Floating Gallery Widget- Images on a Page

I have a problem with the gallery widget.. it keeps changing its position ON THE PAGE, ie. it 'falls' past the bottom of the page or if positioned with a text box underneath it, it will often 'fall' down with the caption on the pictures covering text in the text box.
It seems to be arbitrary.. it happens sometimes but not all the time on all the gallery widget images. And it does not appear to matter if there is only ONE picture in the gallery widget or multiple images.
My book is very image heavy and my reliance on images to remain in place, in relation to the text is mandatory
Any ideas on why this is happening and if so.. what to do to correct it all?
Is it a bug in the app, or... what? If it is a bug, when can we expect an update to iBooks Author?
I am working in landscape mode and do not bother with the portrait mode.

That object is linked to text on that page.....iBA Help has this to say about that
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On a book page, an object is either inline, anchored, or floating. Objects you add in iBooks Author are either anchored or floating by default. You can follow the steps below to add an object as an inline object, or to change an object from one type to another after you add it.
You can place an anchored or inline object anywhere on a page with text on it. Each anchored or inline object has a marker ( or ) that indicates the text the object is associated with.
Add an object as inline
Change an object from one kind to another
Select the object.
Do one of the following:
In the format bar: Click Inline, Floating, or Anchored.If the format bar isn’t visible, choose View > Show Format Bar.
In the Wrap inspector: Click one of the Object Placement buttons.If the Wrap inspector isn’t open, click Inspector in the toolbar and click the Wrap Inspector button.
If the controls for changing the object type are dimmed, it might be because you’re in portrait orientation. Try switching to landscape. Or try adding a title, label, or caption to the object and then converting it.
Reposition an anchored or inline object
You can place an anchored or inline object anywhere on a page with text on it.
To reposition an anchored object: Drag the object or its marker to the text you want to associate the object with.When the object’s associated text moves to another page (because of changing content), the object moves to the same position on the new page.
Important: You can move an anchored object (or its marker) only in landscape orientation.
To reposition an inline object: Drag the object, or cut and paste the object’s marker to a new location.

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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emmarichards4 wrote:
Do I need to have the same path as in my root folder, so for example within my Public folder with my host, have a 'script's folder and then put the 'jquery.js' file within that or should that not matter?
All paths (the route from the parent file to the dependent file) are crucial.
If the path is not correct, the required file will not be found and the effect will not work.
There's no need to upload files individually and manually place them into remote folders. DW handles all file and folder paths for you if you use the Files panel.
For example, http://www.emmarichards.co.uk/scripts/lightbox.js = 404 error. The file still does not exist on the server in that location.
You should be able to click on the css and scripts folders locally, click Put and all files in those folders will be uploaded correctly.

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Old Toad wrote:
John:
#1 - are you referring to the "skimming" of photos as you move the cursor over the gallery? That's javascript controlled I believe and would require knowledge of javascript and widgets. You might ask Cyclosaurer as he's the resident expert on javascript and widgets.
No, no, no -- I'm fine with the skimming, in fact I like that feature. I'm talking about the fact that EACH of the six different MobileMe Gallery widgets, from the moment I dragged each one onto the iWeb page I was creating and selected which already-published Gallery it should link to, began showing each of the different images contained in that Gallery/Album, changing to the next one every second or two. This happened completely on its own, I did not (at least not intentionally) select or activate anything, and it happens in ALL the widget windows, even though the mouse is not skimming over ANY of them.
It continues (again, in every widget window, and completely on its own) when I save the page, it continues when I publish the page, it continues when I visit the page online. The only thing which does stop it -- temporarily -- is when I do mouse over a particular widget window and manually skim. But the moment I stop skimming, this "automatic slideshow preview" (I don't know what else to call it) kicks back in.
Is this normal? Or is this some weird aberration peculiar to my system?
The added annoyance is that when you click on one of the widgets, instead of going to that Gallery in its full album view, it goes to a single frame view of whichever image happened to be being displayed at the time you clicked, requiring the user to then click on the "Back to Album" button in the upper left to get their bearings. Which again makes me wonder -- is this normal?
#2 - Again, you're referring to the skimming, right? Since it's a square shape the photos would have to be square to be able to be scaled exactly. Since it's only a "skim" of what's inside being perfectly scaled isn't that necessary.
It certainly wouldn't be as annoying if I could switch off this "automatic slideshow preview" behaviour as described above. (Though even for the skim function, I still think it would make sense to have the option to have the images auto scale to fit completely within the widget window -- which is not square, by the way -- or at least on my system appears to only be sizeable as a horizontal rectangle, to a maximum size of 320x260 pixels. This orientation works fine for previewing horizontally-oriented images, but looks butt-ugly when completely decapitating various groups of people in vertically-aligned shots, of which I happen to have many.)
In any case, if an auto-scale option to fit all image preview thumbs within the widget window (even for mere skimming) is something I need to add to my Feature Request list, that's fine. It's this bizarre, completely on its own "automatic slideshow preview" behaviour I'm still trying to understand.
#3 - it still exists. If you don't want it to be displayed in your overall MMe gallery with the rest of the individual galleries Apple isn't letting it be published alone.
Just to make sure we're talking about the same bug, in an ideal world I DON'T want these particular Gallery/Albums to be displayed as part of my overall MMe Gallery page, but I DO want them to be the designated content of the MMe Gallery WIDGETS which I'm including on the specific iWeb page in question. And if this bug still has not been fixed, then it appears I and many others are still S.O.L. for what should be a simple and obvious bit of formatting.
Send your 2¢ worth to apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html. We're just users like yourself and can't do anything about it.
Rest assured I will. What's one more page after the hundreds I've already sent them?
I'm just a bit stunned that this particular bug hasn't been dealt with already. And it only reinforces my firm belief (see the thread at
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1996786&tstart=0)
that Apple desperately needs an Inter-App Czar, someone with the carte-blanche power to literally FORCE different programming teams to make all Apple apps not only play nicely together, but to play intelligently and intuitively and creatively together!
jb

How do you resize the Picture Gallery Widget? (below 279 pt)

The Picture Gallery widget works very nicely on a book, but it's way too big for my book design. I want a smaller image in the corner of the book. Something you tap on to open the picture gallery.
I can get rid of the title, the caption and the background and shrink the widget a bit, but then you go to the "metrics" section in the Inspector, and the widget will not go below a certain width or height (a potential disaster for the overall design of your book).
Bookry's widgets will not cut it either. What is the option then? Do I need to hand-code my own picture gallery widget? Good Lord..

The arrows don't show up on the iPad, they are only to aid navigation within iBA. You can use boxes in the background to frame your galleries (as the background is off). I believe it's also possible to change the colour of the dots beneath the gallery too, although I forget how to do that right now.
About Apple's rigid UX – I agree that it can be frustrating. Apple intended iBA to be used by everyone, and the sort of design options and customisability we might want may confuse the less experienced user. Apple also wanted the UI for every book to be the same – from the point of view of the new user, once you've used one iBA ebook (or iBook, I'm not sure what Apple want us to call it), you can use them all. Otherwise end users would to get used to a slightly different UI on each book, which kind of works against the idea that ideally UI should be intuitive enough to be invisible. I can see the point in that. I have created a 'How to use' section in every iBA file I've made. It get's old quickly.
Oh, and (you probably know this, but…) you can choose your own custom icon for audio. It's limited, as it's only a placeholder image that allows you to play an audio file, there's no ability to pause the audio or stop it once you choose the view as thumbnail choice. Something I'd like to see changed.
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Q1. Well, took some time to put it all together but now I'm close to finnish it, so I thought I had to preview how it looked as a PDF, and exported it.
Quite surpricing that only the the first image on all pages with the gallery widget was present? Is that how it should be?
I who thought the gallery widget navigations "buttons" would be converted to a link to the next image and that should get links for previous and next image and so fort, nutbut it didnt :-/
Ok I can make pages for all images, but 700-800 pages for just them doesn't seem smooth IMHO :-)
Q2. The gallery widget doesnt seem very flexable to handle both landscape and portright images att the same time, so I ended up making 2 pages for each gallery, one for landscape and one for portright mode images. What am I missing here?
Wishlist for iBA:
1. Make the gallery widget work for PDF export.
2. Make the gallery widget flexible to auto-handle landscape and portraight images. (In runtime, in landskape mode of the iPad, the landscape images are shown as much as possible, and the portright ones fit in hight with perhaps a lightgray (customable?) background on the sides, and vise versa when held in portright mode.)
/Cekari

1.) Widgets by design require a way to interact - PDFs are just 'readable', so naturally the interaction can't be used and the first image is akin to a placeholder showing where the widget is laid out. In iBA's case, I think the PDF is most useful for proofing, demo, etc. - if a valid preview is desired, either publish as preview (still limited for some examples) or share as an .ibooks file via iTunes.
2.) Layout your widgets in landscape, edit content in portrait and of course test in both. In those cases where you need a bit more control, bifurcate.
Thanks for your wishlist: As always, feel free to use the 'Provide iBooks Author Feedback' menu item for features you'd like added in the future, etc.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ibooks-author.html
New iBA users should see: Publishing With iBooks Author
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025597.do
Ken

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Hi Sharin,
Thank you for your response.
yes, you right we can use both formats (portrait and land scape) in one smartform. But, here my probelm is when i use two main windows with difrerent main window size (width), the SAP system is not accepting. and even the page break also not working in secondary window.
I want to display some number of forms with different format (say portrait and land scape). In this case the main window size is different. so how we can achieve solution for this issue.
if you have any idea, please share with me.
Thanks for your reply in advance.
Ram.

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Page in question:
http://web.me.com/studiosphoenix/Altf4/Photo_Galleries.html
Message was edited by: coocooforcocoapuffs

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I have created web photo galleries in iPhoto 08. Then I have opened iWeb08 and created a page an added a web gallery widget for each of the galleries on this page, everything works fine. Now I fire up the iPhone and go to my iWeb page where the widgets are located.
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