I seem to be unable to export an iBook from iBooks Author that once viewed in iBooks has the option to increase the font size? The little letter big A and smaller A on the upper right of the document are missing.
Just created a simple epub document in Pages and it has the option to increase the font size in all iBooks programs across all my device.
Strange?
MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), 2012 model and still going strong
I think it is one of the differnces between .ibooks format and .epub format.
Have you tried using iBA to produce .epub format? That requires that you use one of the .epub templates.
See this previous thread that discusses the conditions on when the option to increase/decrease text size is available:
Can't change fonts in iBooks for books made with iBooks Author
I am producing a media rich iBook with all trimmings - widgets, video etc. Will be able to do this with an ePub template? Where are these epub templates?
This seems a little odd on Apple part - the most important part of a book is actually being able to ready the bloody thing and if the font is too small (not able to be increased in size) then what's the point - may as well create an pdf version. I have to be missing something here or is this another nice Apple feature. (Hey it took them 3 years to allow iBooks to sync via iCloud - yay! /end of my rant)
Ok I see the ePub templates at the bottom but the widgets seem to be missing some feature. Oh well ....... Let me try one of them.
KT, the post you pointed does not really answer my question - at least that's what I read from it.
The correct answers seems to be from TOM, tested creating the book from an ePub template now I can change font size BUT loose some widgets 😟
Not sure if I can edit the iBooks raw file it's self and change the code to allow this import functionality.
Thabo Da Husky wrote:
This seems a little odd on Apple part - the most important part of a book is actually being able to ready the bloody thing and if the font is too small (not able to be increased in size) then what's the point - may as well create an pdf version.
Some authors do not find Apple's apps sufficient -- I think most of them probably use InDesign instead. You can ask Apple for new features via
The iBookstore doesn't accept pdf.
I suppose by widgets you mean interactivity - I agree w/Tom about the relative sufficiency, and in that case, I move to making iOS apps instead.
As for raw file editing...unless you are vastly comfortable w/XML, that is the fastest way to break an iBA file.
Change Font size in iBooks ebook? IBA issue?
