In this video I'll show you how to publish a
simple e-pub file directly from pages.
So let's get started.
The first thing I want to do is select a blank
template in pages.
You must start with a blank template to publish
to epub since youll need to control all the
formatting and styles yourself.
Ive already removed all the formatting from my
text and im going to paste it into my blank pages
document.
I'm going to access the style drawer by clicking
the blue icon in the upper left corner of the screen.
And that will show me all the styles that I can
apply back to my unformatted text.
The first thing I am going to do is apply the body
paragraph style to all of my text, and im doing that
because most of my text will have that style so
ill just go ahead and apply it to everything and
go back and make changes where I need to.
And for this text ive decided that each part of
the book will be a chapter and each section that's
already identified in the text will also be a
section in my e-pub.
I want all the chapters to be identified using the
heading one style, and all the sections will be
identified by the heading two style.
So to add the heading one style to the text, ill
select it and choose the heading one style from the
styles drawer.
And now ill change the style of my section
headers to my heading two.
In this document, those are the only styles that I
want to use.
So ill go ahead and close this and open a version of
the document of which ive already applied heading
one and heading two styles where I need to throughout
the document.
Okay, so now that that's done, my next step is to
create a table of contents.
I need to do this here because that actually
become my table of contents in my finished
e-book.
To create that, go to the insert menu then choose
table of contents.
Notice I am creating my table of contents on the
first page before my text begins.
Ill just add a page break now so that that's all
that there is on this page.
This is a very important point to make: instead of
adding returns or spaces to separate your texts, if
you want a page break, say at the end of a chapter of
at the end of a section, add those in pages instead
of adding returns or things like that because
that's the only way that it will display correctly
when you publish to e-pub.
Okay, so now my document inspector pops up to help
me out, going back to the table of contents.
Here, ill leave any text formatting that I want to
appear in my table of contents.
In my case, anything that is a heading one or a
heading two I want that to appear in the table of
contents.
Once I do that, you can see that pages builds my
table of contents for me and when I publish to epub
format, ill be able to tap these to navigate through
my e-book.
Now I have just one more thing left to do, which is
to create the book cover.
In pages, the first page of the book is the book
cover, so that's where ill put the book title and the
author and an image that makes it easy to recognize
my book on a bookshelf.
Now, ive actually already done that in another
document to save time, so ill open that up to show
you.
So here is my book cover, table of contents, my
chapter, and sections all formatted the way that I
want them.
And I just got this image from the original text and
ive also placed some images that appear in the
original text into my pages document.
Those images will be published right along with
the text when I publish my e-pub file.
The only thing left to do at this point...
I have my table of contents, I have my book
cover, I have my chapters and sections all formatted
to the way I want them...
really, all that's left to do is publish to epub
format.
To do that, you file -> export -> epub.
And here you would type in title and author
information.
Click next and save the file.
To view the file, all you need to do is open it in
an e-reader or other mobile device like an
ipad.
And once you open it, you can see it on your
bookshelf and access it later.
Here is what my published epub looks like on my
ibooks bookshelf.
I'll just tap the file to open it.
As you can see, I can page through it either using
the slider at the bottom of the screen or just by
flipping through the pages.
All of my formatting that I set up in pages was
retained when I published.
It has all of the epub functionality that you'd
expect to find.
If I tap here, I can view the table of contents, I
can navigate to any of the sections from here, and
once im at any point in the book I can always
continue to flip through from that point.
I can bookmark, I can change the font size or
brightness, and I can even change the type of font im
using.
I can also search for a term.
And I can select one
of these results to go to that page.
I can also highlight some text and write a note.
And I can see my notes by going back to the table of
contents and choosing the notes tab.
I can also see my bookmarks by choosing the
bookmarks tab.
And I can always go back to the last page I was on
by pressing the resume button.
And finally, I can touch library to close the book
and return to my bookself.
I hope ive been able to guide you through the
process of creating a fully functional epub file
directly from pages.
Thank you for watching.