Re: PDFs, Tables of Contents and iBooks

2013-06-19 Thread Pamela J Francis
Hi Nick, This is only a suggestion. Contact Mike Calvo at the Seroteck corporation. He published a short book on Ibooks. If you are not familiar with him, he is the CEO of Serotek, a company primarily employed by blind people in both software & some hardware development. His book is titled Clou

Re: PDFs, Tables of Contents and iBooks

2013-06-19 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Nisus Writer Pro opens PDFs? Wow, you're blowing my mind! I'll definitely give this a go. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsub

Re: PDFs, Tables of Contents and iBooks

2013-06-19 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. You can open the PDF in nisus writer pro, and when mark up your headings for table of content quick and easy, and when save as epub. Best Annie. Den Jun 17, 2013 kl. 8:04 PM skrev Nicholas Parsons : > Seems it's only possible to get PDFs into iBooks Author by copying and > pasting the tex

Re: PDFs, Tables of Contents and iBooks

2013-06-17 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Seems it's only possible to get PDFs into iBooks Author by copying and pasting the text. As the books I'm talking about are thousands of pages long this wouldn't really be feasible. Word and Pages documents can be imported into iBooks Author with each file becoming a new chapter. This is exactly

Re: PDFs, Tables of Contents and iBooks

2013-06-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Nick, Pages can create epub documents with a table of contents readable by iBooks. You'd need to copy the text from the PDFs into Pages then set all the headings to the correct levels. Pages can then create a table of contents and you can export the file to EPUB format. Cheers, Anne O

Re: PDFs, Tables of Contents and iBooks

2013-06-17 Thread Nicholas Parsons
It's certainly worth looking into. Thanks, Tim! I guess for now that would mean I could only read them on an iPad, which I don't yet have, but when Mavericks comes out I'll be able to read them on my Mac too. Woot! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "M

Re: PDFs, Tables of Contents and iBooks

2013-06-17 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I've not tried this, but I wonder if iBooks Author would do this for you? Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-06-17, at 11:13 AM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > Dear listers, > > Does anyone know whether it's possible, and if so how, to do any of the > following? > > 1. C