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Old 07-24-2011, 05:16 AM   #1
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Question Better formatting in Pages for iBooks/Stanza?

Hi! I received an iPad for my birthday, and I love the iBooks app. Since I had a copy of iWork Pages, I tried making an ePub with it, and the results were quite good. Some minor formatting issues (orphans mainly), but nothing bad.

However, when I looked at it on Stanza/iPad I was disappointed at how much worse it looked. The pages are too wide (is there no double-page layout?), headings are too small and centred rather than left-justified, the illustrations are left-justified rather than centred, inter-paragraph margins default to being too big, footnotes don't work, the invert-screen button hides the text, and the app crashes a lot with unhandled exceptions.

Are there any tricks to format a book in Pages that works better with Stanza? Or is Stanza just, well, not as good?

I was using the Pages template, though - perhaps that's the problem...

file is at http://clock24.nfshost.com/counting-time.html if examining it helps
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