Hello Theresa, If you purchase the latest version of Pages from the Mac App Store for approximately $10, you can save your work as either a PDF or an eBook.
When saving, select EPUB and the help tag will say that the file will be readable in iBooks. Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 11:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Don't Seem To Be Having Much Luck Reading brf-to-Epub in IBooks; Anyone else? Hi, Mark, It's a Mac Mini running Lion. Teresa "We are made of star-stuff"--Carl Sagan, Cosmos On Apr 16, 2012, at 11:07 AM, M. Taylor wrote: > Theresa, > > Is your computer a Mac or a Windows PC? > > Mark > On Apr 16, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > >> Hi, Mark and all, >> >> Yes, and it doesn't work either. Interesting. So it's probably not the brf format that's causing the trouble. >> >> Have you tried any other converters? I can't seem to get the hang of Calibre in command-line. I think I'll try one of the online conversion tools and see how that goes. >> >> Teresa >> >> "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. Feynman >> >> On Apr 15, 2012, at 3:59 PM, M. Taylor wrote: >> >>> Hello Theresa, >>> >>> I do not use Stanza. >>> >>> However, have you tried saving a plain text file with a few sentences as an eBook and test it in iBooks? >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> >>> On Apr 15, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, all, >>>> >>>> IBooks doesn't like the epub files that I produce, for some reason. Here's what I do. >>>> >>>> I open a brf file in TextEdit, copy all the text, open Stanza, choose "new from clipboard" from the file menu, and save it as an Epub document in my ITunes Books folder. I then sync it to my IPod. It says "unknown". I experimented with changing the info tags so that they show the title and author once I enter them in manually. >>>> >>>> When I open IBooks, it hangs and is unresponsive. the Braille does not display at all, and I get a few stuttered words when I turn on speech just to experiment. (I'm aware speech can't read the books.) >>>> >>>> So I'm wondering if I'm missing any steps somewhere. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Teresa >>>> >>>> "Nobody ever tells me anything!"--James Forsyte, quoted in the Forsyte Saga >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
