ASCR0001
Level 1 (4 points)
Publishing

Q: IBOOK AUTHOR ERROR Lucida Grande

iBOOK AUTHOR EXPORT WARNING:  "Lucida Grande not supported by IOS."  I have no Lucida Grande fonts in my iba  document.  I changed all the fonts to Arial, then Avenir, then Hoefler, then Palatino and always get the same warning.  I changed the template and got same warning.  What gives??

IBooks Author - 2.4.1

Ron

iPhoto '11, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), words and pictures

Posted on Aug 22, 2016 5:36 PM

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Q: IBOOK AUTHOR ERROR Lucida Grande

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  • by chris_g1,

    chris_g1 chris_g1 Aug 23, 2016 1:06 PM in response to ASCR0001
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    Aug 23, 2016 1:06 PM in response to ASCR0001

    Well hey there ASCR001! 

     

    Welcome to the Apple Support Communities! After working tirelessly on that document, it sure would be great to export and share your work. As you're running into a snag with the Lucida Grande font, have a look over the following resource. Try exporting the content in another format. 

     

    Export your book for iBooks or in another format

     

    Have a phenomenal day! 

  • by Xylocopa,

    Xylocopa Xylocopa Aug 30, 2016 5:47 PM in response to ASCR0001
    Level 1 (26 points)
    Aug 30, 2016 5:47 PM in response to ASCR0001

    Hi ASCR0001,

     

    I also had a strange problem with fonts on my ibook project as I didn't know about these limitations. In my case, I had installed a custom font. I looked at my iBA and found that Lucida Grande doesn't appear in the font tool, but that font is readily available in, say Pages, TextEdit, etc. So, perhaps at one time you had imported or copied and pasted some text into iBA, changed it to something else, and now you can't find any trace of Lucida Grande. But it may still be there, for example, in a blank line, a space in a paragraph, hidden in a gallery caption, or some obscure place.

    I resolved my font error by exporting each chapter out of iBA and into Pages, then selected the entire content, changed the font (lately I'm using Avenir) and then I copied it from Pages and pasted it back into a fresh chapter in iBA. Galleries could be dragged and dropped into the new chapter, but I chose to rebuild those instead.

    This took a lot of time but had to be done. Older iBook Author guides had erroneously indicated that any font could be used, but that hasn't been true in the recent past. The key thing I learned was that any font used in iBA must be an iOS font, too. My Mac has many non-iOS fonts, so I have to be careful.

     

    I hope this helps you get your iBook finished. Good luck and Best Regards,

    John

  • by ASCR0001,

    ASCR0001 ASCR0001 Aug 31, 2016 10:56 AM in response to Xylocopa
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Publishing
    Aug 31, 2016 10:56 AM in response to Xylocopa

    Thank you for a very thorough explanation of why it could be happening. I have imported text using BBEdit and text edit so that might be the culprit.

    Thanks.

    Ron

     

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