Apple Pages '09 User Manual
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Documents exported to ePub format will look different than their Pages counterparts.
If you want to get the best document fidelity between the Pages and ePub formats,
style your Pages document with paragraph styles and other formatting attributes
allowed in an ePub file. Apple provides a sample document on the Apple Support
site that features styles and guidelines to help you create a Pages document that’s
optimized for export to the ePub file format, which you can use as a template or a
guide. To learn more about using paragraph styles in Pages, see the topics in the
chapter Chapter 6, “Working with Styles,” on page 123.
To read your ePub document in iBooks on your mobile device, you must transfer the
ePub file that you create onto your device.
To use the “ePub Best Practices” sample document:
To learn more about using the ePub format and get a better feel for how a Pages
document might appear as a book in iBooks, it’s a good idea to download the “ePub
Best Practices” sample document. After reading the guidelines and instructions within
the document, you can use it as a template to create your own document. Or import
the styles from the sample document into a new document you create.
1
Download the “ePub Best Practices” sample document at the following web address:
2
Do either of the following:
Use the sample document as a template.
a
Create a copy of the sample document file.
b
Delete the contents of the sample document copy and type in (or paste in) your
own content.
c
Apply paragraph styles as described in the “ePub Best Practices” sample document.
Import the paragraph styles from the sample document into a new or existing
Pages document.
a
Open the Pages document to which you want to import the styles, and choose
Format > Import Styles.
b
Locate and select the ePub Best Practices sample document, and then click Open.
c
Click Select All.
d
Select the checkbox “Replace duplicates,” and then click OK.
e
Review your document to be certain that each paragraph style from the sample
document is appropriately applied to all blocks of text in your document, and
correct any misapplications of the styles.
3
Export the document you create to ePub format to see how it looks in iBooks.
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Chapter 12
Printing, Sharing, and Exporting Your Document to Other Formats