Use Pages TO Convert A Text Into E Pub

Hello everyone,

Here’s how to use Pages to convert a text into ePub format to be read using iBooks.

Cheers,

Anne

Using Pages to make ePub document

     1     Open original document;

     2     Select all;

     3     Copy to clipboard;

     4     Open Pages;

     5     Select blank document;

     6     Paste text into document;

     7     Save as Pages document;

     8     Press Command-Shift-T to show the styles drawer:

     9     Stop interacting with everything and navigate twice left to find the drawer;

     10     Interact with the drawer and navigate once right to find the table of paragraph styles;

     11     Interact with this table and navigate down to Title;

     12     Bring mouse (VO-Command-F5) and do a control click to get a contextual menu;

     13     Type H for Hot Key and select one from the submenu;

     14     Repeat this process for Body and Heading 1 and as many other heading levels as the book requires;

     15     Stop interacting with the table and the drawer and return to the text;

     16     Select all and press the hot key for Body (this makes the text look right for sighted users of the iPhone);

     17     Go to the top of the document and make sure the text pointer is somewhere in the title then press the hot key for Title;

     18     Find the first chapter heading and with the text pointer in that heading, press the hot key for Heading 1;

     19     Continue through the document in this way until you reach the end;

     20     Remove any extraneous text such as a previous table of contents that has not been recognised by Pages;

     21     Create new TOC by going to the Insert menu and selecting Table of Contents;

     22     Save document then export to EPUB format;

     23     Remember to enter the requested information in the dialogue box (Title, Author, genre).

Anne Robertson <anne@anarchie.org.uk>

 

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