Plus another 290 Bugs for a new flatbed scanner with transparency unit. Problem is that Lion can't do all the things Snow Leopard can do.
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'iBooks Author' eBook Authoring App for Mac Now Available
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Plus another 290 Bugs for a new flatbed scanner with transparency unit. Problem is that Lion can't do all the things Snow Leopard can do.
That comes on top.
*hits head* Update iBooks
Yes, it is very vanilla. And yes, it highlights my lazy citation record. But this works pretty easily. Just drag and drop iWorks files to create a chapter. I'm sure tweaking will really unlock this platform, but for now it is cool.
Also - it doesn't automatically do page flipping, you have to scroll down to access text.
Yes, it is very vanilla. And yes, it highlights my lazy citation record. But this works pretty easily. Just drag and drop iWorks files to create a chapter. I'm sure tweaking will really unlock this platform, but for now it is cool.
Also - it doesn't automatically do page flipping, you have to scroll down to access text.
I know! I have a Mac Plus and I'm outraged...OUTRAGED that Apple doesn't support that at all. I bought that in 1986 and it's still working fine. How DARE Apple not support this anymore with software updates and programs. They're just trying to get me to spend more money with them. No. Thank. You. I spent enough back then and it's still working so why upgrade?
So I feel for the PPC users out there. It's only been 6 years since they switched to Intel and those PPC Macs have at least another 20 to 25 years left on them.
But seriously, I don't know how people work on those old machines. I have a 2008 MacBook Pro and that's getting to be slow as molasses in working with Photoshop and Lightroom. And don't even get me started on Aperture...that takes forever. I will do an adjustment then the CPU pegs to red and you wait and wait and wait for the adjustment to actually show up. It's not like I'm running out of RAM either as I have 8 gigs in this thing.
I guess if I was just surfing the web and doing emails or something, a PPC would still be okay. I just can't fathom doing Photoshop on them, but I guess some people do it all the time. But come on...time marches onward. Do you really expect Apple to keep developers around that code for the PPC with new products?
Scrivner is much more appropriate for that kind of writing. And the Kindle market is wayyyyyy bigger than the iBooks market.
You don't have to: https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/editors/sigil/Portfile
I update the Portfile if you drop me a mail.
Oh come on! The Apple dev's have access to additional API's in SL and may be using them to create the novel (no pun intended) content that we love on the Mac platform and you are whining like a baby that they are trying to screw some people out of a $29 upgrade.
Some people I just don't understand....
Now I have a reason to actually setup my copy of Lion in VirtualBox. I still use enough PowerPC programs that I can't move off 10.6 at the momment. I've been putting off the virtualization option just because of laziness. This looks like a good reason to do it. I've got it running of an external test drive and it's interesting.
I guess the question for the hackerish types is what are the key differences in Apples variant vs ePub3 (which they really shouldn't be doing). If those differences are linked to only a small subset of features could a program be made to convert?
I guess the question for the hackerish types is what are the key differences in Apples variant vs ePub3 (which they really shouldn't be doing). If those differences are linked to only a small subset of features could a program be made to convert?
Landscape, GRRRRR
This platform has landscape in mind - not portrait orientation. I don't like that.
This platform has landscape in mind - not portrait orientation. I don't like that.
Can you create such content rich books easily for the Kindle? Seems like a traditional Apple approach here - identify the need and produce the tools required to generate content-rich materials that sell through their app infrastructure for a nice 30% premium. With the iPad's making good inroads in many schools, this is an excellent approach for the educational market.
Whether it's a good approach for individuals publishing the 1st novel or not remains to be seen
Importing Pages / Word - does it do footnotes?
This looks interesting -- but having tried to import documents from Word and from Pages, it seems as though footnotes get dropped. Anyone have any other results with footnotes? (I'd expect them to be converted to hyperlinks, I think.)
This looks interesting -- but having tried to import documents from Word and from Pages, it seems as though footnotes get dropped. Anyone have any other results with footnotes? (I'd expect them to be converted to hyperlinks, I think.)
It's not anyone else's fault that they haven't upgraded their computers in that many years, nor would it be smart of Apple to have to continue to support ancient architecture and software the was MS is forced to with XP. There's a reason their OS is inexpensive, and a major part of it is not pushing the costs of supporting the most extreme legacy users onto the rest of us. I don't care if it was $3000 back in 1999-2005, this is 2012, so people need to quit expecting their computers and OS to carry their needs as long as a house or car would.
Okay, note to self. Do not include auto playing movies at load of book. Holy crap that's annoying. Not good that it loads each time the book is reopened. Very, very bad form.
The sample book from E.O. Wilson makes that super clear from the start. Books should not be loading an "intro screen" every time the get relaunched. Bad for reference and switching between books.
The sample book from E.O. Wilson makes that super clear from the start. Books should not be loading an "intro screen" every time the get relaunched. Bad for reference and switching between books.
True... I was looking for a Mac version of iBook rather than an iBook 2...
But if you own an iPad, it looks kind of neat.
Go here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/ibooks-author.html
And tell Apple they need to have LaTeX support.
This is a huge push into a sector that really needs it, but the lack of equation support is depressing.
And tell Apple they need to have LaTeX support.
This is a huge push into a sector that really needs it, but the lack of equation support is depressing.
I agree, though the two apps have completely different uses. Scrivener is for hammering out the text, iBooks Author is for taking that text and making it into a book with a layout. So, it should still have novel templates.
Or me, with my original Intel MacBook Pro that won't run Lion.
Oh well, I've been delaying upgrading my wife's iMac to Lion so I guess it's time now. I really want this software.
I have a 2010 iMac. Intel. SL. Unfortunately it sits on my desk in a large corporate office and is managed by those extraordinarily slow-moving corporate IT guys. It'll be on SL for the foreseeable future because SOP regarding OS upgrades is, commonly, equally slow. Can't get iCloud on the thing (though MobileMe is permitted... until June....), yet coworkers on Windows can. Fortunately none of us need this authoring app, either.
There might be lots of iPhones and iPads running around in corporate environments (and maybe this is all Apple really needs, eh? iOS world domination?) but Macs are doomed to being substantially absent because of insensitivity to corporate IT SOP.
Lion is probably crap - Snow Leopard certainly was, and that was an under the skin "improvement" only. Unfortunately I'd already upgraded so that's where I am ... but now that I (finally) have a stable system again, I'm in no hurry to change to Lion ... I'll let the chance of publishing award winning Textbooks subside for the time being ...
Been waiting a while for them to make something like this. But, is your book ONLY viewable on an ipad? what about iphones? or a desktop version? it would be nice if you could at least do a stripped down iphone version too, that's maybe just text & pictures like an ePub book.
It's currently only .ibook format which iBook 2 is the only current reader of. Without the iTunes bundling its open XML (meaning not encrypted) but no one has had a chance to really dig into it and see if it's possible to create a reader outside the iPad.
You can export as non-intactive PDF so it's not a total dead end.
While LaTeX support could help with many things, I don't see Apple doing that. LaTeX, IMHO, is not "consumer-ish" for Apple.
Then an equation maker that generates LaTeX behind the scenes. LazTeX isn't for people writing little self-publish books but serious authors who need a mathematical lexicon in digital form. It needs to be there.
Huh?
This is just trolling or plain stupidity. I'm sorry, but a $29 upgrade to Lion shouldn't break the bank for anybody who had enough money to purchase a Mac in the first place .... much less complaining about it as a requirement to use some FREE publishing software they're offering people.
I don't get all the anti-10.7 sentiment out there anyway? Sure, there are situations where you won't want to upgrade a given machine past Snow Leopard. I've got one Mac like that myself. (You may still rely on older apps that require Rosetta to run because they're still coded for the old PPC architecture.) But the same was said about "Classic" MacOS, and eventually, 99.9% of us managed to move forward and let go of some outdated software that wasn't ever upgraded to run OS X native.
There's actually quite a bit "wrong" with 10.6. For example, it has a lot of security weaknesses they overcame in 10.7. There's also a lot of "little stuff" improved in 10.7 that's simply nice to have -- such as the elimination of auto key repeat when you hold down a keyboard key for several seconds. (Who ever really used that, ever since the days of trying to draw artwork on line printers, made of lines and lines of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA and what-not?) Instead, 10.7 does something sensible -- cycles a letter through various accent-marked versions for you.
This is just trolling or plain stupidity. I'm sorry, but a $29 upgrade to Lion shouldn't break the bank for anybody who had enough money to purchase a Mac in the first place .... much less complaining about it as a requirement to use some FREE publishing software they're offering people.
I don't get all the anti-10.7 sentiment out there anyway? Sure, there are situations where you won't want to upgrade a given machine past Snow Leopard. I've got one Mac like that myself. (You may still rely on older apps that require Rosetta to run because they're still coded for the old PPC architecture.) But the same was said about "Classic" MacOS, and eventually, 99.9% of us managed to move forward and let go of some outdated software that wasn't ever upgraded to run OS X native.
There's actually quite a bit "wrong" with 10.6. For example, it has a lot of security weaknesses they overcame in 10.7. There's also a lot of "little stuff" improved in 10.7 that's simply nice to have -- such as the elimination of auto key repeat when you hold down a keyboard key for several seconds. (Who ever really used that, ever since the days of trying to draw artwork on line printers, made of lines and lines of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA and what-not?) Instead, 10.7 does something sensible -- cycles a letter through various accent-marked versions for you.