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Objects

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- As you lay out your book in iBooks Author, a key concept that you need to grasp is the use of objects. Now iBooks Author considers anything that you place on a layout to be an object. This includes shapes, charts or graphs, photographs, tables of data, interactive widgets that include things such as movies. Even text boxes are considered to be an object when they're placed on a page inside of iBooks Author. Now all objects have a variety of different properties associated with them that can all be controlled through the Inspector, and there's three primary Inspectors that control nearly all objects. The first of these is the Graphics Inspector. The Graphics Inspector controls properties such as the objects fill, it's stroke, any drop shadows that are applied around the object, and the opacity of the object. The next Inspector is the Metrics Inspector. This one controls the size of the object, the position that the object is placed on the page, and even the rotation and orientation…

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