ralphiedee
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Q: Used pages  a few questions

Gotta say, I used the epub best practices template for Pages, made the whole experience easier and I'm very happy with the result but I have a few questions. the original file for the book was in a word doc and the TOC had to be a djusted a bit to fit the text but in the word file there were page or chapter titles on one page and then the actual chapter began on a second page. This style is repeated thruout the book and when I covereted to epub I see in portrait the view has the chapter page and chapter paragraphs on one page. I know how epub works as it really does not have actual pages but is there a way I can stick to the format of the following

 

TOC

Chapter One

 

contents of chapter one is ONE paragraph ( on a seperate page )

 

Chapter Two

 

contents of chapter two is ONE paragraph ( on a seperate page )

 

This is layed out in pages but the e pub conversion does not follow.

 

Curious how to correct.

 

RD

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Mac Pro 8 Core

Posted on May 25, 2012 7:26 AM

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Q: Used pages  a few questions

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  • by K T,

    K T K T May 25, 2012 10:15 AM in response to ralphiedee
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    May 25, 2012 10:15 AM in response to ralphiedee

    When I've brought WORD docs into Pages for epub'ing, I've had to adjust manually.

     

    If you have a backlog of docs to work with, it may help to create a test file and experiment to learn how your source content and styles work when brought over...the point is it might be easier to adjust the WORD doc first so that when you bring it to Pages for epub'ing it works without additional effort and according to your end needs.

     

    Also, test on a device to be sure you're not working against the default iBooks/iOS navigation

     

    Good luck

     

    Ken

  • by ralphiedee,

    ralphiedee ralphiedee May 25, 2012 11:00 AM in response to K T
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    May 25, 2012 11:00 AM in response to K T

    Thx for the tip, I can tell you that the word doc as I mentioned had a table of contents and it turned out that the size of the text I used changed the pages of the chapter beginings a bit but the TOC updated when I took the chapter style and used for the chapter headings. I did NOT cut and paste the entire word doc, I did the first page, added the styling then the second added the styling etc. the thumbnails look the way the I wanted the epub to look but in portrait view it looks one way and landscape a different . If I look at the contents with the invisibles for a reference the epub does not show up the same, how can I correct to the formula in both portrait and landscape run the same way?

     

    For instance the TOC works fine but instead of the chapter chosen being on the top of a page a few f them are in in differnt spots

     

    is it possible to have this same flow that is in the thumbs in Pages in the epub ?

     

    ??

     

    RD

  • by ralphiedee,

    ralphiedee ralphiedee May 26, 2012 8:30 AM in response to ralphiedee
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    May 26, 2012 8:30 AM in response to ralphiedee

    Ok I have been experimenting in Pages. I see the trouble I'm having is self explainatory of you look at the screenshot. I need the circled text to start on a new page in epub. I tried the following:

     

    added blank pages

    adding sections

    adding page breaks

    adding layout breaks

    ( which I do not know if these were done correctly.

     

    The text in the Pages documents were pasted from a word doc and set using the E Pub best Practices Template.

     

    I did notice that If I copied the template a few times so there were lets say 4 pages and then added blanks in between I still get the next page starting to early, follow?

     

    There hads to be a way to get the correct flow. Started looking at the explainations on all the breaks but what they say the breals do does not come up in e pub.

     

    Anyone?

     

    RD

    SEE SCREENSHOT

    pages_EPubSS.png

  • by ralphiedee,

    ralphiedee ralphiedee May 27, 2012 6:26 AM in response to ralphiedee
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    May 27, 2012 6:26 AM in response to ralphiedee

    Ah now I'm getting somewhere , I think. I opened the epub file and see I have pages inside (chapter-1.xhtml - chapter-2.xhtml -etc) inside those xhtml pages I can see the text I need to move is part of the chapter before so I need to remove the text and add it to a new chapter and do a bit of renumbering which is easy BUT. Once I do those edited to the xhtml files how do I save and then re convert to epub so I can see the result?

     

    RD

  • by ralphiedee,

    ralphiedee ralphiedee May 29, 2012 5:16 AM in response to ralphiedee
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    May 29, 2012 5:16 AM in response to ralphiedee

    Just to expand on this, please see the screenshot for my original problem as I need to correct.

     

    RD

  • by K T,

    K T K T May 30, 2012 9:47 AM in response to ralphiedee
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    May 30, 2012 9:47 AM in response to ralphiedee

    how do I save and then re convert to epub so I can see the result?

     

     

    Have you worked with calibre before?

  • by K T,

    K T K T May 30, 2012 9:49 AM in response to ralphiedee
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    May 30, 2012 9:49 AM in response to ralphiedee

    Sorry, does this mean you're ok now or back to the original issue?

     

    Are you working only with Pages now?

  • by ralphiedee,

    ralphiedee ralphiedee May 31, 2012 1:50 AM in response to K T
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    May 31, 2012 1:50 AM in response to K T

    I see now that to correct this issue I need to go into the .xhtml for each page and re edit any text. I can do this in Dreamweaver, Calibre or Sigil.

     

    thx

     

     

    RD