IBooks Author editing issues

Why does my iBooks Author advance the page when I try to edit words?

In what way "edit"?
If you mean on the page... are you sure its not your moving pages???
If its Spell checking it could be moving to the next word needing correction.

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Ibook author uploading issues - help!

Hi. Finally got the approval and am in the delivery stage - but a big HOWEVER - I can't get the program to accept any of the copies of the publication piece I have. I can't upload the iBooks Author version that I created and saved (the only edited version for iPad that I have). Any suggestions? I am obviously not doing something.
Also - they are asking for a "preview" version and I understand that it is a few pages of the book, but do I create that version in iBook Author or just from a PDF version of it. Because it needs to be uploaded, I will probably have the same trouble I am having uploading the full book.

Haven't what?
iTP won't let you select something you can't upload...PDF is not a choice at that point.
For the store Preview, create a short version of your iBook...you need a file with the suffic .ibooks <or> .epub

IBooks Author saving issues over Dropbox

I keep my working copy of a book in Dropbox. On one machine only I get a message when I close saying that it can't save because another machine has altered it. But it has not been open on this other machine. I've been using this for several years, but this has just recently begun to happen. Perhaps a factor and perhaps not, but one machine is on Mavericks and one is Mt Lion.

Its likely that when you work in iBA and it auto saves to the file which is the DB folder on your HD.
Do all you items dropped in DP auto update on other devices? Dropbox should work independantly of a machines OS.
Creating a new account will not resolve anything in my opinbion, DB is a file sharing system and designed to work across multiple platforms.
I think the clue is in "recently began to happen..." can you think back to what changed you have made.

Different ISBN for iBooks standard, and iBooks author?

Hey guys,
Submitting regular iBook and iBooks author edition. It was suggested by Apple to use 'Extended" in the title, to clarify that the two editions are different. Cool beans, BUT, do I need an individual ISBN for each version?
Big thanks for your time.

An iBA book to the store does not carry an ISBN(13) requirement.

Ibook author loading, save, open and update issue

When we create the ibook author file with 30 pages the systme gets too slow, since it took cache file within the recovery folder. Also when it take more time while save, open and update process. Curent file size is 169 MB (Minimac 10.7 with 2GB RAM and ibook author version is 1.1)
Can you any one investigate this issue and help me how to remove this cache file and make the ibook author file is fast?

I'd suggest to upgrade the ram in your mini to the maximum - low cost and the best thing you can do to improve performance for all apps.
The cache file's purpose is to make things faster....but if a book is corrupted there may be issues using it for editing. You may need to remove resources and re-add to fix - that or make a new book from start.
See this Apple Tech Note:
Optimizing performance in your iBooks Author books [ support.apple.com/kb/HT5117 ]
Good luck.
Ken

I deleted my ibooks author file but the preview is still available on my ipad, can I get the ibook back into ibooks author to continue to edit?

I deleted my ibooks author file but the preview is still available on my ipad, can I get the ibook back into ibooks author to continue to edit? I have not published anything, just previewed on my ipad but the file seems to be deleted from my imac which is what I was using ibooks author on. Any help is welcome!

It's not a 'process' at all.
If it was easy/straightforward, people would be turning store versions into iBA versions left/right and all **** would break loose. It's not and that's a good thing, sorry
Work up from whatever version you have.
Any work you value should be backed up....period. That backup should be used and tested regularly. Consider this a lesson learned, perhaps. Good luck in the future.

How do I edit words (misspellings) in iBooks Author?

I have been sent a book to edit in IBooks Author, but can't change words or spellings in the document. How do I change words that are spelled incorrectly or grammar that is incorrect?

suetheeditor wrote:
I have been sent a book to edit in IBooks Author, but can't change words or spellings in the document. How do I change words that are spelled incorrectly or grammar that is incorrect?
Have you been sent an .iba file which you are opening with the iBooks Author app?

Link to editable PDF in iBook author

I'm working on an iBook textbook and would like link to some editable pdfs found at http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/
I know how to insert the hyperlink to the worksheets within iBook Author, but I'm wondering if there is any way to make them editable on an iPad?
Is there an iBook widget that could accomplish this or could students open the pdf pages in another iPad app (or browser) and be able to edit them?
Thanks ~ Peter

Looking for something that could be the digital replacement for a hard copy graphic organizer.
As you seem to be creating a tool for running a classroom, you should be looking at making your own app. In the end, you'll want more and more features, so you might as well go that direction now.
For general app suggestions, you may want to try the Using iPad forums.
Good luck in any case.
Ken

Do I need to put a tag on making a layout editable on iBooks Author?

Hello,
I am teaching iBooks Author. And one of my students asked me why there is a tag to make a layout editable on iBooks Author.
So I tried to figure out the objective of using a tag on iBooks Author. But, I haven't found the reason that we put a tag into the process.
Is there anyone who already found the answer?
Thanks,

Hi,
they are known as smart tags in ibooks author for page layout.
They identify books:
body part -- convert text box into linkable textbox
main image -- image will be act as media place-holder and will reflect in table of content
you can try other option in the drop down.
Thanks,

HT5711 When iBooks Author will support right-to-left text editing?????

When iBooks Author will support right-to-left text editing????? and RTL fliping pages?

Nobody in these forums can tell you when Apple will add some feature you want, but you can ask for it via
http://www.apple.com/feedback

Audio compression issues in iBooks Author

Hi - I am having quality issues with audio compression. I have a voice only file. It is fine in the original recording. I have saved to aiff and m4a and dropped both into iBooks widget. The widget "optimizes" it and the resulting sound is full of echo and sounds like repeats of first and last consonants of words. I even thought that my stereo channels might be out of sync, so mixed down to mono. Same sound problems in iBooks.

Found the root of the problem and a fix
1. Your audio file is at 48hz
2. Convert to 44.1 hz in Logic or any other Digital Audio Workstations
3. Export to a labeled folder with settings AIFF or Wave 16bit
4. From the folder drag and drop audio files in iBooks Author
IBook Author auto 'opitimizing' can handle that with no glitches or dropouts
[email protected] Nevis WI

Error Message in iBooks Author

I am trying to export an .iba file made in iBooks Author to my computer but I am getting an error message saying that I need to check for space and permission. It is not a space issue as there is plenty of storage remaining. I am wondering if there is some sort of permission setting that I am missing.
The original iba file was created by another teacher and I am editing it. Is there a feature in iBooksAuthor that prevents multiple people from exporting the original file??

adilaura wrote:
I am trying to export an .iba file
Are you trying to use File > Export to create a file in the .ibooks format? Or something else?
Did you already Save it?

Why do I need Pages 5 to open iBooks Author documents?

I am a TA at a college and I have been grading students' iBook submissions for a class. However, this week when I went to open their submissions I got the following error message: "You need a newer version of Pages to open this document." Clicking the "Learn More" button sent me to the Pages 5 website, which said I had to pay $20 for Pages. I do not currently have Pages on my computer (MacBook Pro OS X 10.7.5). Do I really have to pay $20 to do my grading? Is there any way around this? Can the students save their submissions as an older version?

I've just had this issue. Edited an .iba file on a different computer and then when I tried to open it again on my old iMac that it was originally created on it gave precisely that error: You need a newer version of Pages to open this document." Google points to this webpage, but all the answers above miss the point the op was making which is that iBooks Author is giving a stupid error message. The fix was to update iBooks Author to the latest version on my old computer. (Basically the other mac had a more recent version of iBooks Author on it.)
What a waste of a morning, installing the hideous Yosemite, fixing the god-awful look of the thing, upgrading pages (unnecessarily it seems), and finally getting iBooks Author upgraded.
Anyway, I hope this answer might help others avoid similar.
I

Best workflow practices for iBooks Author re Enhanced Books?

Hi
I have already published one Enhanced iBook in iTunes (The Wandering Gorillas) about my research in Rwanda. I am now working on several others which will contain much more interactive media - photos and video.
I have vast amounts of unique photos and video - which would be useful for education purposes. So, 'where fools rush in...' I began to creat a new Enhanced iBook with lots of rich media.
However, I immediately started to have serious problems as the fille sizes grew very large - due to the many images and especially because iBooks Author creates versions etc. Thanks to solutions provided on another post by Pondini & Linc Davis these problems have now been resolved and I have regained my 'lost' 100 GB - which had been gobbled up into the folder DocumentREvisions and private/var - you can read their solutions here
https://discussions.apple.com/message/22800295#22800295
Now, I wish to avoid the same problems - and try to get the best possible workflow to use when creating Enhanced iBooks - which contain lots of rich media files such as photos and video.
And so I am asking advice form anyone who has created such iBooks using iBooks author - or who is an expert in the finer workings of this software.
First - Since Apple restrict the final iBook size to 2 Gb (and recommen smaller) I am considering creating my new iBook via separetly published chapters - so that each will be less than the max 2GB. Obvioulsy these will have to have some 'stand alone' usefulness!
But, is this a good practice? has anyone done this? Is there any way for the separate chapters to be later combined - by the user - in order to have a complete, coherent book?
Second, re image file sizes. For best quality on their new Retina Display iPads Apple suggest images of (No larger than ) 5000 x 5000. I used this - and it produced image file sizes of 20 -30 MB. I did some other trials - using images of 1024 x 1024 max - and on my iPad 2 (non Retina) my failing eyes could not see any difference? Their file size was reduced to 2- 300 KB
Would the difference be obvious on a Retina Display though? Should we use the largest possible resolution (and file size) - but this has serious implications for the eventual overall iBook file size.
What is the best compromise?
Third, I have an iMac with an i7 250 Gb Flash drive and a separate 1TB hard drive. All my 'media assets' are on the 1TB hard drive. The still images are exported from my various Aperture libraries - as jpegs of the size mentioned above (and into a newly created folder) . Same with video - to Apple's recommendations for video replay on iPads.
So far I have kept and used the actual iBook Author file - for the new book - on the desktop of my 250GB i7 Flash Drive.
But, as I reported in the other post, this soon caused me huge problems as my disk space was rapidly 'eaten up' by duplicate versions etc.
I am now considering using a separate, 1Tb Firewire External drive for the actual iBook Author file (with backup copies onto another 1TB drive) I am certain this will be slower than using my internal flash drive - but is this 'good practice?' Can it avoid the problems of all 'lost' storage space which caused me such hassles when using my flash drive? Or, will this be minimised if I create separate iBooks from separate chapters?
And, delete uneccessary versions of course!
I do feel that this is an emerging issue which many will face - as we incorporate more and more rich media into our iBooks.
Any help or suggestions are gratefull received!

Thunderstorm played havoc with box from my ISP - and I am ruuning on a reserve and internet access flaky!
but, here goes with one reply. Will have to wait later re tests for your other suggestions when weather calmed down
Re 'as Apple suggessted' I should have said - no larger than 5000 x 5000 pixels (the 3240 was my vertical proportional dimension from choosing 5000 horizintal dimension)
this is from Ibooks Author help
Add and edit photos and other images
You can add a photo or other image (in a supported file type) to a page in your book by dragging the photo from theMedia Browser, the Finder, or another application.
After adding a photo to your book and positioning it on the page, you can use the tools in iBooks Author to mask (crop) the photo; change its brightness, contrast, and other image qualities; or erase its background.
Important: When you export your book for distribution outside the iBookstore, images are automatically scaled to a width of 2048 pixels, which is optimized for iPad with Retina display. Readers can view these images on other iPad models, but the viewing experience might be slower. You can improve the viewing experience on iPad models without Retina display by using images no wider than 1024 pixels.
ShowMask (crop) a photo
ShowChange a photo’s brightness, contrast, and other settings
ShowRemove the background or unwanted elements from a photo
Important: Images can’t be larger than 25 megapixels (5000 x 5000 pixels) or 50 MB.
SEE ALSO
Add an accessibility description to an object
Add a title, label, or caption to an object
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Photos Do Not Appear When Dragged Into Ibooks Author

I formatted my images to 72 DPI .png files and when i drag and drop them into Ibooks Author I can see them, I can manipulate them, resize, add captions. When I do a test the images appear in the text view portriat mode of the Ipad but when in the landscape mode, the images do not appear. There is just a blank space with a caption. If I create a photo widget and drop the photo inside I am able to see it on the Ipad however that widget does not allow me to resize as I would like. Does anyone have a fix for this issue or an idea?
Thanks
Chris A.

Confirm your process here:
Optimizing performance in your iBooks Author books
...and try jpg for photos instead of png.
And remember - layout in landscape...edit in portrait. Always delete a placeholder image before adding your own.

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