Employ advanced book creation options in Pages

Acquire how to utilise advanced options in Pages to fine tune or create a digital book in the EPUB book format.

The EPUB format is an open digital book (eBook) standard from the International Digital Publishing Forum. With Pages, you can export your documents in the EPUB format and so they can be read using the Books app on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or with third-party EPUB readers. This article provides in-depth instructions for creating a book in Pages.

To apace create a book without having to do any special formatting, you can also use predesigned book templates in Pages.

Choose your format

You tin can create a book using any Pages template, or y'all can use templates specifically designed for creating books. Portrait volume templates are based on give-and-take-processing documents, and tin can be exported as reflowable or stock-still layout EPUBs. Landscape book templates are based on folio layout documents, and tin can be exported equally fixed layout EPUBs.

Choose reflowable or fixed layout depending on how you want your content to announced in the book.

  • Reflowable: If you desire your content to conform different devices and orientations, choose reflowable. In a reflowable EPUB, text size scales, and content repaginates co-ordinate to the reader. Reflowable is best for documents that are by and large text.
  • Stock-still layout: If y'all desire the layout of each folio in your document to stay the same, regardless of the device or orientation, choose fixed layout. In a stock-still layout EPUB, users can zoom in and out, but text and content positions are fixed and don't reflow. Stock-still layout is all-time for image-heavy or multi-column documents.

Features not supported or changed when exported to EPUB

These features from your Pages document are removed or changed when you consign to EPUB, regardless of the layout you've chosen:

  • Smart fields
  • Footnotes are converted to endnotes*
  • Comments
  • Some prototype effects (similar shadows)
  • Images greater than 4 megapixels are resized to four megapixels

* If you export a stock-still layout certificate to EPUB, footnotes aren't preserved.

Features available in fixed layout only

These features from your Pages document are exported to EPUB with fixed layout only. Yous can still export documents that include these features with reflowable layout, but these features won't appear in the exported EPUB.

  • Headers and footers
  • Multiple columns
  • Folio size
  • Folio orientation
  • Page number and folio count fields
  • Line spacing
  • Hyphenation
  • Selectable text inside shapes
  • Overlapping text and objects (for example, overlapping text with an image or shape)
  • Department layout objects
  • Text wrap around objects
  • Floating objects are exported as floating (instead of converting to inline like reflowable EPUBs)
  • Tab stops
  • Shadows/Reflections
  • Linked text boxes
  • Gradient text fills, epitome text fills, or non-solid text outlines are converted to images.

Prepare a document

You can consign a page layout document as a fixed layout EPUB. You tin can export a word-processing document equally a reflowable or stock-still layout EPUB. For best results when exporting as a reflowable EPUB, use a word-processing document with inline images.

Text in reflowable EPUBs

If you export your book as reflowable, your text may expect different when viewed in the Books app or other readers:

  • Readers can select the text size they adopt while reading the book in the Books app.
  • Text sizes you lot specify in your Pages document are converted to small, medium, or big in your book and so text that is close in size inside Pages may announced at the exact aforementioned size in the EPUB.
  • Text colors in the volume might non be identical to those in your Pages document.
  • The pages in books using vertical text plough correct-to-left.
  • Gradient text fills, image text fills, or non-solid text outlines are converted to solid colors.

Create a table of contents

When you lot export to EPUB, a table of contents will automatically exist created based on the entries that appear in the tabular array of contents view in Pages. A Pages document with no entries in the table of contents view will exist exported to EPUB without a table of contents.

To view this table of contents in the EPUB book in the Books app, choose View > Table of Contents on Mac, or tap the Table of Contents button  on iPhone or iPad.

About capacity in reflowable EPUBs

In a reflowable EPUB book, chapter breaks are based on the hierarchy of styles in the table of contents of your Pages document. You tin can set your tabular array contents up and then that a affiliate interruption is inserted before the title of a chapter in your EPUB volume:

  1. In Pages, select the proper noun of a chapter in your book.
  2. Apply a title or heading paragraph mode such every bit Title, Heading, Heading ii, Heading 3, or Heading Red.
  3. Open the table of contents view, select the style you lot used, click or tap Edit, and then remove any indentation.

Each time you use this style, the content that follows becomes a new chapter in the EPUB, and a page break is inserted between chapters in a reflowable EPUB.

Use objects in reflowable EPUBs

For best results with reflowable EPUBs, reformat any images, shapes, or other objects in your document to brand them inline objects.

  1. Select or insert an object.
  2. Click or tap the Format button.
  3. Click or tap Suit.
  4. Select "Move with Text."
  5. Select "Inline with Text" from the Text Wrap menu.

Add a book comprehend

When you export your book, y'all can choose the blazon of cover you want for your book. The embrace appears in the Library in the Books app, or equally the icon on their computer.

If you cull "Choose an image," you can add a cover image from your iPhone, iPad, iPod affect, Mac, or PC. Your encompass prototype can be PDF, EPS, JPG, PSD, PNG, TIFF, or GIF format, simply must be under 4 megapixels.

If yous choose "No volume cover," your book uses the generic icon in the Library in the Books app.

Export to EPUB volume

You can export your document in the EPUB format in Pages for Mac, Pages on iPhone or iPad, or online at iCloud.com. If you've tracked changes in the document you want to consign, take or reject any changes and cease tracking changes before you consign. Tracked changes are automatically accepted if no specific action is taken.

Export with Pages for Mac

  1. Open up your certificate in Pages for Mac.
  2. Choose File > Export To > EPUB.
  3. Type in the Title and Author.
  4. Choose the blazon of cover for your EPUB book. Acquire more about covers.
  5. Cull the layout mode you desire to use. Learn how to choose the best layout for your project. When exporting a Page Layout document, information technology'south automatically exported with a fixed layout.
  6. (Optional) Nether Avant-garde Options, select a Primary Category and a Language for your volume. For a fixed layout book, choose to view your book as a unmarried folio or as a 2-page spread.
  7. To make certain the fonts you chose for your certificate appear in the EPUB, select Embed Fonts. If yous deselect Embed Fonts, your chosen font defaults to the preferred font of the reader's application. Pages can embed OpenType (OTF) and TrueType (TTF) fonts.
  8. Click Next.
  9. Enter a name for your EPUB file, then click Consign.
  10. To view your EPUB in the Books app when it'south finished exporting, double-click the file.

Export with Pages on iPhone or iPad

  1. Open your certificate in Pages.
  2. Tap the More push.
  3. Tap Export.
  4. Choose EPUB.
  5. Blazon in the Title and Author.
  6. Choose the blazon of encompass for your EPUB book. Learn more about covers.
  7. Tap the layout style you want to use. Acquire how to choose the best layout for your project. When exporting a Folio Layout document, it'southward automatically exported with a fixed layout.
  8. (Optional) Tap Advanced, then choose a Category and Linguistic communication for your volume. For a fixed layout book, cull to view your book as a single page or equally a two-folio spread.
  9. To make certain the fonts you chose for your document announced in the EPUB, select Embed Fonts. If you deselect Embed Fonts, your called font defaults to the preferred font of the reader's application. Pages can embed OpenType (OTF) and TrueType (TTF) fonts.
  10. If your certificate includes movies and you lot plan on offering your books in Apple Books, turn Apple tree Books Compatibility on to convert incompatible movies to images. Incompatible sound files are also removed.
  11. Tap Back.
  12. Tap Export to share your EPUB.
  13. To view your EPUB in the Books app when it's finished exporting, choose Copy to Books.

Export with Pages for iCloud

  1. Open your document in Pages for iCloud.
  2. Click the Tools button, then choose "Download a Re-create."
  3. Click EPUB in the download window that appears.
  4. Type in the Title and Writer.
  5. Choose the Cover style for your EPUB. Learn more well-nigh covers.
  6. Choose your layout style. Acquire how to choose the best layout for your project. If you're using a page layout document, you must consign with fixed layout.
  7. (Optional) In Advanced, choose a Category and Linguistic communication for your book. For a stock-still layout book, choose to view your book as a single page or as a two-page spread.
  8. Click Download.

Publish your book

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