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Apple Brings ePub Export to Pages With iWork 9.0.4

When will I get freakin' auto-save in Pages?!?!?!?

Maybe if the app didn't just decide to crash every once in awhile I wouldn't need auto-save, but until then....gimme.
 
I don't think there is a smiley in existence that expresses how I feel right now.
Over the past year plus, we have been subjected to - iPhone this and mobile that.
And now Apple reveals to the world this bread crumb of an update.:mad:

Come on Apple! Give us new iWork & iLife programs!
 
It would be nice if Apple adds this feature to Aperture also. I make catalog for companies, and if this feature comes to Aperture, then my clients can show case their products on the iPad and iPhone. It will work great with the iBook app.
 
jpine said:
BTW, does anyone have any thoughts of experience using a two column format for ebooks? The nice layout that Q shared is single column. I'm developing a professional (peer reviewed) journal for psychologists that will be online only. The readers can choose PDF or ebook for their iPad (perhaps Kindle too). We hope to be up and running by Q2 of next year.
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You can use multiple columns in a PDF, since the layout is fixed at the time you create it, but Apple says that columns will be removed when you go from Pages to ePub, presumably because the text flow is dynamic.

People might question the use of multiple columns in ePub format anyway. How would a user navigate if they zoomed in? Down one column, then back up to the next? Wouldn't turning the page be easier?
 
This is the first feature that actually makes me want to upgrade from iWork '08. I still think I'll hang on until the new version of iWork though. There doesn't seem to be much else worthwhile in Numbers really.
 
Wirelessly posted (Opera/9.80 (iPhone; Opera Mini/5.0.019802/19.916; U; en) Presto/2.5.25)

Who cares about Pages, when will ePub be in OpenOffice???

But for all the people who like Pages, nice update.
 
So does this mean if I make a document in Pages and use the new epub thing that I can view it as if it was a book on my iPad? Sorry for the dumb question, I'm tired :eek:
 
Cromulent said:
This is the first feature that actually makes me want to upgrade from iWork '08. I still think I'll hang on until the new version of iWork though. There doesn't seem to be much else worthwhile in Numbers really.
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this.

Corbin052198 said:
Wirelessly posted (Opera/9.80 (iPhone; Opera Mini/5.0.019802/19.916; U; en) Presto/2.5.25)

Who cares about Pages, when will ePub be in OpenOffice???

But for all the people who like Pages, nice update.
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there are a number of open source converters. Calibre is one. i know that is a converter and not native export though...
 
If i click the apple logo to check for software update, it says that the software is up to date.

When i open the programs, it tells me there is an update. However, i clicked the screen and the update window went away and now when i click the apple to check for update it again says its up to date.
 
Cromulent said:
This is the first feature that actually makes me want to upgrade from iWork '08. I still think I'll hang on until the new version of iWork though. There doesn't seem to be much else worthwhile in Numbers really.
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I was excited about this and then realized it wasn't applicable to my 08 version.
 
reaper said:
Hmmm... this would make it even easier to "publish" a piece you are working on. Could be interesting.
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japanime said:
This update is a nice step forward, but I doubt it's a magic pill when it comes to making ePub creation a pain-free process.

My company has transformed several of our print-edition graphic novels into ePubs for sale in the iBookstore, and it was a very time-consuming process involving several pieces of software (InDesign, Photoshop, Pages and Sigil). We certainly couldn't have done it using Pages exclusively.
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Ironically, I spent the last month coding my novel into .epub. I got it into the iBookstore last week. Now this release drops my jaw. I went from Pages, to Word, to inDesign, to epub, to unzip, to xhtml (textwrangler) to epub again, then passed epubcheck. The whole process was making me wonder where Apple's .epub software was hiding.

Just a moment ago, I used my original Pages file, exported to ePub, inserted to iBooks = done. inDesign just lost. "This changes everything."

jmor said:
So does this mean if I make a document in Pages and use the new epub thing that I can view it as if it was a book on my iPad? Sorry for the dumb question, I'm tired :eek:
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Yes.

ranReloaded said:
Or better: iBooks for the Mac!
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that has got to be coming. I can't believe it hasn't been released myself. Kindle beat them!

Doctor Q said:
Apple offers an ePub Best Practices template (click to download).
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rumplestiltskin said:
Let's see how it handles endnotes and embedded multimedia. If it can do these things well, it will blow every other ePub-creation app out of the water.
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I took one of my standard .mov files on my desktop, opened it in Quicktime, exported to H.264 for the iPhone, inserted that exported file into the template above and it played.

"This changes everything." for self-publishers like me who have been waiting for this for so long. I feel like dancing.
 
iWork '11

I think this update came out since these are some of the new features in the new version of iWork set to be released, so this is just a preview of what is to come!!!:cool:
 
B. Hunter said:
I don't think there is a smiley in existence that expresses how I feel right now.
Over the past year plus, we have been subjected to - iPhone this and mobile that.
And now Apple reveals to the world this bread crumb of an update.:mad:

Come on Apple! Give us new iWork & iLife programs!
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Right, and don't fix anything else or add any features until you do!

God, how new features and bug fixes make me angry! :mad:
 
Coincidence

The rule line printing bug in Keynote has been there since Snow Leopard was released. Many people filed bug reports through the official channels but nothing happened (see http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10600800). 3 weeks ago I sent an email to Steve Jobs himself about this. Never got a reply of course, but today's update fixes this exact bug. Coincidence?
 
DKN said:
The rule line printing bug in Keynote has been there since Snow Leopard was released. Many people filed bug reports through the official channels but nothing happened (see http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10600800). 3 weeks ago I sent an email to Steve Jobs himself about this. Never got a reply of course, but today's update fixes this exact bug. Coincidence?
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Yes

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ePub! This standard slipped under my radar. Will anyone in the UK be able to take it seriously?
:D
 
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