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Q: Support for viewing on a Mac - useful?

I've had about a dozen requests for a Mac version of my book in the week since it went live. I don't know how useful this might be for others, but it seems like it would be pretty easy for Apple to implement. I'll be making a feature request, but I'm curious if other people think this could be useful and expand the market a bit.

Posted on May 11, 2012 10:27 PM

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  • by MichiHenning,

    MichiHenning MichiHenning May 14, 2012 4:15 PM in response to soulhill
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    May 14, 2012 4:15 PM in response to soulhill

    soulhill wrote:

     

    If the question is portability, the answer is... don't master in iBA.

    But, alas, I have. The PDF exports with the layout in tact, which is nice, but I'm not really sure what to do with it from there...

    Depending on how much layout and fancy features you have used, another viable option might be to remaster in Pages and export as ePub. You won't get any interactive features that way. (You can embed video, but the video will currently be viewable only on an iPad or iPhone.)

     

    The advantage of doing this is that it opens up other publishing platforms, such Google Books.

     

    Michi.

  • by soulhill,

    soulhill soulhill May 14, 2012 4:43 PM in response to MichiHenning
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    May 14, 2012 4:43 PM in response to MichiHenning

    I understand that other ePub's don't support the level of interactivity that iBooks Author does. If I am going to to the trouble to remaster, though, I might as well use inDesign or some other application with the broadest selection of output options.

  • by MichiHenning,

    MichiHenning MichiHenning May 14, 2012 5:10 PM in response to soulhill
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    May 14, 2012 5:10 PM in response to soulhill

    soulhill wrote:

     

    If I am going to to the trouble to remaster, though, I might as well use inDesign or some other application with the broadest selection of output options.

    Yes, if you have InDesign (and the skills to use it), that's the more flexible option. I suggested Pages mainly because it about as easy to use as IBA.

     

    Michi.

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