![]() ![]() I have also written a detailed tutorial on how to use Scrivener to create an iBook for iTunes. Now that you have made these changes, each of your iBook pages will look exactly as you want them to look. You will have to scroll through the layout menu to find the other template pages such as “copyright” and “dedication” to make them look like your other pages or you can make them look however you desire. With over 235 unique layouts, users can choose from different cooking-themed designs such as Modern Chef and Cooking Tutorial. As stated, I would probably lighten the background paper image a bit to make it more readable. Cookbook Templates iBooks Author Edition is an app that offers 10 visually stunning and interactive cookbook-focused templates for iBooks Author. If you don’t like it, you can always go back and change it. When I click “Apply Changes” the template for Chapter Text will be changed to fit what I have been designing up to now. Here I am changing the background paper by selecting “fill” -> “image fill” then choosing this scraped and rusted metal public domain photoshop background. Keeping with the basic ePub 3 standard, ePub templates remove floating text boxes, charts, shapes, and all widgets beyond the gallery and media boxes. I can even modify the background paper (even though I would probably lighten this image a bit before using it to make the text more readable) This gives the iBook a different feel. Understand that you probably want to keep the gutter sizes and other details the same because Apple is a little picky about iBooks looking just right. I can change the font size, modify the color of the font, or do a plethora of other things to the template. I can use the built in “inspector” to modify anything I want about this template. ![]() I’ll leave the main body text alone, but I could modify that as well if I want to. Templates for iBooks Author Publisher Edition is a collection of 50 high quality, spectacular templates for Apple’s application for book creation and publishing. I am publishing “This Broken Earth” (my post-apocalyptic extravaganza) as an iBook, so I will want my fonts to have a look that suits that genre. I can now select any font I want on this template and change it to a default setting of my choosing. Step 2 – Select the little Layout button (shown here) and then select “Show Layouts”. For this tutorial, I am choosing the “Once Upon a Time” template, but any old template will do. However, I found a quick and easy 7 step process to creating completely custom templates for iBook Author and am offering this tutorial free to you, the indie author. I have searched the web far and wide to find awesome pre-made templates for iBook Author, because it seemed to me that I could not modify the pre-made templates at all.
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