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Create Textboxes
The Pressbooks textbox tool in the visual editor allows you to place text with frames to have it stand apart from the rest of the text in the body of your book. The structure and color of textboxes may vary from theme to theme. Add Textboxes to Your Book To add an empty textbox to Read more »
The Simple 5 Step Guide to Making a Book with Pressbooks
Create Your Book If you already have an account on an EDU or self-hosted Pressbooks network, you can create a book by doing the following: Login to your admin dashboard & click the ‘Create a Book‘ button: Fill in your desired webbook address and book title and click the ‘Create book‘ button. Your webbook address Read more »
Appearance
The Appearance menu allows you to make choices that affect how your webbook and export files look. In this chapter we will cover: Selecting Your Book Theme Theme Options Global Options Web Options PDF Options Ebook Options Custom Styles Selecting Your Book Theme Themes are the base of the design for your book. Pressbooks offers Read more »
Apply Custom Styles
The Custom Styles feature allows you to add CSS to your book’s stylesheet to change the default formatting for any of our themes. If you’re fluent in CSS, this means that you can customize the appearance your web, ebook (EPUB) and PDF (print and digital) files. Please note that Pressbooks does not offer support for Read more »
Lock Your Theme
Locking your theme allows you to freeze your book’s appearance exactly as it is when you’re finished working on it. This is primarily useful if you want to freeze the page count or layout for the print PDF version of your book. Updates to Pressbooks and our various themes sometimes have an impact on existing Read more »
Apply Special Formatting
This chapter presents a collection of special formatting tips and techniques that have come in handy for Pressbooks users over the years. Set Custom Indentation Rules for Selected Paragraphs Pressbooks includes “Paragraph Separation” settings in Theme Options (in Web, PDF and Ebook Options) that allow you to choose between paragraph indentation or spacing between paragraphs. Read more »
Users
Pressbooks allows multiple people to work together in a shared book project with different authoring, editing, and publishing permissions. Read on to learn about: Adding Users and Assigning Permissions Managing Users and Changing Permissions User Roles in Pressbooks Adding Users and Assigning Permissions You can access the ‘Add New Users’ interface either by selecting Users Read more »
Automatic Pages and Export-only Content
Most of your book is created by adding content and structure through the Organize tool. However, when you generate ebook and PDF exports, Pressbooks automatically generates some parts of your book, depending on the book format you’re creating and the settings you have chosen. In this chapter, we’ll cover what content is created automatically and how Read more »
Produce PDF Exports
Pressbooks outputs PDFs of your book with different professional template designs depending on the theme you’ve chosen. Pressbooks allows users to produce two different types of PDF export files: ‘PDF (for digital distribution)‘ and ‘PDF (for print)‘. PDF (for digital distribution) exports are designed to be viewed on a digital device (like a computer, tablet, Read more »
Produce Ebook (EPUB) Exports
Pressbooks makes it easy to produce the EPUB file exports for your book that you need to sell or distribute your book with popular ebook distribution services. EPUB is the standard file format used by nearly all ebook distributors: including Amazon, Apple’s iBooks, Nook, Kobo, Google Play, Smashwords and many more. NOTE: Amazon has discontinued Read more »