I noticed in iBooks for Mac and iBooks in iOS7 that the beautiful page curl have been eliminated in favor of a slide transition which makes the book feel like its a stack of stiff presentation cards. Is there a way to get the beautiful page curling effect back and make an iBook an iBook again instead of a PowerPoint presentation look-a-like?
Tompert wrote:
Can you tell me how you get it to do the page curl?
I don't have to do anything. Here is an example where I just exported a template to epub using Pages 4. (Are you using Pages 5? I have not tried with that, as it is so crippled compared to Pages 4 in other ways that I only use it to test missing features....).
Just to clarify the situation, iOS 7 still has page curl in iBooks for .epub format books. OS X iBooks has never had page curl. To ask Apple to add page curl to the latter, use
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ibooks.html
Books in the .ibooks format produced by iBooks Author, do not have page curl, even in iOS. To ask Apple to add that feature, use
hmh... and then what? I just did a quick test with a newsletter in Pages and saved it out as an ePub as you suggested. Same thing. I appreciate your reply but you are suggesting an "just format your drive and install the system again" type solution without actually giving any details how that is going to help. Can you be more specific? And what if my book is done on Blurb or in iAuthor already? Are you saying I have to completely redo it just to get the transition back that makes sense and has been taken away for no apparent reason?
Yes, that's the effect. I have an iBook that was produced on Blurb in epub format and it has the page curl on iOS6 but on the Mac or in iOS7 it just shows as slides. I wonder if there's any way in iAuthor, Pages or Blurb to call for the page curl.
Thanks Tom for taking the time to engage on this question. It seems like it's an OS level thing, a default kind of transition that Apple removed in favor of this non-sensical sideways slide in their effort to be like Google. What I am trying to figure out is whether there's a setting in the iBooks viewer to call for the beautiful page curl or a way to invoke it in the authoring software. Obviously I'd rather not have to redo the entire book in another authoring package. As I mentioned I did a quick test in Pages and exported as epub but it didn't have the page curl. I looked through all the menus in Pages but couldn't find a command or anything to invoke the page curl transition. Can you tell me how you get it to do the page curl?
I have Pages 5.2.2 that came with this Mac. I think that explains it. I sure hope there will be a way to actually call for it somehow other than authoring in a legacy version of Pages. Some kind of widget or something. It really should be a preference in the Viewer, don't you agree? But that doesn't seem to be the way Apple is heading.
There is an iPad app.... Book Creator from Red Jumper - which does have a curl page option.
Its a useful app... and getting better - but nowhere near as versatile as iBA.
I gain nothing from Red Jumper and have no connection with them other than user.
vinnyvg wrote:
There is an iPad app.... Book Creator from Red Jumper - which does have a curl page option.
Do the books created by this app have page curl when they are viewed in iBooks for OS X?
As far as I know, iBooks Author has never been able to produce page curl.
Normal epubs done by other apps do have page curl on my iOS 7, e.g.
I was looking at an iBook on my iPad and noticed the page curl is back and remembered your question from yesterday. Is this what you're looking for ? i noticed not all books have it.
Produce your book in epub format using Pages or some other app intead the .ibooks format generated by iBooks Author.
bobseufert wrote:
i noticed not all books have it.
As I mentioned in my post just above your own, books created with iBooks Author don't have it.
I'd be happy to send you my test epub it you want to try to compare the internal code with what is produced by Pages 5 (tom at bluesky dot org).
PS I just tested with pages 5.2 and still got the curl ok. Will upgrade to 5.2.2 later and see if it goes away...
PAges 5.2.2 also gives me page curl on my ios 7 ipad ibooks when i export a report template to epub
Is there a way to get the page curl transition back?
