Im having trouble making bookmarks

Yes, this is the same in Pages (I've now found out). You can make a bookmark of text in the main layer of text in the "word processing" mode, but not at all in the "page layout" one.

Very disappointing. So, If you have a Section text field (as generated from a template), you can bookmark any word. However, no images, tables, text boxes, or text within text boxes.

Virtually useless if you ask me.

I don't think it's useless, you just have to accept its limitations and work around them. As an ePub book there's an expectation there'll be a text flow on the page. I don't see it as a major drama as you're most likely going to want to direct someone to some text. I agree it would be nice if it could be linked to a non-flow box, but I don't see it as a huge drama - it still lands you on the page you're aiming for.

I may have spoken too soon. I figured out how to make a bookmark on a page, as I said, and then I created a hyperlink from one page to that bookmark. However in Preview of the book, the hyperlink does not take me to the bookmark on the other page, it simply blinks.

What am I missing?

and a secondary question - have you found any control of the colors/format of the hyperlink?

Allison Sheridan

NosillaCast Mac Podcast

I had a breakthrough today. I figured out how to link from text on one page to an image on another page. This isn't bookmark linking but using label styles. I created a tutorial using ScreenSteps to walk people through it. Seems a dearth of tutorials so far!

I'm betting my link won't come through, so just in case go to podfeet . com and in the menu bar you'll see Tutorials. Click on that and pull down to "How to Link from Text to Image in iBooks Author".

Here's the link in case it works:

http://www.podfeet.com/wordpress/tutorials/how-to-link-from-text-to-image-in-ibo oks-author/

Allison Sheridan

NosillaCast Mac Podcast

You are correct.

If you can't add a bookmark (for the reasons stated in this thread), you can add an image or a textbox and place a label on it in the Widget tab of the inspector. You can then create a hyperlink to that object.

I recommend adding a textbox, defining a custom label and adding the label to the object, add the page number to the label area, make the entire textbox opaque, and finally move the textbox to the top of your page you want to link to pushing it up so you can't read the label. Once you do this, you have an invisible object on each page that you can link to.

Cheers!

Jim

I've just wasted hours trying to solve the bookmark problem. Thanks for your contribution James.

I wonder why this can't be like Word, when any word or phrase can be bookmarked and hyperlinks added?

My next problem is how to go back to where I've come from after using a hyperlink. Any suggestions welcome

I used this same solution and it does work in iBooks Author mode - but not in preview. Do you know if there is a special tap or text size that is necessary?

For instance:

I created a band of buttons (one image)

I created block images over each button

I assigned a hypertext link in each image using a 16 point text

Then I change opaqueness of text to 0

In iBooks Author - it "jumps" to the page of the hypertext link (which is to an image)

In Preview mode - it will sometimes jump, other times, pop-up window, other times, crashes!

Thanks for any help. KB

Just a note to the Apple staff that I hope is monitoring the discussions. The ability to do hyperlinks (either web or bookmarks) from within tables would be very helpful. For example, I use the glossary for more technical terms but have some annex tables with more general information that I want to link back to the text. Not doable, unless I reformat the table into regular text.

Seems like others would like some of this additional flexibility.

Andrew

Hi guys,

I'm trying to (re)generate hundred of crosslinks for my ebook for iPad about "Pro Tools" audio system (original in LaTeX, converted to HTML, imported on Word, published for Kindle in novembre 2012) and it seems to me that bookmarks are bugged: in portrait mode when i click on the link, I jump to the correct position, but in landscape mode (fixed layout) the book jumps on the wrong page, two pages before!

What to do?

Simone Corelli

About the bug depicted I have found a workaround: save, close the document, reopen it, send it again to the iPad.

My book "Pro Tools in One Hour (coffee break included)" is now on the italian store. Starting from first of february, worldwide available.

Simone Corelli

you can only bookmark text in a supplied body copy text box, in a section.

EXACT IT'S WORKS!

ive been having problems with hyperlinking too, they work on my first chapter page, link where ever i want but not anywhere else after that, even if i copy the linked text from the page i know does work onto another page still doesn't work. Any one else had this problem?

Hi,

Apple should have resolved this silly problem by now.

I really don't understand the delay.

It's been a pressing issue for a long, long time.

By the way:

Bookmarks & Hyperlinks are dead easy to apply when creating an ebook using:

Blurb.com

(As it should be!).

Regarding bookmarks. I have found that with the latest Pages that if I create a 'Table of contents' from my document then on clicking on the page number in the contents list that I am taken to that point in the document. It seems to work well with the type of work I am engaged in. Hope this helps.

Are you asking this in relations to Pages or iBooks Author? If its Pages it may be better to use its own discussion group.

This works with iBooks Author.

Select an appropriate piece of text somewhere:

+Inspector > Hyperlink > Bookmark > click on the little plus sign+