Image quality in ePub exports from Pages

Something changed in ePub exports of images recently, or in iBooks' rendering of them. Now they are fuzzy when double-tapped and enlarged. Originally (at beginning of iBooks) they popped up looking quite crisp.
Oddly, I can still get crisp images with double-tap if I export an ePub file from Scrivener, and import it into iBooks—using the same images I'm used in Pages.
Does this make any sense? Have others noticed this change in image quality?

Just for the sake of clearness - InDesign 5.0 = InDesign CS3
InDesign CS5 = InDesign 7.0.x
I suppose you are talking about InDesign CS5 and not something older.

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I've added several videos (5) to my Pages 09 document that I'm using to export an ePub for an iBook. I've adjusted each to show a unique poster frame using the Inspector. After export and sync to my iPad and iPhone, the video placeholders with their poster frames display fine. However, when I tap any of the videos to play, they all play the content of the first video.
For example, these are the five videos in the order they appear throughout the book (Pages document):
1.) How to shoot
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3.) How to import image files into Aperture
4.) How to apply image adjustments to a photo
5.) How to apply brush adjustments to a photo
Each of these look like the correct video because the poster frame shows the correct content. But when I tap to any of the five, the video that plays is the first, How To Shoot.
I've tried different methods of adding the videos (dragging, using the Media panel, using Insert from the menu), different video file types (.m4v - which I used in my multitouch textbook with iBooks Author), .mov), different dimensions on the pages, spreading the videos out over several chapters (to avoid any size limits as there are with images), using poster frames and not using poster frames, etc. Nothing seems to work.
What's more frustrating is I've spent the better part of the day searching to web, only to find I seem to be the only one experiencing this problem.
I didn't know if anyone else has experienced this problem - and if so, what they did to correct it.
Thanks for any help.
MacBook Pro 2009
OS X 10.7.4
Pages 09 4.2 from Apple App Store
iBooks 2 (2.1.1)
iOS 5.1.1 (iPhone 4, iPad 2)

Without having created any epub documents I still will try to answer. Two things hits me and they are Size of video and naming of the videos.
For images the size can't be more than 11 Mb in one chapter, that might be the same for videos.
Make sure you have different names on the videos.

EPub export from Pages crashes iBooks on iPad

I HAD been having great success with the new version of Pages in exporting a fairly large (128 page) document as ePub for the iPad. The ePub is only 2.8MB.
Then... after making some changes to content (formatting, etc) all of a sudden iBooks crashes instantly when trying to open the ePub document.
Calibre still opens it fine on my laptop!!!!!
I have rebooted the iPad, installed new version of iBooks, synced the iPad... no help.
I can find the crash logs
*Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)*
*Exception Codes: 0x00000000, 0x00000000*
*Crashed Thread: 0*
but have had no luck figuring out what change I made that is causing iBooks to crash.
(In another thread somebody from Apple said to EMAIL THE CRASH LOGS... but I don't know WHERE to email the crash logs)
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If you only have them in the iBooks app then you can't upload them to a website, iBooks doesn't have that option.
Is your company computer the computer that you normally sync the iPad to ? If it is then you can connect the iPad to it and do File > Devices > Transfer Purchases (that should copy PDFs and/or epubs that are in the iBooks app, not just actual ibooks) to copy them over to the Books part of its iTunes library.

How to improve quality of pdfs when exporting from pages?

how to improve quality of pdfs when exporting from pages? Any suggestions?

Print to pdf and don't use anything with transparency.
Have you ensured all your images are actually high enough resolution for whatever purpose (which you haven't said) you want?
Peter

Export from Pages to ePub??

Help! I need to export from Pages to epub. I've read the tutorial a hundred times and it says that when you click on "export" one of the options should be epub. However, my only options are pdf, word, or rtf. What am I doing wrong?

If your admin bought the iWork package as a DVD, Pages '09 version 4.0.3 is really the late version available on this media.
As fruhulda wrote, you must get and apply an updater (maybe you must ask the admin to do that, I know that some of them are a bit picky).
PS, since last wednesday, the best Apple tool to create ePub is the free iBooks Author.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 22 janvier 2012
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2
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EPub exported from ID CS6

This concerns ePubs exported from ID CS 6. The idea of reflowable text is that if you change the window size, the text will reflow to fill in the new dimensions of the window. But I notice this is not true with the toc. Looking at the ePub in Adobe Digital Editions, if I drag the right side of the window to the left, the text reflows, but the list in the toc just gets covered up. Shouldn't the toc reflow also?

Having said that, the reflowable part of an ePub refers to the actual
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A warning re exporting from Pages to Word

I am glad for germantownmark (on 4th February) that he was able to resolve the exporting of a Pages document to Word and that in the event he did not need Fruhulda's help.
However, I wish to point out that Exporting from Pages is not necessarily always successful.
In particular the exporting of MathType expressions is as yet unsuccessful. Although the main text will be OK the MathType will appear a seeming miles above the line of text. Which is unacceptable.
(An "Export Warning" first appears which contains the words "Exported Math Type Equations can't be edited". And then one can see the outcome for oneself when the resulting Word document is opened...)
I became aware of this problem ages ago and notified Apple Support - and have been given a case number for it. But so far there has been no update of Pages which eliminates this problem.
NB Because MathType is also accessible elsewhere in iWork09 such an update should be across the board.
Bruce's son

Bruce's son wrote:
I am glad for germantownmark (on 4th February) that he was able to resolve the exporting of a Pages document to Word and that in the event he did not need Fruhulda's help.
However, I wish to point out that Exporting from Pages is not necessarily always successful.
In particular the exporting of MathType expressions is as yet unsuccessful. Although the main text will be OK the MathType will appear a seeming miles above the line of text. Which is unacceptable.
Why is it unacceptable ?
Apple never stated that exporting Pages to Word will give an exact replicate of the original.
They just stated that you may export, no lees, no more.
It's time to learn the meaning of advertisement language.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 5 février 2011 15:37:38

MS Word spellcheck goes crazy after export from Pages

I exported two long documents (250 pages each) from Pages 5.0 to Word (.docx) format. When I open the documents in Word for Mac 2011 everything seems fine – until the spellcheck runs. It comes up with hundreds of false positives.
For instance, the following words are all marked as misspelled: if, understanding, wasn't, isn't, student, – and so on and so on, throughout the whole document. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it.
Previous to export I had checked spelling in Pages. So there shouldn't have been any misspelled words at all, let alone all these crazy false positives.
Has anybody experienced this? Has anyone got any advice on how to fix this? I know I can just turn off spellchecking in the Word documents, but I'd like to keep it on.
I'm running OS X Mavericks (10.9) on a mid 2012 MacBook Pro.
Thanks.

I know what you mean, fruhulda. But MS Word is working just fine with all my other documents that weren't exported from Pages.
It makes me wonder if there is something underying the text when the files are exported, something that is throwing off the MS Word spell checker.
My next test will be to export to text then open in Word. (My documents have very little formatting.) If spellcheck works fine then, I'm forced to wonder whether something about the export process from Pages to Word is problemmatic, or at least problemmatic for Word. But exporting to Word is the whole point, so there shoulnd't be these issues.
In other words, how can you have a feature that claims to export to Word that can't handle something as basic as spell check?
My documents (books) ultimately need to reside in Word so the publisher can work with them. I like working in Pages. It feels cleaner than Word. So I work in Pages and then export. But with this problem I'm seriously considering whether I shouldn't just write in Word from the start and avoid the problems that can come with exports. Somehow I feel like there are bound to be more.

The file "Acceptance Letter.pages" doesn't exist. Since installing Yosemite on MacBook Pro I cannot save or export from Pages. Just get the message at beginning of this post. How to solve problem?

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Thanks Peter but I was not seeking to store with I-Cloud. In fact I never store documents with I-cloud.
I was in fact trying to store the files to Documents, which is where I usually keep such things.
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Despite the above, even once it is titled and saved in Documents then if I reopen it I still cannot then Export it to a Word or PDF file. I still just get the message . xxxxxx.pages does not exist!
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Hope this is the right forum.
Question about exporting images from Pages to ePub: What does the following comment mean?
Images beyond the 11MB of un-encoded image data allocation per chapter.
1. Does "images" mean total number in chapter? Or is the 11MB per image?
2. What is "un-encoded image data" please?
Thanks.

I asked the above question because I am writing a book with many pictures, and the exported ePub files for one particular chapter stop including pictures after a certain point.
However, that point is much beyond 11MB. The pics average 600KB, and it includes 45 of them (about 27MB) before stopping.
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I have several framemaker pages I want to save as html pages.
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Framemaker may not be the best tool to produce html pages but I also need to produce a PDF version of these pages...:-/
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Can't crop PDFs exported from Pages anymore

Dear all,
first of all: I'm aware that the issue is not truely a Pages one, but it's related and I think the right people for an answer follow this forum.
Short history: All starts with the problem that Pages somehow defines a minimal page size, often larger than the figures I'm creating for my thesis are. The usual workflow so far was: Export to PDF from the Pages print dialogue; open resulting PDF in Preview; make and copy the figure part; in Preview create new PDF from clipboard.
Recently, I switched to using the Abracadabra quartz filters to export PDFs from Pages, to get better quality shadows, which seems to work fine. However, now the above workflow does not work anymore. After copying the selection in the resulting PDF, the new PDF from clipboard still has the same paper dimensions as the original, not as the selection. I also tried Skim in any way, no success so far.
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creating for my thesis
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Poor quality of PNGs exported from Illustrator, in documents that are then PDF'd

Hi All,
This is a strange one, which has taken up a lot of time to try to solve.
I crreated a package of variants on the company logo and exported them from Illustrator as PNGs. I even tried them at 150dpi - then 600dpi.
When I put them into MS Word or Apache Open Office documents they look perfect: sharp, crisp, perfect curves. Hurrah!
However, when I export those text documents as PDFs from MS Word or Open Office, the logos look terrible and ragged.
I have all the settings correct when I export as PDF - lossless compression, print quality etc. If the logos are SVG images [vector], they are perfect PDF'd from Open Office but I can't use those in MS Office. Aggh!
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johnivanwhite wrote:
Hi John M,
Microsoft .WMF format. [.WTF?] is pretty good in the resultant PDF. However, when you zoom in to the PDF, the curves get a bit rounded-polygonal, in a smooth-bumpy way. Odd - not a huge issue unless people zoom in. However, it is evident if they print it. And they will.
Right. What you're seeing there is the Windows Metafile format's lack of support for bezier curves. Close inspection reveals curves that are made up of many small straight line segments.
However...
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To demonstrate; I made a small circle in Illustrator with a black stroke and yellow fill.
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2. I copied from Illustrator and used Paste Special > Enhanced Metafile in Word, then exported to PDF
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