(Amazon’s Kindle is the exception, relying on both the old and simplified MOBI spec for older readers, and a modified version of EPUB called KF8 for its newer hardware.)Ĭreating ebooks via Pages templates allows a streamlined and end-to-end workflow. (Version 7 adds more shapes, and they’re editable, too.)Īcross those releases, Apple gradually improved support for the EPUB standard, including an upgrade to allow EPUB 3 exports, which allow interactive components and fixed layouts that resemble PDFs but work with standard ebook-reading software and hardware.
Version 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 refined and put into production better collaborative editing, while bringing back RTF (Rich Text Format) import and export, Touch Bar support, document-wide font replacement, internal bookmarks, PDF table of content export, and 500 additional shapes. In the actual 6.0 version, Apple mostly offered a beta release of real-time collaboration. The last time we reviewed Pages for macOS was version 5.6, which added significant typographic and other support, and should probably have been numbered 6.0.
With both facing-page layout and side-by-side views, you can better work with and design books and large documents.
