Does Pages support Java script?

Viking - thanks for your help. I am trying to make the best Apple Book in the world. I have a feature film that I want to make interactive and sell on the Apple Book Store. In the past, I have used iBook Author for supply interactivity to my eBooks that are well beyond the interactive capability of Pages. However - since iBook Author is not being updated, it's crashing all of the time. It seems that Apple went after the open ePUB format and that is OK. But, I only want my eBook to work on an Apple Product and I want it to have more interactive functions.

So, where do I find information about AppleScript and how I can implement it using Pages to be able to export it as an interactive ePUB file that will work with Apple Books?

I used to be an Apple evangelist - I made a book for Pearson Publishing called Dynamic Media - It was the first printed book that had a CDROM with it that matched page for page of the printed book. I used the Acrobat interactive PDF format - but the problem was with the video plugins to play the video. I told Adobe to buy Macromedia for the interactive flash format and then plug that into Adobe reader. They did. And then Jobs Killed the flash format so that the interactive eBook format would not be PDF. Then came iBook Author - a proprietary format that the major publishers would not use. So everyone settled on ePUB.

Now, what I think is currently going on inside Apple is that they want more interactive content for the iPAD. They will give a book publishers agreement to anyone. They take one third. You have to go to a film Aggregator to get on Apple TV - same with the music division. You can embed 2 gigs inside an Apple book. That's plenty of space to put a feature film inside the book. I have embedded a full length feature film inside one page of an Apple book using pages. Download the book - disconnect from the internet and off you go to watch a feature film inside an iPAD. Apple is really good with paying.

It's extremely hard to get an independent feature film on Apple TV. But it's super simple to get that exact same film inside an eBook. I mirror the iPad to my Apple TV and it looks amazing. And Apple pays you directly every month. The fact that they force the film producers and the music producers to go to a third party to get a title on an Apple playback device - but you can go directly to Apple to get a book deal. That says something...

And Pages interfaces directly to the Apple book store to package it. You could put an entire album of music and lots of music videos and artwork - ( record jackets) inside of an interactive book - and Apple pays you directly. You could put a feature film with the all of the making of stuff inside an interactive book and Apple pays you directly. But few people in the world know that this is possible!!!!! That is what Steve Jobs wanted for the iPAD. Interactive Books with QuickTime.....

So - I am going to attempt to make the most impressive interactive movie Book that Apple has ever seen. And then ask them to add some simple tools to make interactivity a bit more friendly - while staying inside the ePUB format. Something so simple would be to have alternate ICONS for audio. That link tool should be able to highlight a word or graphic and then activate some sound or video or pop up a graphic. You can create a page and then copy that page with an added graphic or video and then use a button to link to that page. It will simulate a popup if all of the graphics are in register. However - where do you put that page? At the end of the book? When the user gets to that page - if they swipe to the next page they will be lost at the end of the book. You then have to put in a graphic - Click Here to go to the next page or back to where you came from - which then sends you back to where you came from.

However - I have found that you can embed several audio files into one page and they all keep working. If you select one that is music - the music begins to play. You can then select a narration and that narration will play over it. Same with the video - you can play music and then play a video animation. You could have an Audio book that plays the looping music (that unfortunately) dies when you turn the page - while you read the text, or click the narration button and have the narration describe the picture that you are looking at.

So while the interactive features of Pages are poor - the graphics and the engine to present the audio and video is superb. It will be up to the video producers and the story tellers to make the production compelling not the interactive functions. Just imagine a future where AI can take a textbook story line and produce a QuickTime movie from this....the perfect playback medium is inside an interactive book. People that write books will become movie producers - and sell their content from the Apple Book Store.....and get paid every month......