02:11 |
italics manually.
If you're going to do this a lot.
| | 02:15 |
You may consider creating a new paragraph
style for the secondary glossary definitions.
| | 02:21 |
Let's go ahead and link cold in here as
well.
| | 02:23 |
Cold, add link, and it's done.
And I'm not going to make that one italic.
| | 02:29 |
Now let's go back to the glossary
definitions again.
| | 02:32 |
Here we have the two glossary terms that
we've added, cold and water.
| | 02:35 |
We have the description here, and you
also underneath that, have a section
| | 02:38 |
called related cost returns If only
relate two different terms, or any number
| | 02:42 |
of terms, I can simply drag and drop the
menu here.
| | 02:46 |
So if I like cold to be related to water,
I can just drag that down and it adds in.
| | 02:52 |
Now on the iPad on the view reading the
book and looking at the glossary, there's
| | 02:55 |
still list of related glossary terms in
here.
| | 02:58 |
Underneath that you'll see you have an
index list, show which terms the caption
| | 03:01 |
has been used in.
If you wanted to change the primary
| | 03:05 |
reference from one section to another,
simply click on the black triangle and
| | 03:08 |
choose primary definition.
When I do that, when I go back to section
| | 03:13 |
2, you'll notice that now H2O has become
bold, indicating that it is the primary
| | 03:16 |
definition for that glossary entry.
If I go back here to the original one
| | 03:22 |
that was water, you'll see that it is no
longer linked.
| | 03:28 |
Back in the glossary you can create a
glossary entry that's not just text but
| | 03:31 |
also has pictures or movies in it as
well.
| | 03:34 |
So, you could easily take any photo from
your library and add it in and again you
| | 03:38 |
can even add movies.
Finally you may have noticed these
| | 03:42 |
colored icons underneath the status bar.
These are simply there for your reference
| | 03:47 |
so that you can color categorize your
glossary terms to help you in organizing
| | 03:50 |
in a very long list.
These color categories won't show up on
| | 03:54 |
the iPad.
They are simply there for your reference.
| | 03:57 |
Let's see what this looks like on the
iPad...
| | 04:02 |
We're now viewing this sample book on the
iPad.
| | 04:03 |
And as you can see, I have the same line
of text.
| | 04:06 |
I enjoy a cold glass of water.
If I tap on the word cold, it's going to
| | 04:10 |
pop up a small overlay showing me the
definition, and also allowing me to look
| | 04:13 |
it up in the dictionary.
Or simply go to the main glossary index.
| | 04:19 |
If I go to the Main Glossary index I'll
see all of the entries in here.
| | 04:25 |
There's water, and notice at the bottom
it shows the relates glossary terms.
| | 04:29 |
There's cold.
I can tap on that and that will take me
| | 04:31 |
back to the cold entry.
When I'm done simply tap on Done and it
| | 04:35 |
takes you back to the main page that you
were viewing.
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6. Previewing and PublishingPreviewing on your iPad| 00:02 |
It's important while creating your iBook
in iBooks Author to regularly preview
| | 00:06 |
your iBook on an actual iPad.
To do that, simply click on the Preview
| | 00:10 |
button in the toolbar.
If you don't currently have an iPad
| | 00:14 |
connected once you plug one in you'll see
it show up in the list, where you can
| | 00:17 |
select it and then click the Preview
button.
| | 00:22 |
If for some reason the Preview button
doesn't become active right away, simply
| | 00:25 |
cancel it, wait a moment, and then click
Preview again.
| | 00:30 |
You'll also be notified that you have to
have iBooks running on the iPad.
| | 00:34 |
By default, when you click the Preview
button, the entire book is going to be
| | 00:37 |
published to your iPad.
That's fine when you're first writing the book.
| | 00:42 |
However, as your book gets larger and
larger, those previews will take longer
| | 00:44 |
and longer to generate and to preview, so
you may only want to preview the current
| | 00:47 |
section that you're actually working on.
To do that, you can go to the File menu,
| | 00:53 |
and just under the Preview option, you'll
see Preview Current Selection Only.
| | 00:58 |
You can chose that to view just the
section that you're actually working on.
| | 01:02 |
You can also reverse the behavior so that
the primary option is to preview just the selection.
| | 01:08 |
Go on to the iBooks Author menu and to
Preferences and under General and when
| | 01:12 |
previewing you'll have the option to
preview the entire book or to preview
| | 01:15 |
only the current section.
If you select that you'll notice the the
| | 01:21 |
options are now reversed under the FIle
menu.
| | 01:25 |
Preview is going to preview just the
current section, and then Preview Entire
| | 01:28 |
Book is the alternate.
It also means that the button here will
| | 01:32 |
preview just the current section.
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| Exporting for free distribution| 00:02 |
Once you're done with your book, it's
time to publish it.
| | 00:04 |
The Publish button is only for publishing
to the iBook Store.
| | 00:08 |
Apple's Terms of Service dictate that if
you want to sell your book, you can only
| | 00:11 |
sell it through the Apple iBook Store.
However, if you want to give your book
| | 00:15 |
away for free, you are able to export an
iBook format and upload it to your website.
| | 00:20 |
To do that, go to the File menu and
choose Export.
| | 00:24 |
From the Export menu, you have three
different options.
| | 00:27 |
You can export as plain text, which will
remove all of your custom formatting,
| | 00:30 |
pictures, videos, and interactive
content.
| | 00:35 |
You can export a PDF file, which will
retain most of your formatting, but will
| | 00:38 |
still lose any interactive content.
Or you can export out as a iBooks file.
| | 00:44 |
This is the same file that would be
published on the iBook store for selling.
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To generate the iBooks file, simply click
Next, and save it wherever you like.
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If you want to see what it looks like
when you upload the iBooks to your own
| | 00:59 |
website, head over to
photojoseph.com/iBooks.
| | 01:03 |
This is my own personal website where I
have the iBooks project that I have been
| | 01:06 |
working on available for download for
free.
| | 01:09 |
If you visit this page from your iPad,
you will be able to tap on this icon
| | 01:12 |
here, download the iBooks directly to
your iPad, and then install it
| | 01:15 |
automatically into iBooks.
Or if you download it on your computer,
| | 01:20 |
you can simply drag the file into iTunes
and sync it to your iPad.
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