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Previewing the finished iBook - iBooks Author Tutorial

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Previewing the finished iBook

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- Now let's preview our finished iBook. In the exercise files movie, we showed you how to get the iBook onto your iPad. Now, go ahead and open up the book inside of iBooks on your iPad. When the book opens for the first time, a short video should play. (upbeat techno music) You are then taken to the table of contents for the pagination view of our book. Thumbnails at the bottom of the screen show you each individual page within each chapter. You can navigate between chapters by swiping from side to side across the screen, as if you were turning the pages of a physical book. To read the contents of a page, touch the thumbnails at the bottom and then continue swiping as you read. To return to the pagination view's table of contents, pinch in on the screen. One of the most exciting things about creating your book in iBooks Author is that you can add interactive widgets to your book. In the Taste of California chapter, there are several examples, including an embedded video, an interactive keynote presentation, and an embedded 3D object. With any embedded object, you can interact with the content directly on the page, or you can use a pinch out gesture to open the object to full screen. Pinch in to close the interaction and return to the book. There are several other embedded widgets throughout this book, including an interactive Google map, a photo gallery, a quiz, and a few others. When you reach the end of a chapter, swipe to begin reading the next chapter. One of my favorite features of iBooks Author is the precise control you have over the layout of images and typography on a page. I'll show you all the tricks you'll need to know to bring your own books to life. Thus far on this tour, I've kept my iPad in the landscape-orientation and we've been looking at the pagination view of our book. As I rotate my iPad up to the portrait view, you'll notice that my layout has remained exactly as I designed it in the pagination view. On all iOS devices running iOS 8 or newer, your reader has the ability to change from the pagination view to the scroll view of your book by touching the View icon and changing to the scroll view version of your book. Once in this mode, a reader will experience your book in a completely new way. The contents of your book will scroll vertically, providing a reading experience similar to that of a word processing document on a computer screen. The interactive widgets we saw earlier get moved to the side bar but much of the imagery and layout will be hidden from view, allowing the reader to focus on the text. You can access the scroll view table of contents by pinching in on the screen. This table of contents expands to reveal additional sections and headings for each chapter. Touching a heading will take you directly to that page. The scroll view also handles rotation. It can be used in either the portrait or the landscape view of the device. To return to the pagination view, the user must change their settings to disable the scroll view. I encourage you to take some time and flip through this whole training book in both views so as we are building the rest of this book, you can begin each lesson with the end goal in mind. Okay, let's dive into building the Explore California Travel Guide in iBooks Author.

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