I’m having trouble moving and deleting objects on some of the templates provided in iBooks Author. I can select them, but can’t move or delete them (specifically in the section and chapter pages). Any suggestions?
iBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Most likely they are locked. When selected, do the have Xs instead of white boxes? That's the giveaway. Select what you wantto delete and Unlock it from the Arrange menu.
http://www.box.com/files#/files/0/f/0/1/f_1594005539/0/comment
This is a link to a free generic, plain, nothing in it template I created. - Fabe
Select the elements and then from the menu, choose Arrange -> Unlock
The items are not locked. In fact, both options are grayed out in the “Arrange” menu item when the objects are selected. Perhaps some more details will be helpful. I’m using the “Yellow Chapter” templates from the basic program. The items only appear in the portrait orientation. The first is a graphic placeholder that appears in to the left of a text box in the bottom half of the “Chapter” and “Secton” page templates. When selected, it has circles not X’s as per the previous reply. The second object is the text box which behaves identically. The corresponding text box in the landscape orientation is editible
The items only appear in the portrait orientation.
Try editing in Landscape. What happens? - Fabe
In landscape, the text box is editable but the graphics placeholder doesn’t exist. The problem is that I want to move the text box in portrait to be flush left with the page/screen and can’t do it. It’s already flush left in landscape. I just want to get rid of the placeholder in portrait.
You cannot edit like that in portrait mode. Please do a screen shot of the placeholder you want to get rid of. Thanks. - Fabe
Here is the screen shot of the template item in portrait mode.
Thanks Jerry,
I believe your troubles stem from trying to design the book in portrait mode rather than layout.
- Fabe
I understand the difference. It looks ok in portrait. I'm worried about it in portrait mode as I assume anyone reading it on the iPHone will probably use portrait, so I'm trying to optimize that view as well. As it is, the object placeholder pushes the text to the right and leaves blank space. Trying to get around it without having to reassign a different page template. That causes me to need to redo some other formatting. Gues I'll just have to bite the bullet and do it.
I assume anyone reading it on the iPHone will probably use portrait, so I'm trying to optimize that view as well.
iBooks Author is for the iPad. No guarantees for the iPhone.
Is the image/placeholder in Landscape set to be shared with Portrait? Note that using iBooks Author means targeting iPad only.
You can remove the column like this:
- In portrait mode open the inspector
- Switch to Layout Inspector
- Disable "Show thumbnail track"
Good tip. That needs to be done for each section.
Thanks. That did the trick!
Editing iBook Author Templates
