Preview Update Bug? (+ iBooks 2 textbook font options)

Two related questions:
1) Is anyone else getting a situation where after you preview your book several times (10 or more in a session), if you change the master chapter or section layout, at some point the previewed text gets really small? I am trying 14-18 pt font sizes in the body text and when previewed on the iPad (2 or 3) it looks closer to 10pt. I have tried clearing the previewed book off my iPads, disconnecting and re-connecting, changing the fonts again, saving and then previewing but I can't get the body text to look anything close to the size I've created.
2) ...which leads me to: I don't see any options in iBooks 2 for users of iBA books to change the font size. Is this what everyone else sees or do you have font sizing options like in regular (ePub) iBooks?
My understanding is we're creating "fixed font" layouts with this app so whatever we preview it at and then publish it, that's what the reader will see (and without option of changing the font size). Is this correct?
Thanks in advance for any insights.

Sorry, I haven't experienced your other problem myself. I would try
deleting your book from iBooks
killing ibooks and restarting it, before and after deletion of your book
exporting to .iBook and loading the book via iTunes instead of preview
There are definitely some caching issues with preview that I've noticed previously. While I was working on my book, I'd quite often go through new material on my iPad and using the Notes feature to mark it up with corrections, then later transferring the corrections back to the source document.
When previewing the new version, the notes would disappear but then later reappear, often attached to a slightly different part of the text. Sometimes, I'd suddenly see a note that I had attached two or three revisions ago. It seems that deleting a book or updating it via preview doesn't completely clean out everything that was there before, so I would work on that angle with your problem.
Michi.

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What a waste of space to paste the code.
Why not ask in the iLife > iPhoto forum where your question belongs.

Another preview related bug???

Recently I reported an issue (bug) with preview and
non-auto-update variable. See
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=65&catid=449&threadid =1364202&enterthread=y
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- I update text within the body of a topic (I DO NOT toch
header/footer that are set in template)
- Do a preview
- Close/save topic
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"This topic was created from a template and the header of
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What would you like to do:
- Apply this modification to all topics created from the
template
- Apply this modification to this topic only"
Again, I never touched header/footer.
Can anyone using 7.0.2 confirm this behavior?
Herman

> See if this helps. Suggests turning off auto update.
This doesn't help because a preview updates the date
variable, even when auto update is set to off. When the topic is
not edited, RH doesn't prompt to save the topic and consequently
the updated date isn't saved . With edits, save dialog comes up and
additionally header/footer dialog because date in footer has
changed.
See also my earlier post here:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=65&catid=449&threadid =1364202&enterthread=y
Secondly, I really need it on auto because I'm running
everything through batch files
I think that we need an option like Colum McAndrew described
in the thread you're referring to. An option not to update a
template variable when applied to a topic, or when previewing a
topic.
Herman

View count AND thread update bug?

It's the end of the year, so that might be the reason of this oddity, but here is my problem:
I just posted a comment to this thread and returned to my profile page to just realize that somebody had already posted a comment. I went back to the thread and did not find anyhting new, so I went back to my profile...just to discover that a new post had just been added to the thread (and the view count had been incremented).
Long story made short, at each iteration of this procedure, the view count goes up by 1 and the thread keep appearing as updated, when it is not. I tried that on Chrome and IE8, same thing.
The interesting thing is that this does not happen for another thread (I just posted in this one too and repeated the above sequence and did not see the thread update bug happen, however, the view count increases each time I go back to the thread).
To me the thread activity being stuck IS a bug. The view count being incremented each time the original poster displays the thread is debatable. I guess strictly speaking it is the correct behavior and what would be an intersting additional information would be the number of VIEWERS...

Hmm, I think I understood what is happening: for some reason, I must have failed to read ALL the posts in those threads (very likely in the case of the first one I mentioned, as it is 10 pages long, but I was under the impression I had followed the second one quite closely). I can only see that if I click on the "View All" link at the bottom of the panel showing my recent posts:
Then the list that shows up indicates the number of NEW posts. This is a misnomer in the sense that generally those posts can be be anterior to the one you posted, so there are not "new" rather just "unread". I may be mistaken, but in the case of the second thread I mentioned, I think that what I may have not checked out AGAIN is the response that was labeled as "answer" by the original poster (but I thought I did though). It is only when I went through all pages (without reading anything, of course) that the thread lost its "highlighted" status.
Anyhow, here it the suggestions I would have:
- introduce a new "unread" post column (in addition to the "new" one).
- offer an option to "mark thread/topic as read" (so that you don't have to go through 20+ pages of a thread to deactivate it)
Sorry for the misunderstanding.

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Content (apps, music, ibooks, films etc) is tied to the account that originally downloaded it, so if the iBooks app was downloaded using the account that you used to share with your ex then only that account can download updates to it. As it's a free app you could delete it and re-download it under your own account - and then re-download your ibooks into it (or copy the books to your computer's iTunes first via File > Transfer Purchases and then sync them back to the app).

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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3518760?tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2755090?tstart=0
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3482083?tstart=60
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3492588?tstart=60
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Right-click the file you've selected and point the mouse cursor to Open With...
In the Open With... menu, select which application you want to open with the file, then select iBooks.
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While creating preview from scratch is rather swift, updating previews takes about six minutes on a MacBook Pro retina with 16Gb RAM.
After one minute the preview gets updated, but then the busy signal in the low left corner just keeps turning and turning for five more minutes.
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2. Image deleting is painfully slow.
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C. Pfaffenbichler, I was actually looking for a dedicated Bridge forum, but I couldn't see a Bridge icon.

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Your question begs more questions before an answer...
What are you trying to upgrade, and why would you try to use iTunes
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With at least a 1.0GHz iBook G4 you could run Leopard 10.5.8, and
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Update within that first earlier system...
If the computer does not have at least the minimum processor, it would
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http://www.apple.com/support/leopard/
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If your computer does not have an iTunes version at all, you can go to
Apple support downloads and look at older iTunes, and older safari,
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Usually the upgrade path utilizes DVD media or CD media, for software
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To see if there may be anything not already installed in the system or
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upgrades) you may eventually be unable to upgrade then update an older
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and thought to use some software intended to run in Tiger 10.4.11, then
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vintage software, or a newer web browser, you have to look further. A fair
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Can someone make iBooks have the Option to view 2 pages in landscape mode so it can use up all the pixel real estate?
Apple usually does this for OSX and its great when compared to windows where it doesnt use up all the real estate for viewing applications like websites and pdf files but when it comes to iBooks, it feels like there is no apple touch to it and is limited.
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Thanks!

Penguin, do you always insult people on here or was I just a special case?
If you read the statement carefully, which you obviously did not! I was speculating, and I did not say anything for certain about knowing or not knowing ...
I'm happy for the reply to the post and helpful link you posted to where I can leave some feedback for my post on an Apple monitored site but i rather you not reply if your gonna leave a snyde remark with every helpful comment.
Don't do it again. and Thanks for the help.

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