Apple Aperture 3.5 - Manual (Page 407)

Chapter 11 Create books 407
Change the theme for your book
It’s important to choose the theme you want at the beginning of a project. Although you
can change themes after you start a project and Aperture will attempt to convert your book
structure to the new theme’s master pages, you may need to redo some of your work to make
up for differences between themes. It’s not recommended that you complete a book and then
change themes to see it with different layouts.
WARNING: It’s possible to lose text when you change themes. If you change book themes,
make sure to first copy the text you’ve entered into another document so that you have a
backup copy.
1 In the Book Layout Editor, click the Theme button.
Theme button
A dialog appears, alerting you that you may lose text when you change themes and that any
custom layouts you created will not be preserved.
2 Click OK.
3 Choose a book size from the Book Type pop-up menu.
4 In the theme list, select a theme.
5 Click Choose Theme.
After you change the theme, Aperture updates all of your pages to use the new theme.
You can also create your own custom theme with the dimensions of your choosing. However,
you can’t order books from Apple created with custom themes. For more information about
creating custom themes, see
Create and share custom themes on page 431.
View pages
As you work on a book, you can select and view particular pages, and you can change your view
of the pages. You can display your pages laid out singly or side by side, and you can enlarge or
reduce your view of book pages.
You can navigate to pages in your book by clicking a page in the Pages pane or by clicking the
navigation buttons.
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