Book Creator 2.4 is now available in the App Store! With this update we’re happy to announce many new features, all of which have been frequently requested.
Hyperlinks and richer text editing
Hyperlinks in iBooks
You can now add hyperlinks to your text and images. Link to pages in your books, external websites, send emails, and even make phone calls or open other apps!
We’ve also made improvements to text editing introducing styling of individual words with bold, italics and underline.
For more information check out How to add hyperlinks and How to style individual words.
(Styling and hyperlinks in text requires iOS 6.0 or later)
Import books
Importing from Dropbox
Import books back into Book Creator for further editing from Email, iTunes, Safari, and lots of apps including Dropbox, Google Drive and Evernote using “Open in Book Creator”.
With Book Creator 2.4 easily backup and restore individual books from an iPad, or start a book on one iPad and finish on another. Great for collaborative working across multiple iPads!
Combine Books
Combining books
With the “Combine Books” feature you can now work on sections of a book individually, even on different iPads, before combining into a final book. In the classroom this makes creating a class book from all your students’ work a simple task, or at home use this feature to set up common page layouts which you can then copy into your current book.
Accessible from the My Books screen under the + button, this will copy all the pages from a book to the end of another book. To combine two books they must have the same layout (Portrait, Square or Landscape).
For more information check out How to combine books.
Improved PDF export
Annotating in Adobe Reader app
PDF documents now export with high resolution images and vector text so that they look as good as your iBooks, perfect for sharing, printing and annotating. Hyperlinks will also work in the PDFs.
Fixes and improvements
This update also includes a few other fixes and improvements:
- The version number of Book Creator is now shown in your iPad’s Settings app.
- The Getting Started tutorial now saves any changes made to it (a few people were making books in there and losing them). You can reset the tutorial to its original content using the Inspector.
- Fix: An occasional bug affecting iOS 6 users where audio would play silently.
- Fix: A crash when converting a video with no audio channel to M4V format.
Get the update today!
The update is now available in the App Store, and free to existing users of Book Creator.
Your feedback is very important to us. If you encounter any issues, please send over a bug report through the app and we’ll look right into it, and we love to read your great reviews on the App Store.
Thank you for helping to make Book Creator the No. 1 iPad Book app in 54 countries for over 100 weeks!
Great updates to an already amazing app! Thanks for the hard work. My teachers are going to love the updates, especially combining books. Great for a class project.
I’ll download it tonight. In the meantime, I can’t wait.. is the TOC creation included in this update! Good woork, guys
Thanks! You can roll out your own TOC with this update, by creating a page with hyperlinks to individual pages. However this isn’t the same as proper epub / iBook TOC generation where you tap on the iBooks menu bar and see a textual TOC. This is on the todo list.
I’m so glad to hear that a TOC is in the works – we are using this in my classroom, and it would be great if students could more easily organize their book into different sections. Thanks!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Have been waiting for this update since last fall!
-Rich
Hello.
Great work on the update. Just wondering if there is now an option for describing images for people who are visually impaired and who read these books with VoiceOver.
Thanks. Great app.
Hi Luis,
It’s still on the todo list I’m afraid.
Dan
Hi,
In the PDF export there used to be an option to have the book binding show. Is this now gone?
Csaba
I’m afraid so. The new update adds a much improved PDF export with high resolution images and vector text. This added a lot of complexity to the PDF export, and we made the decision to remove the book binding to keep it as a simple as possible.
I updated to iOS 6 last night and now my book pages will not flip back to the previous page when I touch the left side page in the corners. They will flip back if I hold the page and drag it to the right, though. Is this a bug or have I not properly applied a setting? By the way, I love the app and have been telling my author friends about it.
Jim – If you tap on the left edge of the book does it advance forward instead of backwards? If so you can change this in your Settings app, under iBooks. There is an entry called “Both Margins Advance” to turn off.
Is there a way to edit the cover page? Can it be replaced with another page?
The cover can be edited just like any other page – you can add and delete items from it. The only restrictions is that you can’t re-arrange it in the Pages popover.
Hope that helps,
Dan