Pages - Creating an ePub Document to Read in iBooks

Documents exported to ePub format will look different than their Pages counterparts.
If you want to get the best document fidelity between the Pages and ePub formats,
style your Pages document with paragraph styles and other formatting attributes
allowed in an ePub file. Apple provides a sample document on the Apple Support
site that features styles and guidelines to help you create a Pages document that’s
optimized for export to the ePub file format, which you can use as a template or a
guide. To learn more about using paragraph styles in Pages, see the topics in the
chapter Chapter 6, “Working with Styles,” on page 123.

To read your ePub document in iBooks on your mobile device, you must transfer the
ePub file that you create onto your device.

To use the “ePub Best Practices” sample document:
To learn more about using the ePub format and get a better feel for how a Pages
document might appear as a book in iBooks, it’s a good idea to download the “ePub
Best Practices” sample document. After reading the guidelines and instructions within
the document, you can use it as a template to create your own document. Or import
the styles from the sample document into a new document you create.

1

Download the “ePub Best Practices” sample document at the following web address:

http://images.apple.com/support/pages/docs/ePub_Best_Practices_EN.zip

2

Do either of the following:

Use the sample document as a template.

a

Create a copy of the sample document file.

b

Delete the contents of the sample document copy and type in (or paste in) your

own content.

c

Apply paragraph styles as described in the “ePub Best Practices” sample document.

Import the paragraph styles from the sample document into a new or existing
Pages document.

a

Open the Pages document to which you want to import the styles, and choose

Format > Import Styles.

b

Locate and select the ePub Best Practices sample document, and then click Open.

c

Click Select All.

d

Select the checkbox “Replace duplicates,” and then click OK.

e

Review your document to be certain that each paragraph style from the sample

document is appropriately applied to all blocks of text in your document, and
correct any misapplications of the styles.

3

Export the document you create to ePub format to see how it looks in iBooks.

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Chapter 12

Printing, Sharing, and Exporting Your Document to Other Formats

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Printing, Sharing, and Exporting Your Document to Other Formats

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To prepare an existing Pages document for export to ePub format:
Documents exported to the ePub format automatically appear with page breaks
before every chapter. A table of contents is automatically generated, which allows
readers to jump quickly to any chapter title, heading, or subheading in the book. In
order to create a meaningful table of contents, it’s important to apply appropriate
styles within your document. The ePub reader uses the paragraph styles to determine
which items should appear in the table of contents for your book.

Note: The Pages document must have been created using a word-processing template.

1

Review your document to be certain that appropriate paragraph styles are applied to

all chapter titles, headings, and subheadings in your document.
If you want additional items to appear in the table of contents generated by the ePub
file, make sure they are also styled with the correct paragraph style. Then open the
Document inspector and click TOC. Select all of the paragraph styles that you want to
appear in the TOC, and then click Update. For more information about creating a table
of contents, see “Creating and Updating a Table of Contents” on page 64.

2

Generate a table of contents in the current document, to verify that it lists only what

you expect it to (for example, chapter titles, headings, and subheadings). Correct any
errors by selecting or deselecting paragraph styles in the TOC view of the Document
inspector (as described, above).

3

Reformat any images, shapes, or other objects in your document to make them

inline objects.
To learn about inline objects, see “What Are Floating and Inline Objects?.”

To export your document to ePub format:
If you have tracked changes in the document you want to export, accept or reject
any changes and stop tracking changes before you export. Tracked changes are
automatically accepted if no specific action is taken. (See “Accepting and Rejecting
Changes.”)

1

Choose Share > Export.

2

Select “ePub” from the options shown across the top of the Export window.

3

Fill out the following fields:

Title: Type the name of the book.
Author: Type the author’s name.
Genre: Select a genre for the book from the pop-up menu, or type a new genre into
the Genre field.