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What is Booktype?

What is Booktype? With Booktype you can create books. Real paper books that look good and you can hold in your hands. You can also use Booktype to produce books in the form of epub (electronic books),...

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Creating an Account

Creating an Account After arriving at Booktype you will first need to create a user account before starting on your book!. Account creation is simple:   Under Create Account add your desired USERNAME,...

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My Dashboard

My DashboardYour Dashboard helps you to manage your books and groups. edit a number of settings to customise your appearance on Booktype, and communicate with others. To view your settings visit your...

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Creating a Book

Creating a Book All books are created from your Dashboard using the Book Wizard.   Click on CREATE NEW BOOKThe Book Wizard will open asking for the title of the book. This is the only required...

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Creating Chapters

Creating Chapters Once a new book is created click on the edit button next to the title of the new book on your Dashboard to open the book's editing page. You can also access an edit button from the...

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Editing a Chapter

Editing a Chapter Once you have created chapters, content needs to be added to them (text and images). This is probably how you will be spending most of your time in Booktype; writing material,...

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The Table of Contents

The Table of Contents Once several chapters have been created and developed, it is time to organise and order your Table of Contents. Adding Sections to your Table of Contents To add sections to a...

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Adding Images

Adding Images When you want to add images start editing the chapter you want to add images to, get your cursor in the right place and click the import images button. When the Insert Image window opens....

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Publishing

PublishingBooktype can publish to several channels and output formats. If you do not see the one you want listed then Booktype can be extended to include it since it is an Open Source software. Lets...

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Communicating

Communication When collaborating on a book, communication is a vital part of the process, whether working in a book sprint, taking your time on more long-term book generation, working locally in the...

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Creating a Group

Creating a Group Sometimes the group you want to join isn't there yet, so this is your opportunity to blaze a trail and start up a group of your very own. Visit your Dashboard. Once the page loads you...

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Joining a Group

Joining a Group After joining Booktype you may want to jump right in and create a book, you might also wish to find and work with others on a book.  For this reason Booktype has groups to bring people...

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Adding a Book to a Group

Adding a Book to a GroupOnce you have created or imported a book into Booktype, it will sit in the Books list on your user page. As a member of a group often you want your books in the Group's list of...

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Formless Content

Formless ContentThere is a lot of interesting stuff happening to the page right now. The page is changing in so many ways – time based media is making its way into book pages, reactive content,...

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Adding CSS

Adding CSSSo, all outputs are controlled by CSS. That is because we use the Webkit browsing engine to render our PDF with a few bells an whistles. Rule based design is something people have to get used...

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Learn by Sharing

Learn by SharingTo understand the relationship between CSS and the final result there is no substitute for trial and error. Designers must first understand how a ‘web native’ technology — CSS — applies...

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Table of Contents Style

Table of Contents StyleYou can also change the style of the Table of Contents at the front of the book. To do this you must open the Advanced CSS panel and look at the Booktype CSS field: Here you can...

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Sections

SectionsBooks in Booktype are separated into sections and chapters. A section is a collection of chapters. Sections have a page in the book formatted PDF which lists the chapters in that section. It is...

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Front Page

Front PageThe style of the front page text (which just displays the title of the book) can be altered with the following CSS (found in Booktype ONLY CSS panel): h1.frontpage{ page-break-after:always;...

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Footers

FootersFooters can be styled with the following code for example (also found in the Booktype only CSS Panel): #right-footer { text-align: right; } #left-footer { text-align: left; }  

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