From the course: Creating a Photo Book with iBooks Author

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Connecting an iPad to preview your work

Connecting an iPad to preview your work - iBooks Author Tutorial

From the course: Creating a Photo Book with iBooks Author

Connecting an iPad to preview your work

- As you design, it's often a good idea to really understand what's happening with that design. And to do that, I recommend previewing. You can preview both on your computer or a tablet. To do this, you'll just need to connect the device. Take a lightning cable, and then simply connect it to your computer and connect it to your tablet. This will have the benefit of both charging the tablet while you're working and ensure that it's properly connected. Now, once you're in iBooks Author, you should be able to turn on the preview. From the File menu, I can choose File, Preview. And you see that both the computer and the tablet come up. This allows me to do a few different things. For example, I can preview on just the computer. And it will send the book over to iBooks. It loads it in. And I can get an idea on how those pages are going to look. However, I don't see any of the interactivity necessarily. Let's go ahead and switch back to iBooks Author. And I'm going to open up the completed…

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