Do i book author support Arabic

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Firas fawaz Author

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Do i book author support Arabic

I have a problem with Arabic in i book author

Do i book author support Arabic?

iPad, iOS 6, It's iPad 3

Posted on Oct 20, 2014 2:48 PM

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Tom Gewecke

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Oct 20, 2014 5:33 PM in response to Firas fawaz

Firas fawaz wrote:

Do i book author support Arabic?

Not really, too buggy.

Plus there are two other problems:

+Apple doesn't accept books where Arabic is the main language in the iBookstore yet, as far as I know.

+When it does accept them, they have to be in epub3 format, which iBooks Author cannot produce. Instead you could use Pages 5, which also does Arabic much better than iBA.

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Firas fawaz Author

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Oct 21, 2014 8:24 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

So if I have a big project and I want to do it and use ibook author for this do you think that I can buy this special need from Apple?

and will apple support me throw this?

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Tom Gewecke

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Oct 21, 2014 8:39 AM in response to Firas fawaz

No, for a book where the main language is Arabic you should use some other store.

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Firas fawaz Author

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Oct 21, 2014 9:51 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

So I can't even by this option in the ibook store ..

what at about to have this option in the author without publishing it in ibook store

and if not do you know another application that I can use .. Pages is not helpful to build a book like 800 to 1000 page and put it in any ipad with videos and images

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Tom Gewecke

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Oct 21, 2014 11:07 AM in response to Firas fawaz

You can use iBooks Author to distribute free books without using the iBookstore, by emailing them or putting them on a server like Dropbox.

I think it is a mistake to think that iBooks Author is better than Pages for the large kind of project you are planning. iBA is very similar to Pages 4 and I would not recommend either for anything so big.

You might consider Adobe InDesign or MS Word.

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