No LaTeX and not a single-windowed app
Theres not much to say about LaTeX, as it is not in iBooks Author. Big weakness here, especially because we definitely need a breakthrough in books about mathematics and electricity. Most of them are rather boring at the moment. Please Apple, give us the proper tools needed to build scientific books. At least it is not impossible to get equations and drawings into iBooks Author, what people can do is write an equation in an external application like Grapher or LaTeXiT and copy-paste it into iBooks Author as a PDF.
Another major letdown, while the interface is generally good and polished like only Apple would do, the most recent apps today are contained within a single window, with dockable panes inside it, which removes all the clutter from our old user interfaces, and which makes working in full-screen a whole lot easier. I hoped a new app like this would be a single-window. Basically they should put the inspector right in the main window, and make things bigger, because right now theyre very hard to see. No single-window shows where iWork 12 is heading. Meanwhile, native Lion apps, iTunes, iLife, Aperture, Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro X and Motion are the most recent apps from Apple and theyre all single-windowed apps. iWork and iBooks Author are the black sheeps in the herd.
Other than these two major let downs, the application is awesome. Ive played with it a bit and seen the demonstration on the Keynote, the workflow and the results are both impressive and incredible. Congratulations, but please fix these two major issues ASAP !
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iBooks Author, v1.0