I created an iBook and modified the template. In the template, my bullets are asterisks and show up as such. In the preview they show up as asterisks. In the book, they are odd orange flowery bullets (that don't go with the template). How did they get there and how to I get rid of them?
iBook, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
Can you provide a screenshot?
What font(s) did you use?
Hang on... also more info... I have "text bullets" chosen in the style (not image bullets).
That's why I asked what fonts...
Trebuchet is the font. Just regular, no italics or anything added.
Here's how it looks in iBooks: I'm thinking that the software is somehow interpreting the asterisk into the orange flower. Maybe if I just use a dot it will take care of the matter... but I don't know why it would appear differently in the software and preview than in the actual book.
All it has to be is an unsupportable font and iOS will substitute, I think.
Try another font such as Helvetica. Make sure it's not an MS font at least...
Usually when I click on a font it tells me it is unsupported. This one didn't. And I'm too deep into this project to change it now. I will try changing the bullet type and see if that works.
The problem is caused by the fact that you did not actually use an asterisk for your bullet, but the symbol for an 8 pointed star. iBooks Author is somewhat defective in that it can only display this in the old black/white form. But other apps may use the Apple Color Emoji font to display the new emoticon version. The fix is to use some other bullet.
(Don't ask me why the emoticon looks the way it does).
PS If you want to keep this bullet, one thing you could try is to specifically set the font for it to Arial Unicode. In theory iBooks author should embed the font and thus not use Apple Color Emoji in the iBooks app. You could also try Zapf Dingbats.
Thank you that makes sense to me. I changed the bullet to a dot and that should resolve the problem.
Orange Flowery Bullets
