Epub Metadata Editor For Mac

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The EPUB format is an open digital book (eBook) standard from the International Digital Publishing Forum. With Pages, you can export your documents in the EPUB format so they can be read using the Books app on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or with third-party EPUB readers. This article provides in-depth instructions for creating a book in Pages.

To edit content in your.epub file you will first need to open the folder into its component parts. You can learn how to open an ePub file here. Once you have your files un-packaged simply open the folder. You should see a file called ”META-INF” or similar. This file should contain a metadata.xml or similar file.

To quickly create a book without having to do any special formatting, you can also use predesigned book templates in Pages.

Choose your format

You can create a book using any Pages template, or you can use templates specifically designed for creating books. Portrait book templates are based on word-processing documents, and can be exported as Reflowable or Fixed layout EPUBs. Landscape book templates are based on page layout documents, and can be exported as Fixed layout EPUBs.

Choose Reflowable or Fixed layout depending on how you want your content to appear in the book.

  • Reflowable: If you want your content to accommodate different devices and orientations, choose Reflowable. In a Reflowable EPUB, text size scales, and content repaginates according to the reader. Reflowable is best for documents that are mostly text.
  • Fixed layout: If you want the layout of each page in your document to stay the same, regardless of the device or orientation, choose Fixed layout. In a Fixed layout EPUB, users can zoom in and out, but text and content positions are fixed and don't reflow. Fixed layout is best for image-heavy or multi-column documents.

Features not supported or changed when exported to EPUB

These features from your Pages document are removed or changed when you export to EPUB, regardless of the layout you've chosen:

  • Smart fields
  • Footnotes are converted to endnotes*
  • Comments
  • Some image effects (like shadows)
  • Images greater than 4 megapixels are resized to 4 megapixels

* If you export a Fixed layout document to EPUB, footnotes aren't preserved.

Features available in Fixed Layout only

These features from your Pages document are exported to EPUB with Fixed Layout only. You can still export documents that include these features with Reflowable layout, but these features won't appear in the exported EPUB.

  • Headers and footers
  • Multiple columns
  • Page size
  • Page orientation
  • Page number and page count fields
  • Line spacing
  • Hyphenation
  • Selectable text inside shapes
  • Overlapping text and objects (for example, overlapping text with an image or shape)
  • Master objects
  • Text wrap around objects
  • Floating objects are exported as floating (instead of converting to inline like Reflowable EPUBs)
  • Tab stops
  • Shadows/Reflections
  • Linked text boxes
  • Gradient text fills, image text fills, or non-solid text outlines are converted to images.

Prepare a document

In Pages, you can export any page layout document to Fixed layout, and any word-processing document to Fixed layout or Reflowable layout. For best results when exporting as a Reflowable EPUB, use a word-processing document with inline images.

Text in Reflowable EPUBs

If you export your book as Reflowable, your text may look different when viewed in the Books app or other readers:

  • Readers can select the text size they prefer while reading the book in the Books app.
  • Text sizes you specify in your Pages document are converted to small, medium, or large in your book so text that is close in size within Pages may appear at the exact same size in the EPUB.
  • Text colors in the book might not be identical to those in your Pages document.
  • The pages in books using vertical text turn right-to-left.
  • Gradient text fills, image text fills, or non-solid text outlines are converted to solid colors.

Create a table of contents

When you export to EPUB, a table of contents will automatically be created based on the entries that appear in the table of contents view in Pages. A Pages document with no entries in the table of contents view will be exported to EPUB without a table of contents.

To view this table of contents in the EPUB book in the Books app, choose View > Table of Contents on Mac, or tap the Table of Contents button on iPhone or iPad.

About chapters in Reflowable EPUBs

In a Reflowable EPUB book, chapter breaks are based on the hierarchy of styles in the table of contents of your Pages document. You can set your table contents up so that a chapter break is inserted before the title of a chapter in your EPUB book:

  1. In Pages, select the name of a chapter in your book.
  2. Apply a title or heading paragraph style such as Title, Heading, Heading 2, Heading 3, or Heading Red.
  3. Open the table of contents view, select the style you used, click or tap Edit, then remove any indentation.

Each time you use this style, the content that follows becomes a new chapter in the EPUB, and a page break is inserted between chapters in a Reflowable EPUB.

Use objects in Reflowable EPUBs

For best results with Reflowable EPUBs, reformat any images, shapes, or other objects in your document to make them inline objects.

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  1. Select or insert an object.
  2. Click or tap the Format button .
  3. Click or tap Arrange.
  4. Select 'Move with Text.'
  5. Select 'Inline with Text' from the Text Wrap menu.

Add a book cover

When you export your book, you can choose the type of cover you want for your book. The cover appears in the Library in the Books app, or as the icon on their computer.

If you choose 'Choose an image', you can add a cover image from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or PC. Digital anarchy flicker free crack. Your cover image can be PDF, EPS, JPG, PSD, PNG, TIFF, or GIF format, but must be under 4 megapixels.

If you choose 'No book cover', your book uses the generic icon in the Library in the Books app.

Export to EPUB book

You can export your document in the EPUB format in Pages for Mac, Pages on iPhone or iPad, or online at iCloud.com. If you've tracked changes in the document you want to export, accept or reject any changes and stop tracking changes before you export. Tracked changes are automatically accepted if no specific action is taken.

Export with Pages for Mac

  1. Open your document in Pages for Mac.
  2. Choose File > Export To > EPUB.
  3. Type in the Title and Author.
  4. Choose the type of cover for your EPUB book. Learn more about covers.
  5. Choose the layout style you want to use. Learn how to choose the best layout for your project. When exporting a Page Layout document, it's automatically exported with a Fixed layout.
  6. (Optional) Under Advanced Options, select a Primary Category and a Language for your book.
  7. To make sure the fonts you chose for your document appear in the EPUB, select Embed Fonts. If you deselect Embed Fonts, your chosen font defaults to the preferred font of the reader's application. Pages can embed OpenType (OTF) and TrueType (TTF) fonts.
  8. Click Next.
  9. Enter a name for your EPUB file, then click Export.
  10. To view your EPUB in the Books app when it's finished exporting, double-click the file.

Export with Pages on iPhone or iPad

  1. Open your document in Pages.
  2. Tap the More button .
  3. Tap Export.
  4. Choose EPUB.
  5. Type in the Title and Author.
  6. Choose the type of cover for your EPUB book. Learn more about covers.
  7. Tap the layout style you want to use. Learn how to choose the best layout for your project. When exporting a Page Layout document, it's automatically exported with a Fixed layout.
  8. (Optional) Tap Advanced, then choose a Category and Language for your book.
  9. To make sure the fonts you chose for your document appear in the EPUB, select Embed Fonts. If you deselect Embed Fonts, your chosen font defaults to the preferred font of the reader's application. Pages can embed OpenType (OTF) and TrueType (TTF) fonts.
  10. If your document includes movies and you plan on offering your books in Apple Books, turn Apple Books Compatibility on to convert incompatible movies to images. Incompatible audio files are also removed.
  11. Tap Back.
  12. Tap Export to share your EPUB.
  13. To view your EPUB in the Books app when it's finished exporting, choose Copy to Books.

Export with Pages for iCloud

  1. Open your document in Pages for iCloud.
  2. Click the Tools button , then choose 'Download a Copy.'
  3. Click EPUB in the download window that appears.
  4. Type in the Title and Author.
  5. Choose the Cover style for your EPUB. Learn more about covers.
  6. Choose your layout style. Learn how to choose the best layout for your project. If you're using a Page Layout document, you must export with Fixed layout.
  7. (Optional) In Advanced, choose a Category and Language for your book.
  8. Click Download.

Publish your book

You can publish your book directly to Apple Books from Pages on your iPad, iPhone, Mac, or online at iCloud.com.

As an eBook reader, we may always find there are some eBooks have wrong metadata or miss some important information, especially when the book is downloaded from the internet such as torrent sites, unfortunately, it's always ePub format.

But don't worry, there are many useful tools can help us edit the epub books metadata, in this post, I will recommend you a very powerful ePub metadata editor, it's free and very easy to use.

Someone may don't know what's the meaning of metadata, in fact it's very simple, metadata is the basic information of a book, including the book title, cover, author, publisher and publish data, ISBN or ASIN number, sometimes it contains a brief introduction of the book. It helps us identify the book and manage our eBooks in an easy way.

Powerful Features of ePub Metadata Editor - Epubor

Epubor is a free ePub metadata editor with a clean and user-friendly interface.

* Edit author, title, series, type, and other metadata of ePub eBooks easily;

* Replace the cover for your ePub books;

* Edit different formats' ( such as MOBI, AZW3, PDF, DOC) metadata;

* Convert the ePub books to another format;

In fact, Epubor is more than an ePub metadata editor, it's an eBook converter and eBook Manager for both mac and win users. You can download the program below.

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Step1: Add Books to Epubor

Since Epubor is an all-in-one tool, only books imported to Epubor library can be edit. Epubor provides three ways to import your eBooks to Epubor Library. First, you can set your favorite folder at settings to locate your eBooks and the program will automatically display it in the right column; Second, click 'Add' button in the center interface; Third, you can simply drag and drop books to the Epubor library from Kindle/Kobo device, Kindle/Kobo app, ADE, Calibre and so on.

Step2: Edit ePub metadata information

Once loaded the ePub books to the program, it will display the book in the main interface. There are two ways to edit the metadata.

Method 1:

To edit the ePub metadata, click the 'edit' button on the top center menu in the main interface, it will bring you to this window:

In this window, you can edit all the necessary information of the book, such as the title, author, data, identifiers (ISBN or ASIN number), language, publishers. If you like, you can also write a short introduction of the book.

You can see this book is the lack of ISBN, type the ISBN or leave it whatever you like. Perhaps you don’t like the cover? Or maybe the book imported without a cover image? Click 'replace' button to change or add a cover which you like.

Method 2:

In the right bottom of the interface, you will find a tool-tips'show/die book details'. Click it, the book details will be displayed at the right column. It will allow you edit the Title, Author, Language, Publisher, Tags and Ratings directly. Or if you want to further edit this book, please just click on ' Edit More' button to go to the edit page in method 1.

Step3: Save the Metadata Information

After finished editing process, click 'finished' button, and the window will be close up, the new metadata is just saved.

Note: For DRM protected ePub Books, you need to remove the DRM from ePub books first. Only by drm removed, the books' data can be edit.

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Jonny Greenwood joined Epubor since 2011, loves everything about eBooks and eReaders. He seeks the methods to read eBooks more freely and wants to share all he has got with you.