IBooks Author Export

Do the iBooks Author files exported to PDF retain their interactivity?

I tried this the other day and seem to think no.
Videos did not work. The iBooks videos are m4v, but Adobe uses flash video in pdfs.
My test 3D obect was just a still in the .pdf
Just re-exported and my Image widget and review widget did not work either. I think that may be too much functionality for a .pdf?

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IBooks Author: in exported file, one page loads very slowly...

iBooks Author: in exported file, one page loads very slowly and drags when scrolling through pages, almost stopping the scroll. I have never seen this problem before with photo pages. Normally they scroll just as smoothly as text pages.
I have tried rebuilding the page with more compressed files to no avail. The image files used on the page are not any bigger than others I have used previously without any problem.
I have tried restarting my iBook.
I am using a template that I have modified quite a bit. The templates currently offered by Apple and third parties are not even close to what I am looking for in terms of layout, so I have to rip almost everything out of the page and start with a blank page, most of the time. I tried modyfying the layouts to save time and then saved as a new template. Apple really needs to add a module to create your own template at the beginning of a project. Or they need to create one very open template, without much on the pages.

I finally solved the problem by using an unmodified template. I would still like to know how my modifications to the other template caused the problem, but for now it remains a mystery. Thanks for your ideas.
Next I will try modifying the template without saving it as a template (merely saving it as a file) to see if I can get away with my modifications. Also I will make fewer modifications.
Slowly but surely I am learning this program by trial and error. Each time I try a few formatting variations, output an iBooks file, and open it on my iPad. I have probably done 20 of these tests, so far. Once I work out every detail of the design and structure, I will build the final book. I am lucky to have a beautiful PDF of the hardcover version, generously provided by my publisher. This not only sets a high bar for me, but also allows me to use some of their design elements via screen capture.
iBooks Author has great potential, but I along way to go to get there. One feature I would really like to see in the next update: the ability to add a hidden caption to a photo. The reader would tap the image and the caption would appear. Tap again and it disappears.

Export portrait view of landscape iBooks Author file?

I'm working with a template in iBooks Author that is landscape layout. I enabled the portrait view (in Inspector > Document). When I preview my book on iPad it flips to portrait orientation -- changes to pure scrolling, images moved to sides of text, etc. -- exactly as it should.
I want to know if I can export this portrait view (which I can only see on the iPad) as a PDF, or if I'm limited to exporting the landscape view (which is how I work with the file / how my template is set up in iBooks Author).
I'm pretty sure the answer is the latter, but want to be 100% sure -- matters a lot for the project I'm working on. Haven't been able to find a definitive answer here.
Thanks!

iBooks Author has two (2) options which can be combined or separated.
You can choose to disable portrait mode and create your book in landscape only. If you export that to PDF.. it will either show in landscape or you can change in Acrobat or whatever PDF viewer you use.
IF you want to stay with a Portrait layout... then as previously advised, select a Portrait book template and edit your content to suite.
IF you want to have both options - then you have to create your content to suit the mode you wish to see it viewed. The top menu allows you to choose which orientation mode is viewed.
It take a little experience or patience to create a book using both modes and to be honest , I suggest that most "readers" of such books get confused and / or bored by having to change the iPad around to view.

Once an iBook has been exported to the iPad, how can that book be moved to a different iPad or back to iBooks Author?

Once an iBook has been exported to the iPad, how can that book be moved to a different iPad or back to iBooks Author?

You can't simply move it directly between iPads.
In your example, you'd find that .ibook file in your iTunes account on your computer and then email or sync it to the school's iPad. Similar to how you did with yours....maybe you got it off a server and can repeat that process.
Then delete it off your iPad and either delete or flag your copy in iTunes to not be put back when you sync in the future.

Write a book in pages; export to ibook author

Normally, I write a whole book in one pages for mac file. Now that I would like to import to iBook Author, I discovered that I have to import as one chapter per pages file.
Is there a way to write a whole book in one pages for mac file and able to export to ibook author without having to split the whole book into multiple files (one per chapter)?
In a sense, how do we inform ibook author that we have more than one chapter in one pages file?
Thanks,
Narin

What version of Pages?
You have Section Breaks or not?
Peter

IBooks Author - 'Your book couldn't be exported.'

After working on a project on iBooks Author for my medical school I finally try and export it to an iBooks file and I get the warning message:
'Your book couldn’t be exported. Verify that your destination disk isn’t full and that you have permission to write to it, then try again.'
I then try to export it to pdf and the file is empty, it is also unable to be previewed anymore, does anyone have any idea why this might be happening?
I have 12GB of space left on my hard drive and it is my laptop so the permissions should be fine.
Thanks in advance

Your computer but....are you working on a network at the school or in your home with your own net connection?
Networks have exclusions set by the IT department to prevent misuse.
A book exported to PDF , should show teh book content , albeit, slighty different to what your see in iBA or iBooks when previewed. Again, it if you are on a network, there may be issues.
Run a text with a default template saved from iBA and see what the result is.

Help! Having a problem exporting - iBooks Author tells me iTunes Producer is not installed, but it is... How do I fix this???

Hi,
I have finished a book, go through the "publish" process, it starts the export, but at the end gives me a warning message that iTunes Producer is not installed on my Mac, but it is, window open, logged in and all. The error message refers me to the iTunes page to download it, and that's that. I can't import the iBook file into the Producer (guess its not the right type of file).
I'm stuck! Help!
thanks
P

OsX Mountain lion 10.8.5, ibooks author 2.0 and producer 3.0
thx
P

I have set hyperlinks within my ibook author document, they work perfectly until i export and view on the ipad, when only one or none work, (hyperlinks to website not working at all) what am i doing wrong?

I have set hyperlinks within my ibook author document, they work perfectly until i export and view on the ipad, when only one or none work, (hyperlinks to website not working at all) what am i doing wrong?

An external hyperlink should handoff to Safari and leave iBooks.
If that's not happening, perhaps there is something misconfigured on your iPad? Have you manually confirmed those links work in Safari on your iPad?

I have written an ebook that has been created for kindle. How can I export the book into iBooks author?

I have written an ebook that has been created for kindle. How can I export the book into iBooks Author?
I have tried converting the book to different files like, mobi, epub, pdf. By using an app on my iphone.
I still cannot add it to iBooks Author.
I'm stuck, Please help me!

Either use copy/paste and then format/style as desired, or take it to Pages or WORD and insert chapters - which may still require resettling.
If you're looking for a 1:1 port, with all styles and layout intact, you may be dissapointed, tho.

IBooks Author: superscript not displaying after export to iPad / iPhone

superscript displays perfectly in iBooks Author on my Mac but reverts to normal baseline in iBooks on iOS. I have tried with different font — same problem. What could the problem be?

Thanks for your interest Tom.
Here is a screenshot from iBooks Author. Take note of the reference '3' at the end if the top right paragraph.
Here is the same page in iBooks on my iPad mini:
I have tried restarting iBooks on my iPad mini and I have tried it with iBooks on my wife's 3rd generation retina iPad.
Any other suggestions would be thoroughly apreciated.
Thanks

How do I update an iBook created in iBooks Author without losing old notes?

I have been creating an iBook using iBooks Author. I export it as an iBook that I can open in iBooks on my computer and on my iPad.
The challenge I am running into is that I highlight sections and make notes and want to keep those even as I add new content to the iBook. Is there a way to update an iBook on my computer and have it update the one in iBooks without losing everything I created before?
Thanks.

AFAIK, the update process that allows note/bookmark retention is currently only thru the store.

How to create Protein or Chemical structures in .pdb or .mol format for use with iBooks Author. Please help.

Dear Community,
There are a large variety of software packages used by Chemists and Biologists to view and manipulate Protein and Chemical structures in 3D. They typically have formats such as .pdb, or .mol. I have looked around and none of the software packages that I currently use allow me to export to the COLLADA (.dae) format.
Does anyone have any idea where to begin to allow me to do this. I would like to try and put in some of the 3D objects into the iBook Author program.
Thank you. Chase

I believe that Apple should have provided an easily way to get Pymol images into iBooks Author as VRML has been the de facto standard. After a number of days, I have a method which works, but this much effort should not be necessary. Anyway here it is.
1) Set the viewport in Pymol to 512,384 to do this in the command window type
viewport 512,384
Note, I'm not totally sure you need to do this.
2) Draw you image in Pymol and output the image in VRML format, to do that
File -> Save Image As -> VRML 2 ...
I'll assume that you have given the file the name "pymol_output", you actual get pymol_output.wrl
3) In a terminal window go to the folder where the above file is located and issue the following command. This removes some stuff that messes up the lightening
sed '9,15d' pymol_output.wrl > bender_in.wrl
4) Next you need blender. You can download it from
http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/
5) Open Blender. In the upper right corner in the Scene section
right click on Lamp and delete it
right click on Cube and delete it
right click on Camera and delete it
Save this file so you don't have to do this every time. I called mine empty_blender_file.blend
6) Either open empty_blender_file.blend or continue from #5 and read in the file from #3
File -> import->X3D Extensible 3D (.x3d/.wrl)
this reads in the file
7) Write out the file in collada .dae format
File->export->collada (.dae)
Done. This file will read into iBooks Author and have somewhat uniform lighting. By the way, .dae files can be opened an checked in Preview. Its easier than going back and forth into the iPad, since you can rotate the image in Preview.
Hope this helps, let me know if it works for you and if you have any suggestions.
Finally someone needs to write a one step VRML and X3D to collada converter that will work with PyMol and Chimera etc.
Have fun!

How do I set the margins for a book in ibook author

I am fairly new to Ibooks author and am having trouble figuring out how to set my margins to follow throughout the book. I am making the book in landscape mode and want the hardcopy version to be 11 x 8.5. I need the left margin to be set at 2.5 and no matter what I have done it skews the following pages. I will publish this online but since this is going to be a family history book, I am going to have to export it eventually to PDF and send it to a printer. Does anyone know how to change these settings?

Thank you. I just like the possibilities associated with Ibooks author. But I will do that and maybe later transfer that data to Ibooks.
Thanks again.

How can I import an ibook file back into iBook Author?

I exported an ebook from iBook Author thinking it is the equivalent of saving the file.
I did not save the file, I only exported it and than exited the program.
My active file is vannished.
I need to make some adjustments to the ebook, but can not bring it back up.
Is there a way that I can re-import the iBook file back into iBook Author?
When I open iBook Author and try to open the exported file the program does not recognise the ibook file...
Thanks for your help!

Check for previous versions of that book in iBA....even if not saved.
You can dig into the .ibooks file by changing the suffix to zip, but you'll have to manually extract what you can from assets you find. Please only do this with your own books.

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?

IBooks Author Export

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