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iBooks Author Essential Training

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

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.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • The exercise files
  • Previewing the finished iBook
  • The 2015 update
1. Getting Started
  • 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
2. Working with Templates
  • 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
3. Adding Text
  • Dragging and dropping plain text
  • Inserting text from Pages
  • Inserting text from Microsoft Word
  • Linked text boxes
  • Importing InDesign Documents
4. Formatting Text
  • 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
5. Working with Objects
  • 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
6. Working with Images
  • Adding images
  • Remove parts of photos with Instant Alpha
  • Cropping and masking images
  • Controlling image settings
  • Spanning an image across two pages
7. Working with Shapes
  • Understanding shapes
  • Adding shapes
  • Editing shapes
  • Drawing shapes
  • Creating a custom shape mask
8. Working with Tables
  • 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
9. Working with Charts
  • Understanding charts
  • Adding charts
  • Editing chart data
  • Formatting charts
  • Changing the chart type
  • Adding chart descriptions
10. Working with Widgets
  • 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
11. Creating Review Sections
  • Understanding review questions
  • Adding a review section
  • Creating multiple-choice questions
  • Creating matching questions
12. Working Links and Bookmarks
  • Understanding Bookmarks and Links
  • Creating internal links
  • Using Bookmarks
  • Creating external links
  • Creating deep links into your iBook
  • Creating deep links to other iBooks
13. Working with ePubs
  • ePub Workflows
  • Importing ePubs
  • ePub Templates
  • Widgets and Tables for ePub
  • Exporting ePub
14. Exporting the Book
  • 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
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Chris Mattia

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