Pages how to make epub format ebook

Pre-preparation

Since it involves e-book production, the first task is certainly to get the text "raw material". If you are the author, then "raw material" is certainly not a problem. But if you want to make e-books from a technical tutorial or web blog, most of the cases you get may be TXT format text or even HTML source files. In either case, given the absence of the Pages ' replacement function, it is strongly recommended that you use Sublime Text to handle the following chapters, blank lines, indents, and so on. In addition, there are two other tips to introduce to you:

Open the terminal input cat chapter-[1-9].xhtml >> roll up. XHTML, which merges the contents of the 1~9 chapters into a "roll up" file;

Use the Clipmenu Strip tags function, you can convert html/xhtml source files to plain text;

As the situation in the Department is different, it is inconvenient to carry out further. It is important to note that early preparation is not a necessary step, but proper handling can reduce unnecessary hassle in many Pages.

Production process

Document Directory

Locate the cursor at the beginning of the document and click the menu bar insert-table of contents-document to insert the list of directories. A similar hint will appear in Pages:

The table of contents is empty because your aren ' t using the paragraph styles set to appear in it.

What you need to know is that most word handlers produce a list of directories through paragraph styles. The hint indicates that we should set the chapter style, and the catalog list will automatically update the content when the style is set.

Chapter Style

Suggest the beginning before the mind simply plan the document hierarchy and style to avoid inconsistencies and rework. Here we will only "up/down Volume", "Chapter *" and so on respectively set to Heading 2, Heading 3 style, both are bold and centered, after the paragraph to add a line of space. During the operation, you can use the Lookup function and the page thumbnail to jump quickly, set up to the home directory list to see if there are missing chapters.

Graphic mixed row

Because of the limited reading area of the IPhone screen, most of the cases we need pictures to fill the screen. Unfortunately, the size of the picture in the e-book generated by Pages is not adaptive to the screen but is fixed in size. To keep the picture out of bounds, the recommended format for the picture is horizontally centered and about 200pt x 300pt wide.

Cover picture

It's still the beginning of the document. Insert a new page, copy and paste the prepared cover picture, resize the picture to fill the entire page. Set alignment to vertical/horizontal center.

See here reader friends may have noticed that the above so-called "production process" is only a word processor general operation steps (only need to pay attention to the details set). In other words, as long as you have MS Word or Pages used very skillfully, the production of EPub format ebook does not give you additional learning costs.

Export ebook

After you save the document, you can click on the menu bar File-export to-epub ... Export E-books. In sequence, fill in the pop-up menu of the title, author, category, and other information, pay attention to check the use of the "the" the book cover image option to generate books cover. Then click Next ... can be saved.

OK, so far ePub ebook production finished. Then you can sync it to the IPhone via ITunes and read it anytime, anywhere.