Hello!
I started using iBook Author for a personal project, and I would like that pages make that flip effect like the other ones. Is there any option for that? The book looks great on my iPad, but the pages just scroll and don't flip.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance 🙂
iPad Pro Wi-Fi + Cellular, iOS 10.3.3
The page flipping is a combination of the reader and the file and how it was created.
Did you use an EPUB template or Multi-touch template in iBooks Author? Either way, the pages (EPUB or Multi-touch templates) will not have a flipping effect, on macOS version of iBooks or the iOS version of iBooks.
On the other hand, you can export an EPUB created in Pages and the pages will flip on iOS iBooks app, but will not on the macOS version of the iBooks app.
The page flipping is a combination of the reader and the file and how it was created.
Did you use an EPUB template or Multi-touch template in iBooks Author? Either way, the pages (EPUB or Multi-touch templates) will not have a flipping effect, on macOS version of iBooks or the iOS version of iBooks.
On the other hand, you can export an EPUB created in Pages and the pages will flip on iOS iBooks app, but will not on the macOS version of the iBooks app.
On one side you have Pages which is a limited word processor, not a book editing publishing, but can generate a book with the page turning effect we all‘ve come to love.
On the other hand you have iBook Author which gives you all the book editing/publishing tool capabilities you need but lacks the page turning effect.
Honestly this is a bit awkward. You have 2 tools none of which can give us all the capabilities we need to write a book. Does anybody know of additional options? I’m open to pay for a tool that does everything.
Export as EPUB as reflowable from Pages. Fixed layout will just slide as you mentioned. Reflowable was the default before and Fixed layout just became an option for Pages in recent versions.
Exporting as Reflowable works fine for page flipping on iPhone and iPad, both running iOS 10.3.3.
I tried that option, but it didn't work for me: the page scrolls but doesn't flip like other pages 😟
Any idea? Maybe it's an option in Pages?
Thanks, MrE.
Erasmix wrote:
Does anybody know of additional options? I’m open to pay for a tool that does everything.
Have you looked at InDesign?
I think the main thing is deciding what features your book needs. If it's basically a text based book and all you care about is a page turning effect, you have a lot of options for reflow EPUBs. Pages now offers fixed or reflow options.
If your book needs to be feature rich with a lot of interactive elements, you're probably looking at a fixed layout EPUB or .iBooks multi-touch (no page turn most likely). Also, do you need to hit other platforms. If yes, check to see if they accept both EPUB 2 and 3.
There are plug-ins for InDesign from places like Aquafadas, and you can integrate HTML5 from apps like Hype.
If you just need simple EPUB, other options are Vellum, Scrivener, Calibre etc.
Flip page effect on iBooks Author
