Weirdly, though, the aforementioned 1024x768 page size isn't anywhere close to the recommended cover sizes for iBooks (1600x2400) or Kindle (1563x2500) files. Pages offers a Novel template with a cool-looking cover whose image and title you can adjust to your liking. If you must, you can go the lazy route, select "No Cover" in the Cover section, and let iBooks generate a generic cover with just the title and author name.Īlternately, you can make the first page of the ebook your cover. Since most people do, alas, judge a book by its cover, you'll probably want one for your ebook. It's a snap to specify title and author if you want to add category and language information, you'll find them hiding under the Advanced Options section.
Once you're happy with formatting, select File > Export To > EPUB to bring up the export dialog box. But for reflowable ebooks on different-sized screens, this won't always accurately show you how your final book will look, and there's no way to preview your finished ebook without publishing it. By default, Pages sets its blank book template to the equivalent of 1024x768 resolution - a common screen size for Kindles, and the minimum resolution found on pre-Retina iPads. My one real gripe with this part of the process: It's not quite what-you-see-is-what-you-get. I just had to specify that the image would "move with text" under the Arrange pane of the inspector, and then make room for each instance within the text. I think this feature's built more for people who break books up into sections, and then chapters within those sections.Īdding a small ornament graphic to break up sections gave me much less trouble. This meant that if I wanted to have the chapter number in one style, but the name in another, as you can see in the example above, I couldn't include both styles in the TOC, unless I wanted weird page breaks – annoying, but not too big of a problem. Once a style becomes part of the table, Pages automatically creates a page break before it (assuming you haven't already done so manually).
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