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Manipulating objects on a page - iBooks Author Tutorial
From the course: iBooks Author Essential Training
Manipulating objects on a page
- Now let's begin working on our call out by manipulating some of these objects. Let's first start with the rounded rectangle. Go ahead and grab that object and drag in into the middle area of your page. The first thing we need to do is resize this object say that it's approximately 200 pixels wide by 280 pixels tall. There's a couple of ways we can do this. The easiest is to simply make sure that your object is selected by clicking on it and then use the handle on the lower right hand corner to click and drag. And as soon as you do, a text window pops up to show you the size of your object. So we can click and drag this object until we get to our 200 pixels wide and then drag down until we get to 280 pixels high. Now it may take a little bit of maneuvering in order to get the file exactly right. If you can't get it exactly right, then the easiest thing to do is make sure that the image is still selected, then go up to the Inspector, go over to the Metrics Inspector and then you can…
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Objects7m 16s
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Adding objects2m 26s
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Manipulating objects on a page3m 24s
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Layering objects together1m 36s
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Changing an object's appearance7m 15s
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Titles, labels, captions & descriptions5m 25s
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Adding accessibility text to objects1m 35s
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