Is there a way to create drop caps in iBooks Author?
Is there a way to create initial drop caps in iBooks Author?
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Put your Drop Cap in a separate Text Box, using a large font size, and adjust the wrap properties for the text box to suit.
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I tried that, but the main text box is not wrapping around the separate text box.
I would also need for this effect to show in the portrait orientation without looking "funny".
Is this what you want?
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...this is without bothering w/wrap.
Yes...but I do need the rest of the text to wrap around the cap. I had also tried placing the initial cap as a Table but then was unable to use this as a bookmark as well. (The drop cap is serving to be an indicator to redirect the reader to the "retreat" section in the back of the book).
Given all the attributes you need, you may be better off making your drop cap as an image, then wrapping text around it. You can link/bookmark hidden text that brackets the image.
Actually that is what I have been doing : ) until I noticed that this image and "drop cap" effect was not showing up in my portrait view. And the "redirection" is something intrinsic to what we're trying to do with the book, so it needs to show up in both landscape and portrait view.
Disable portrait?
Nooooo ! : (
The book has quite alot of imagery (very very few widgets). But the portrait view is really nice for those who will want to read this without looking at all the paintings. Sort of an aesthetic thing.... b/c the book is roughly 210 pages long.
But the drop caps "book marks" would be a nice, simple, elegant way to redirect the reader to the back of the book.
Great, drop caps work, thanks.
I wanted to kern them back (I can't help myself) and I found that if I put a space after the box and then kerned the space back, it worked visually. Do you think that will cause issues down the road? It previewed ok.
Also if I make the boxes too tight, again to make it more typographically pleasing, may I have issues later if people increase or decrease the font size?
I don't have an iPad yet so I can't check it that way. If something previews, will it run?
thanks
a mac preview should be similar to an iPad preview, but nothing compares to actually seeing your iBook with an iPad. Maybe you should export as an ibooks, and send it to someone you know has an iPad so you can test the final version. Also, note that you cannot change the font size when reading ebooks created with iBooks Author. This is similar to fixed-layout ePubs.
Is there a way to create drop caps in iBooks Author?