iBooks Author For Dummies E-Book

Galen Gruman

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

Design and create your own e-book using the groundbreaking iBooks Author app

With Apple's iBooks Author app, you can create rich, interactive books for use on the iPad, and this new For Dummies handy portable guide shows you just how to do it. Whether you want to create textbooks, training materials, marketing reports, or awesome product manuals with dynamic content, this book takes you through the process. Plunge in, and you'll soon learn how to create an iPad e-book with all the bells and whistles, including video, interactive widgets, text, tables, figures, colors, cool fonts, and more.

• Helps educators, small publishers, trainers, authors, or entrepreneurs create their own e-books using the new iBooks Author software
• Covers the software as well as book-building basics, such as adding text, color, tables, and figures
• Shows you how to include dynamic content, like video, presentations, interactive widgets, charts, and web components
• Discusses publishing your iPad e-book to the iBookstore

iBooks Author For Dummies is what you need to get your book off the ground and into the hands of readers in a hurry!

Leseprobe

iBooks® Author For Dummies®

Visit dummies.com/cheatsheet/ibooksauthor to view this books’ cheat sheet.

Table of Contents

Introduction

What This Book Offers

What You Need to Use iBooks Author

Conventions Used in This Book

Mouse and trackpad conventions

Menu commands

Keyboard conventions

Gesture conventions

Mac interface terms

Icons in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Chapter 1: What iBooks Author Can Do for You

Comparing iBooks Author to Standard E-Books

Creating E-Books Like No Others

Dynamic interaction capabilities

Landscape and portrait views work very differently

Limitations on readers’ display controls

Chapter 2: Putting Together Your Book’s Building Blocks

Looking at the Containers in Your Book

Templates

Chapters

Layouts

Sections

Pages

Objects

Styles

Opening and Saving Templates and Book Files

Working with Layouts

Layout view controls

Layouts versus pages

Applying and modifying layouts

The Basics of Page and Layout Objects

Adding chapters, sections, and pages

Navigating pages and layouts

Adding objects to layouts and pages

Understanding inline, anchored, and floating objects

Introducing the Inspector

Specifying placeholders

Portrait versus Landscape Orientation

How pages differ

Where and when objects appear

Different user interfaces

Setting the Book Cover

Adding an Intro Video, Audio File, or Image

Previewing Your E-Book

Chapter 3: Working with Text

Working with Outside Text

Supported formats and methods

Issues with imported files’ styles

Recommended workflows

Applying Text Formatting

Character formatting

Paragraph formatting

Lists

Defining and Applying Styles

The three types of styles

The style drawer

Defining styles

Applying styles

Modifying styles and their tagged text

Deleting styles

Editing Text

Placeholder text

Cut, delete, copy, and paste

Search and replace

Proofreading your text

Special characters and invisibles

Laying Out Text

Setting columns, margins, and alignment

Flowing text

Chapter 4: Adding and Formatting Objects

Adding Objects

Text files

Graphics files

Spreadsheet files

Tables

Presentation files

Video, screencast, and audio files

HTML snippets

Formatting Objects

Working with colors

Setting object attributes

Applying Image Masks and Enhancements

Enhancing bitmapped images

Using the Instant Alpha feature

Masking images

Laying Out Objects

Sizing and positioning objects

Flipping and rotating objects

Grouping and locking objects

Setting text wrap

Setting Default Object Styles

Chapter 5: Working with Infographics

Adding Object Captions and Titles

Creating, Editing, and Formatting Charts

Working with data

Formatting charts

Creating, Editing, and Formatting Tables

Formatting tables

Formatting and editing columns and rows

Formatting and editing cells

Using functions

Working with Custom Values

Creating custom values

Applying custom values

Editing custom values

Using Shapes and Lines

Using predefined shapes

Drawing with the Pen tool

Editing shapes and paths

Chapter 6: Working with Interactive Elements

Image Galleries

Adding gallery images

Working with gallery images

Setting gallery navigation controls

Adjusting gallery captions

Interactive Images

Setting the default view

Understanding image views

Adding and setting image views

Adjusting callout display

3D Images

Videos and Audio Files

Keynote Presentations

Review Quizzes

Setting questions and answers

Controlling review display

Taking a quiz

Web Widgets

Options in iBooks Author

Creating a Dashcode widget

Chapter 7: Working with E-Book Metadata

Setting Document Metadata

Using Chapter and Section Titles

Inserting chapter and section metadata

Setting chapter and section metadata display options

Setting chapter and section numbering options

Applying Page Numbering

Using Cross-References and Hyperlinks

Working with cross-references

Working with web and e-mail hyperlinks

Editing hyperlinks

Removing and disabling hyperlinks

Creating Tables of Contents

Creating Glossaries

Adding glossary items

Adding glossary terms’ definitions

Editing and removing glossary terms

Finding glossary terms

Marking glossary terms

Chapter 8: Publishing and Distributing E-Books

Distributing outside the iBookstore

Distributing through the iBookstore

Setting up a publisher account

Prepping the e-book in iTunes Producer

Cheat Sheet

End User License Agreement

iBooks® Author For Dummies®

by Galen Gruman

iBooks® Author For Dummies®

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com

Copyright © 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

Published simultaneously in Canada

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About the Author

Galen Gruman has been doing production of newspapers, magazines, and books for about 35 years, having caught the layout and production bug from his junior high school newspaper. He was involved in one of the first desktop publishing efforts of a national publication in the early 1980s and has reviewed desktop publishing software for both InfoWorld (IDG Enterprise) and Macworld (Mac Publishing) until the late 1990s. Since 1990, he’s co-authored or written a series of how-to books for the publisher of this book, John Wiley & Sons, for most of the major layout programs of their eras: PageMaker, QuarkXPress, and InDesign. Gruman has also been doing some website coding and production over the last decade and has produced e-books for Wiley in the more recent years, in addition to his day job as the InfoWorld.com website’s executive editor. iBooks Author represents the next wave of publishing, so of course he had to learn — and teach — this tool, as well.

Publisher’s Acknowledgments

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Some of the people who helped bring this book to market include the following:

Acquisitions and Editorial

Project Editor: Laura K. Miller

Acquisitions Editor: Kyle Looper

Copy Editor: Laura K. Miller

Technical Editor: Dennis R. Cohen

Editorial Manager: Jodi Jensen

Editorial Assistant: Leslie Saxman

Sr. Editorial Assistant: Cherie Case

Cover Photo: © iStockphoto.com / ALEAIMAGE © iStockphoto.com / marinello

Interior Photos: Courtesy of Ingall W. Bulls, III

Composition Services

Senior Project Coordinator: Kristie Rees

Layout and Graphics: Joyce Haughey, Christin Swinford

Proofreader: Sossity R. Smith

Indexer: Valerie Haynes Perry

Publishing and Editorial for Technology Dummies

Richard Swadley, Vice President and Executive Group Publisher

Andy Cummings, Vice President and Publisher

Mary Bednarek, Executive Acquisitions Director

Mary C. Corder, Editorial Director

Publishing for Consumer Dummies

Kathleen Nebenhaus, Vice President and Executive Publisher

Composition Services

Debbie Stailey, Director of Composition Services

Introduction

An e-book is no longer just a book you read on a computer, tablet, smartphone, or e-reader. Thanks to Apple’s iBooks Author software, an e-book can be a dynamic experience, letting readers explore information through interactive graphics, audio and video recordings, slideshow presentations, and live web widgets (a snippet of web functionality, not a full website or web page).

Imagine children’s books that let readers explore the story and connect with other fans. Imagine a service manual that lets a technician get the most recent parts information and turn a 3D diagram around to get a better understanding of a potentially malfunctioning part. Imagine a financial report, a scientific paper, a how-to book, an encyclopedia, a documentary-style history book, or any other document exploring complex and changing information that could go beyond text and static images.

You don’t have to imagine such documents any longer. You can create them instead on your Mac with Apple’s free iBooks Author software and distribute them — for free or for money — to any iPad user, of which there are tens of millions.

But iBooks Author is a first-version product, and that lack of maturity clearly shows in some of the limitations and unintuitive approaches it has when it comes to creating that new kind of dynamic publication that makes iBooks Author so compelling. So users may need a guide to not just the possibilities, but also how to deal with the potholes in the road along the way.