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Dragging and dropping plain text

Dragging and dropping plain text - iBooks Author Tutorial

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Dragging and dropping plain text

- iBooks Author is a fantastic application for building dynamic interactive, beautifully designed books. But at the core of every single book is the text that the user is going to be reading. And in this chapter, we're going to explore the three basic ways of importing text from other document types directly into our iBooks Author project. And let's begin that with the most basic type of document, a plain text document. Now if you're following along, I'm in EC, 03, start. And we're going to start off in Chapter 7 Nature Watch. In the exercise files, I've included a few files for us. The first one is called Nature Text. I'm going to go ahead and bring that file up so you can see it here on screen. If you need to, you can pause the video and copy this text into a plain text file. We're going to import this directly into iBooks Author. We've already seen how we can select the text, copy it, and paste it into a layout, but let's explore another way of doing this. I'm going to go ahead and…

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