Jul 06, 2005 Wake an entire subnet? Discussion in 'UK Macs' started by Bonge Boo!, Jul 3, 2005. Page 2 of 2 2. Simon Slavin Guest. The card has got to grok the packet, and Open Firmware/the BIOS has got to support waking up too. Welcome to Mac. Pages lets you create stunning documents on a Mac, iPad, or iPhone — or on a PC using iWork for iCloud. And it’s compatible with Apple Pencil. MacBook takes full advantage of the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.2 wireless technologies — and with innovative Apple software and services that let you get the most out of them, you can wirelessly connect to the web, transfer files, organize your photos, listen to music, and more. We’ve redesigned Pages, Numbers, and Keynote to work even better with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Now, more features are supported, including commenting, conditional formatting, and bubble charts. And each update adds greater compatibility. MacRumors attracts a broad audience of both consumers and professionals interested in the latest technologies and products. We also boast an active community focused on purchasing decisions and technical aspects of the iPhone, iPod, iPad, and Mac platforms.
Even before, Apple offered the average Mac user a way to build basic ebooks through its word-processing software, Pages. Now, after four years of stagnation, the company has (surprisingly) started improving the app’s ePub export capabilities. Here’s a look at what’s changed (and what still needs work). Four years of silence Pages originally debuted its ebook export option back. Like its Word export feature, Pages’s ebook export could only translate certain aspects of your document into ePub format (the primary filetype used by iBooks as well as most non-Amazon readers available at the time); so, for example, certain text stylings and rich text elements might not appear correctly in the ePub. Additionally, many of those elements required very precise formatting in the Pages document in order to actually appear in the exported file. When iBooks Author was released, I gave up hope that Apple would fix Pages's outdated ebook export.
Apple provided interested ebook-makers with some basic guidelines and an externally-linked template, but both had omissions and offered clunky workarounds in compensation for missing features. I had the privilege of experiencing most of those in my daily work: We used Pages for a full year to build our Macworld Superguides ebooks before switching to a Word/InDesign workflow, and my frustration with the software led to and a. After two years went by without any improvement to Pages’s tools, I assumed Apple’s ebook engineers were working elsewhere and when iBooks Author was released, those presumptions seemed to have been confirmed. Why would Apple focus its energy on a a limited export option that could never fully reflect the original version when it had iBooks Author to work on?
The joke’s on me Despite iBooks Author’s existence, it turns out that there’s at least one engineer on the iWork team still interested in ePub export. When the new version of the iWork suite was released, I discovered that someone had snuck into Pages 5.0 a bunch of fixes for some of the most glaring ebook export problems. For example, you can now manually insert page breaks into an ebook by using Pages’s break tools, rather than having to use the template’s “Chapter Heading” template to do so. But that’s not all: last week actually mentioned “improved ePub export” in its release notes, and added a few more fixes. That’s right: Not only did someone take the time to improve ePub export for Pages 5.0, but they seem to actively be working on making it better with future releases.
Why restart development on Pages’s ebook export tools now? My bet’s on making sure there are (semi) usable tools for authors looking to publish ebooks to the iPhone. Controle de verso do team foundation tfvcu. IBooks Author doesn’t yet (and may never have) an iPhone export option, and given that authors can prep iBooks Author books in Pages, better tools in the word-processing program are a great way to ensure that Apple’s products stay relevant in the ebook-creation game. What you can (and can’t) do for ebooks in Pages 5.2 Though Pages 5.2 gives a generalized warning upon export, it's not always clear what you did wrong.
Given that Apple’s support document for ebook-making hasn’t been updated since December, it’s a little hard for the average user to figure out what will and won’t translate when you export to ePub. Pages 5.2 does pop up a boilerplate disclaimer after ebook generation, but it’s hard to know from that exactly what you’re doing that’s wrong. So in a nutshell, here’s what you can (and can’t) expect from an ebook generated with Pages 5.2.
What you can expect It’s ePub 3-compliant: For those who care little about the backend of the ebook-publishing process, is the newest version of the standard, and lets you use more styles and tools than ePub 2. The biggest changes: It simplifies some backend code and uses HTML5 and CSS3 for ePub’s XHTML standards, which means ebooks can incorporate things like video, audio, custom fonts, special CSS transitions, and more. Pages only supports export for some of these right now, but being able to generate an ePub 3 file is a huge step in the right direction. This little bit of code means that the Pages export generates an ePub 3 document. It can have video and audio: Thanks to its ePub 3 backbone, the ebook export engine in Pages 5.2 will preserve any audio and video that you add to your document.