Working with ibooks Author

Hey guys. I've recently been doing some work with ibooks Author. I'm not sure if this is the subreddit to post my question to, so sorry if its not. My question is: How do you string a video across multiple pages within the document. I'm trying not to bloat my file size with extra videos if there is away to run one in the background. Thanks!

Page by page is it - no backgrounding as you require.
When a user navigates to another page, assets such as your example are then ignored for, and replaced by, assets on the next.
See Optimizing performance in your iBooks Author books. Note too that iBA will optimize video assets.
If your content is such that you risk exceeding the 2GB limit, consider publishing a series of editions, instead.

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HT5071 Can I publish my work produced with iBooks Author and make it available (free of charge) for my students only?

Can I publish my work produced with iBooks Author and make it available (free of charge) for my students only?

Yes. Put it on your own server, and/or send it out via email.

Mathtype 6.7e not working in iBooks Author 2.1

Is anyone else having trouble inserting Mathtype equations in the latest update of iBooks Author. I can't even edit my previous equations. I also have updated to Mavericks so that could be the problem too. I have the latest version of Mathtype that will work on the mac.

Mr. Mathtype,
I am having a very similar problem with MathType and iBooks Author. Here is a rundown of what happens. My system is currently running the Mavericks OS with iBooks Author 2.1.
- When I double click to edit an existing equation a new MathType window is opened titled Untitled X (with X being the iteration of the windor, rather than the normal title you get "Equation from iBooks Author"). This window is blank, it does not contain the text from the equation that I am supposedly editing. If I type anything into this window and then attempt to close, I am asked if I want to save changes.
- When I try to insert a new equation I do get a MathType window to open titled "Equation from iBooks Author" but no matter what I type into this window, when I close it, no equation is inserted into my iBooks Author file. I have tried this on existing books that I have built as well as brand new books started from Apple's generic templates.
However, your fix of opening MathType before iBooks Author seems to have resolved the issue. Just figured I would chime in to help you troubleshoot the issue.

HT5213 Can you publish to iPhone with iBooks Author?

Can you publish to iPhone with iBooks Author?

No, sorry.
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Use Pages, InDesign, etc. to generate a standard epub that will work on both iPhone and iPad if that is your goal.

Help saving my progress with iBooks Author

I am having trouble to save my work on iBooks Author. Every time I add something to the text or edit it content the computer automatically saves another copy of the same text with the changes or corrections. Just to give you an idea I am working on the first chapter and so far there's seven copies of this chapter on my documents. This is my first time with iMac and I guess I am doing something wrong. Used to Windows I always keep only one document every time I do changes on it. Please help. I will appreciate your reponse.

I'm having the same "problem". I don't know if it's a workflow thing or what but when I hit CMD+S I get a duplicate of the original file. I do not get a third, fourth, etc. duplicate with each subsequent CMD+S. Only two copies seem to remain: originalfilename and originalfilename~.
I also tried just closing without saving and still get a duplicate file (both files contain the changes I've made).
Same thing goes for Save A Version.
Maybe it's not a "problem" but something that Apple has yet to document? I've just been deleting the duplicate whenever it pops up as the original file contains all of my changes.
*shrug*

Producing short history lessons with iBooks author?

For years I have produced history lessons and provided them as free PDFs on my website. I'd like to offer short history lessons (with primary historic documents and images) via iBooks in iTunes U. I expect them to run only 10-12 pages.
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Hank Feng's "Earth and Moon" and the new Biosphere book are very short but will serve you well as examples. I am working on 2 page teaching models for the UN's Girl Education in Conflict-Zone program so its not about quantitiy but "quality" as we instructional design professor always tell our students.

HT3775 Using .flv files with iBooks Author

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My solution may not be the most technical but it works. We use a combination of iWeb, dreamweaver and straight code on our site. We lay a graphic in where the flash is going to go then we replace the code with the flash player. You have to make sure the flash is in a div and is identified as a object.
http://www.them-us.com/SVint.html
http://www.them-us.com/Reality.html

How to make turning page with ibooks author?

How to make turning page with ibooks author?

This question has been answered on this thread
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17981772#17981772#17981772
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How do I browse the whole list of Made with iBooks Author?

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Is the way of browsing disappeared, or changed?
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After the major update of iTunes for mac, It just disappeared
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Pull down View > Show Sidebar.

HT5071 I am putting together a book with iBooks Author and all of my pages are numbered (3) how can I change them to an acceding order starting with page one?

I am putting together a book with iBooks Author and all of my pages are numbered (3) how can I change them to an acceding order starting with page one?

Sorry I didn't get the tip link right: Change page number style

Does the iPad 1 support ibooks made with ibooks author?

Well, i'm planning on buying an ipad 1 because is still capable and is cheaper than the 2 right now, and something wich is very frustrating for me is, do some apps are still fully compatible? as the title say's, the new books made with ibooks author are compatible?

With the current software ..books created using iBooks Author cannot be viewed on iPhones.
iBooks Author creates books that can only...be used with iPads and on Macs with Mavericks installed, by using iBooks.
Thats it...no rumours. Blogs or to be more accurate...some of those who contribute to them seem to either be totally stupid, or like to make themselves look as if they have inside knowledge.
Apple created iBooks Author to allow self publishers create and publish books to the store. But not just novels or text only type books. iBA made these books allow audio / video ..and much much more than any novel. That being so....most interactive multi media books will not really display well on a screen the size if the iPhone.
Apple are more concerned in getting iPads in use more by business and education at all levels.
The only rumour that may well become fact is a larger sized screen for a bigger iPad mid to late 2014.

Trying to upload my ibook crafted with ibook-author but since I have two iTunes accounts, I keep getting a message that another person (me) is trying to use my tax id to distribute my book. Anyway out of this jam? The iTunes folks seem lost on this too

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In terms of control over this issue, the ranking is thus...
iTune folks
You
us/anyone else.
We can't do anything but prompt you to interact with Apple.

Does handoff not work with iBooks?

Just starting to get used to using handoff and really enjoying the ability to continue work from one device to another seamlessly. But it doesn't appear to work with iBooks. Is that the case or am I doing something wrong?
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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!

Bookmarks not working in iBooks author

I am unable to create a bookmark in iBooks author. The “+”-sign in the bookmarks pane of the inspector is faded/unclickable when I select an element on one of the pages (figure, text box, image etc.). I have been reading up on solutions and workarounds, but have yet to find one that works.
I have chapters, sections, and pages in my book but cannot add bookmarks to any of these. I am using the “Photo book”-layout, could this be the problem?
I’d really appreciate any help I can get on this problem, thanks.

I finally managed to find a workaround for this, which I thought I'd share since I know a lot of others are struggling with this too.
In my case, I'm working with a photo book style template, with full sized background images on every page. I wanted to link from one page to the next, but as mentioned, I was unable to create bookmarks on any of the pages of my book.
What I found worked was selecting one of my large background images, then going to the "Widget inspector" (farthest right in the inspector panel), selecting the "Layout" tab and checking "title" and in the label dropdown selecting "Figure". By doing so, I'm defining my image as a figure. I can then select a portion of text on another page, go to the hyperlinks panel in the inspector and in the drop down menu specify that I want to link to a figure, my image then appears in the figure list and I can click to link to it.
Now, this led to a second problem - changing the hyperlink color (predefined as underlined light blue). This is yet another (of many) bugs in iBooks author. I found a way to solve this too; open the Styles Drawer (select it from the "View" menu on the top left of the formatting toolbar). Select the text you want to format (in this case your hyperlink). Click on the little arrow next to the "Figure reference" style (which is the defined style on the text link) and choose "Create character style from selection". In the pop-up that opens, click on "Include these character attributes" and at the bottom left, click on "Select Overrides", then uncheck the overrides for underline and color. Click on OK (I find that you need to have at least one character attribute checked in order to be able to click OK so make sure you have the font and size checked). Now you've created a new formatting style that you can apply to all your hyperlinks but it won't look like you've done anything in iBooks Author - you'll ned to preview the book to see your formatted text (yup, another bug...).
Let's hope Apple get these bugs fixed for the next version, and soon!

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