Center text in Pages to E-Pub Export.

I have been doing a bit of playing around with exporting files in Pages to e-Pub. Also through searching these forums I have found many that have had issues with getting text to remain centered in their books. What I have found is that it might be a problem with iBooks and not the export function of Pages. It seems that if I open the exported e-pubs in the free Nook app for my Mac, the centered content is retained. loading the same file in iBooks causes all centered text to be left justified. So it might be that Apple has some work to do with iBooks.
Dave

You could try asking in the Pages forum
https://discussions.apple.com/community/iwork/pages

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First, I have to say that I posted the same question on ''Creating ePubs'' discussioun page but nobody could help.
I am trying something really easy but could not solve it. Hope someone can help.
Ok, I know that if I choose ''Chapte Name'' as a pharagraph style, iBook reader automatically puts it into a new page, so the new page starts with the chapter name on top. I dont have any problems with my chapters.
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OR
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One of the consequences of working all night on this was that there is errata, or improved insight.
As I mentioned previously, each of the four document parts that I tested is in its own section. This means that each of the first three document icons, in thumbnail view, has its own distinct yellow race track around it. The chapter/body text is in a fourth multi-page section.
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You can likely insert step 14 at step 7 and skip 9 - 13. It was late.
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Hi,
I am trying something really easy but could not solve it. Hope someone can help.
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I think this happens because I press the return key to center the texts. So, is there a way to lock texts to the pages where they belong to prevent them to interwine with other pages even if I press return to center the text
OR
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Thank you

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--[SCRIPT clear_Pages_format]
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déplacer le fichier ainsi créé dans le dossier
<VolumeDeDémarrage>:Users:<votreCompte>:Library:Scripts:Applications:Pages:
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--=====
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L’Utilitaire AppleScript permet d’activer le Menu des scripts :
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--=====
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--=====
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--=====
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)
2011/12/27
--=====
on run
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footer margin (real) : The footer margin of the publication.
header margin (real) : The header margin of the publication.
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left margin (real) : The left margin of the publication.
outside margin (real) : The outside margin of the publication when facing pages is enabled.
page attributes (page setup) : Page settings for printing
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selection (selection-object) : The current selection or insertion point. Use the "select" command to change the selection. Setting of this property replaces the current selected object. E.g., set selection of document 1 to "hello".
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line spacing type (at least/inbetween/relative) : The type of line spacing.
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outline (boolean) : Whether the font style is outline.
paragraph background color (color) : The color of the object's fill.
paragraph style (paragraph style) : The representative paragraph style of the text.
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shadow angle (real) : The directional angle, in degrees, that the shadow is cast.
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shadow color (color) : The color of the shadow.
shadow offset (real) : The offset from the text box content that the shadow extends to.
shadow opacity (real) : The amount of opacity for the shadow, in percent.
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space before (real) : The space before the paragraph, in points.
start new page (boolean) : Start the paragraph at the beginning of the next page.
strikethrough color (color) : The color of the strikethrough line(s).
strikethrough type (double strikethrough/none/single strikethrough) : Whether one or more lines are drawn through the characters.
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text indent (real) : The distance from the label to the text.
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CAUTION : I guess that it's a bug but we can't use
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end run
--=====
--[/SCRIPT]
--{code}
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 26 décembre 2011 12:03:51
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When I go to the the first link you gave # 7 says "To export your Pages document as an ePub document, choose File, Export and make sure ePub is selected as the export format."
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