Learn how to create your own ebooks. Discover how to import text from Word or InDesign; add images, widgets, and links; and export your book for publication as an EPUB or PDF.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- The exercise files
- Previewing the finished iBook
- The 2015 update
- Installing iBooks Author
- Creating a new document
- iBooks Author interface
- Views inside iBooks Author
- Creating a book cover
- Adding an intro video
- Creating chapters
- Creating sections
- Creating pages
- Adding visual interest
- How Tables of Contents work
- Customizing the Scroll View TOC
- Creating a glossary
- Previewing and Proofing your Book
- Templates in iBook Author
- Starting with a Blank Template
- Modifying existing layouts
- Creating a custom layout
- Placeholder media
- Placeholder text
- Auto-updating text
- Photo collage layout
- Custom template
- Creating a portrait-only book
- Dragging and dropping plain text
- Inserting text from Pages
- Inserting text from Microsoft Word
- Linked text boxes
- Importing InDesign Documents
- Understanding how to format text
- Formatting text
- Creating lists
- Creating custom styles
- Controlling tabs
- More on text control
- Embedding equations with LaTeX
- Embedding equations with MathType
- Objects
- Adding objects
- Manipulating objects on a page
- Layering objects together
- Changing an object's appearance
- Titles, labels, captions & descriptions
- Adding accessibility text to objects
- Adding images
- Remove parts of photos with Instant Alpha
- Cropping and masking images
- Controlling image settings
- Spanning an image across two pages
- Understanding shapes
- Adding shapes
- Editing shapes
- Drawing shapes
- Creating a custom shape mask
- Understanding tables
- Creating tables
- Adding and importing data into tables
- Formatting table cells and data
- Performing calculations
- Using conditional formatting
- Sorting table data
- Adding a custom table description
- Understanding charts
- Adding charts
- Editing chart data
- Formatting charts
- Changing the chart type
- Adding chart descriptions
- Understanding widgets
- Creating an image gallery
- Adding a movie
- Adding a Keynote presentation
- Adding a 3D object
- Adding an interactive image
- Adding custom HTML
- Creating a scrolling sidebar
- Creating a popover effects
- Understanding review questions
- Adding a review section
- Creating multiple-choice questions
- Creating matching questions
- Understanding Bookmarks and Links
- Creating internal links
- Using Bookmarks
- Creating external links
- Creating deep links into your iBook
- Creating deep links to other iBooks
- ePub Workflows
- Importing ePubs
- ePub Templates
- Widgets and Tables for ePub
- Exporting ePub
- Preflighting on an iPad
- Exporting a book in iBooks format
- Exporting a book as a PDF
- Exporting a book as a text document
- Emailing a book
- Preparing to publish to the iBookstore
- Publishing to the iBookstore
- Goodbye
Taught by
Chris Mattia