Page layout in Pages for iPad

Thanks Tom, that explains everything.

is there any chance that Pages on the iPad v.14 could “accept” Pages documents created on Pages version 5.2 on my Mac? Will loose all my software if I upgrade, the idea was to have one Apple product up to date, not to start from scratch. I know that is not Apple’s idea, though.

thanks a lot for your help,

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Tom, you mean that one couldnt design an iBook on the iPad, right? Because I published 3 picture iBooks and downloaded them to my iPad, that was the point of creating them - can read to kids at schools or library.

So in spite of how wonderful it is, the iPad is not a Mac.

thanks again,

manystories

Thanks again, Tom. This is a picture book with images that bleed on more than one side of the page. I don.t think Word even allows nonmargin images. Looks like the best solution is to upgrade my Mac, but that is a huge decision with many consequences. I bought this Mac specifically to upload my books to iBooks, first book in2015, and two in 2016. never dreamed that 6 years later the software would disappear. But then again, 6 years is an eternity in the computer world. Ive had 5 Macs since 1993, never upgraded. Too scary.

At any rate thank you very much for your very helpful answers, looks like I may be the only person who misses iBooks,

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Thank you Tom,

if we could still submit a book designed for iBooks, that would be heaven! This was going to be a set of 4 books, I wasnt able toget to the fourth on time, but have almost everything ready right now, would do a simpler version without sound just to complete the project.

Would you know who I can ask whether we can still upload a book to iBooks? I probably do not need Apple help if I follow the steps to upload the previous three. Just need to know before preparing the files, it.s still a lot of work (illustrations, bilingual copy, maybe ill skip the audio).

There were also some rumblings about converting iBooks books to Pages books, but with text that needs to NOT flow, widgets for sound all over the page, and a slightly different screen ratio, that seems like a recipe for disaster.

Although both iBooks and Pages are available for books which are mainly text as well as for image books, the truth is that they are mainly designed for the former. But image heavy books are very expensive to print, so here was a great alternative to have beautiful color, images without margins, the flipping feature, and our chance to see our work on screen, and perhaps sell a few. Apple is probably not thinking this way.

Thanks again for all your super useful information,

manystories

Thank you! Checked the book author community. Sounds like it could easily go wrong ... definitely not upgrading myMac, there are unexpected pitfalls at every step. Seems like the possibility to publish to iBooks with OS older than Catalina is still there, perhaps not possible to revise the book once its published, due to lack of support. But that would be fine. Hoping Apple eventually catches up or Im giving up.

thank you for guiding me through all the challenges!

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