iBooks Author Essential Training

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.

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