pages and fixed layout epub

ePubs don't have fixed layouts, the whole idea of ePubs is they have flexible layouts to suit different devices, media and users' view settings.

Are you asking how to create pdfs?

Peter

Have a look at the references in

http://epubsecrets.com/getting-started-with-fixed-layout-epubs.php

The workflow part is relatively easy.

I have just finished creating two books in Pages, exporting them to ePub format.

Double click on the exported file, and it is viewed in iBooks - or "previewed" if you like.

You can also download the Kindle Previewer interface, which converts it to a mobi format, and previews it.

If you have become an iBooks Producer - you can also download a neat previewer from there that interactively allows you to proview you book on any Apple device, and reflects the changes immediatly.

Book Proofer 1.0.1

Apple's app to help you develop and test EPUBs.

This is a very useful piece of software. Simple as ABC to use.

- Delivery for iBooks. You can send your epaub directly to the itunesconnect portal that you log into, als o your cover page, and promotional images if you want them.

- Delivery for Kindle. Same thing, upload using the kdp.amason.com interface when you login.

If it looks good on your iBooks it looks good on yoru Kindle.

Now, as for Fixed Layout. It's not worth the drama. Really. ePub 3 references are delving into it, but as each device is different - it's always going to be difficult.

My only solution is to use iBooks Author, and lots of images. It gets close, and if you LIMIT your book to one size device, you may be able to do it.

But the only way I have found to approach it is to use images of things that you don't want to ... flow, and you must add them "in line with text", not fixed on page. So they follow a text anchor you put them with.

I have no doubt that I will be corrected on a lot of this, but it works for me. I am writing, and producing books that when it comes to publishing, don't tke long at all. I don'twant to get bogged down in days of fiddling to try and master some arcane conversion process.

I have text book in print form that I'd love to convert to ePub, but it's all tables and graphs and Q&A type things, and although I started - it's just too difficult to convert to ePub.

I'm now doing a complete re-think on that one, to see if I can offer it in a suitable format. Redesign it as it were.

Excuse me, I`d like to explain better but I`ll try. I joined the forum just to be facing the same issues using Pages. I`m a writer of illustrated children`s books and do not want to use the exclusive Apple`s iBooks Author but simply use the universal EPUB format. There is an EPUB template to Pages (Creating ePub files with Pages) and Pages should export it but:

- TOC is dispensable in illustrated children books.

We don`t need TOC, Summaries, Headlings and other resources in Fixed Layouts. The extra template provided is very confuse in Pages.

I have extreme difficulty in handling it.

- Pages should be the most intuitive word editor. No, it`s not. I`d like that Pages was more intuitive as inDesign (drop and paste), so intuitive as Word 2003 or LibreOffice.

Despite the many features, windows and buttons I`m using inDesign right now. Because it is just copy/paste/drop, paste texts/formats without questions and export. It works.

In most cases when I export my EPUB books in Pages all images and texts are out of place unlike the formatting that I have created. inDesign does not do it.

- I have created illustrated books using iBooks Author and it works. But it doesn`t export as EPUB.

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So, Pages could be so easy as iBooks Author and exporting EPUBs using the formatting we used during the work.

Pages should have templates to EPUB inside it and all formats (as Fixed Layouts - I use it) and everything working in exporting.

MiriamBR wrote:

Pages should have

For Apple to see your requests, you need to repost them at

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Are you using Indesign to create pdfs? Because Pages Exports/Prints to pdfs too.

All ePubs are flexible in layout, not fixed.

Peter

I sent a feedback to Pages Team about this issue exporting EPUBs.