Important Changes For Version 2.4

"Section" changed to "Group"

From the first version, the term "Section" mentioned in CBB means a set of chapters and sub sections. It works like "folder" in file system.

However, we did not aware that "Section" has different meanings in the book. Under chapter, it contains a set of sections. Therefore, it causes a lot of confusion.

From version 2.4, the term "Section" is changed to "Group" to reflect the meanings defined in CBB.

Trash function

When you delete any elements in chapters or pages, they are moved to trash now. You can restore elements, delete elements or empty trash at any time.

Add Your Own Font

Before using your own font, you need to upload font file in TrueType or OpenType format to Google Drive first. Then you can download the font file from Google Drive to CBB in order to set up font via "Custom Font" function.

Creative Book Builder v2.4

Creative Book Builder v2.4 is released.

Here are new features:

1. Merge, delete & copy multiple books at one time

2. Add your own font

3. Trash function to restore deleted elements

4. Tap navigation bar's title to edit book name, group name, chapter name or page name

5. Look up dictionary

6. Copy pages from other fixed layout books

7. Search pages & glossary for fixed layout books

8. Word count for each chapter or page

9. Copy elements from other book to current book

10. Add image from Dropbox & Google Drive directly for cover, background, question, song & audio recording

11. Show thumbnails when selecting files from Dropbox & Google Drive

12. The term "Section" is changed to "Group" to avoid confusion

13. Fix bug for paragraph element editor

Tips for Editing Classic Book

Here are tips for editing classic book:

1. After selecting book, tap settings icon at the bottom bar and the select "Book Information" to change book information, e.g. book title, author, subject, etc.

2. Tap "+" button in chapter list view and then select "Chapter" to add new chapter.

3. After selecting chapter, tap action icon (at the bottom bar on iPhone, at the top bar in the right side on iPad) and then select "Chapter Heading" to change chapter's heading.

4. After selecting chapter, tap "+" button in element list view to add new element.

5. After selecting chapter, tap "Import" button and then tap "Document From Google Drive". After downloading document, new chapter will be imported.

6. After selecting chapter, tap "Import" button and then tap "EPUB From Dropbox / Google Drive". After downloading EPUB file, those chapters will be merged to the existing book.

7. Tap "+" button in chapter list view and then select "Section" to add new section.

8. After selecting section, tap "+" button to add new sub chapters or sub sections.

9. After selecting section, tap action icon and then select "Edit Section" to edit section name.

Creative Book Builder v2.3

Creative Book Builder v2.3 is released.

Here are new features:

1. Revamp Question Element:

• Insert image for question and answer
• Answer layout (number of columns)
• Show or hide radio button
• Radio button position

2. Change appearance for Audio Recording & Song Element:

• Use your own image
• Tap image to play or stop audio
• Option to hide audio control 

3. New Drawing Element

4. New Vimeo Video Element

5. Update Google Drive SDK

6. Import Google Document to fixed layout book

7. Import PDF as image to fixed layout book

8. Import EPUB to existing fixed layout book

9. Add glossary for fixed layout book

10. Fix bug when selecting photo from photo library

11. Fix bug for pdf version

Tips for Editing Fixed Layout Book

Here are some tips for editing fixed layout books:

1. Tap "+" button at the bottom bar to get started.

2. Tap the element displayed on the page to edit element.

3. Drag the element to move to the desired position.

4. Drag the black box at the right hand bottom corner of the element to resize the element.

5. Tap tool button at the bottom bar (next to "+" button) and select "Page Background" to change page background.

6. Tap new page button at the top bar (next to "pages" button") to add new page.

7. Tap settings button at the top bar and select "Cover Image" to change cover image.

8. Tap settings button at the top bar and select "Book Background" to change page background of all the pages.

Classic vs Fixed Layout

For those who are familiar with Classic book, here are some differences between Classic and Fixed Layout books to help you learn more about Fixed Layout books.

Classic	Fixed Layout
Consists of chapters and sections (group of sub sections and sub chapters)	Consists of pages
Each chapter has unlimited number of elements	Each page has limited number of elements since the page's size is limited
The number of pages in chapters depends on the rendering of different EPUB readers and number of elements	The number of pages is the same among different EPUB readers
Elements are displayed in the vertical ordering	Elements are absolutely positioned on the page
The term "Ordering" means the display ordering	The term "Ordering" means the layer ordering
Chapter heading is displayed on each chapter by default	Page title is not displayed on each page by default
Page Break, Anchor Bookmark, List are supported	Page Break, Anchor Bookmark, List are not supported
No page and book background	Support image as page (includes two-page spread) and book background

New Fixed Layout Books (WYSIWYG)

We are excited to announce that Creative Book Builder supports Fixed Layout now. In order to distinguish from this, all existing books are called Classic books. You can view Fixed Layout book using iBooks app on both iPad and iPhone. Editing Fixed Layout book is available on both iPad & iPhone. Editing Classic book remains unchanged.

Advantages of Fixed Layout:

1. Pages can be edited in WYSIWYG mode.
2. Page's background can be changed.
3. All elements are absolutely positioned on the page.
4. All elements can be resized.
5. Better rendering for PDF version