Fixed portrait mode, ibook author

Hello,
there are many print books made in portrait mode already. To produce it for iPad wit Author means to develop a completely new layout. Except there is an option to choose fixed layout. But we can deactivate portrait but not landscape.
I guess there is no solution except to use another editor?!

A simple two-colum layout that you pour the existing text into might work. You'll have to reposition some images and the like, but it's probably not too difficult to do that.
Michi.

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I wonder if anyone can help and advise me on a problem
i have a page created in ibooks author
it contains graphics, text and text boxes with a picture frame and a gradient fill inside; however when I switch from landscape mode to portrait mode the text box I created that needs to be after all the text created is either above the text or hidden behind a scrollable blue line with up and down arrows.
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Andy:
Here's the deal - often enough, a certain layout subtlety (defined as 'do this to do that') is found to be predicated on one or more specific templates.
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I don't know for a fact that your issue would be rectified by changing templates, and I'm not up for doing all the work to (a) find the proper template and (b) throughly refit your content to test the voracity of that template's ability to solve this one issue, sorry. Keep in mind there may be a very direct/simple solution with your book as-is...only by debugging it would you know
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Thanx for the prompt response, KT. I have indeed seen that thread, only just after I posted the question.
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