Operation Manual

Add as many index pages as your book needs to hold all the images.
4 Drag images to the photo boxes to fill the index pages at the end of your book.
If you want the index pages to appear in a different position in your book, drag them in
the Pages pane.
You can also add an index of image metadata to your book.
To add a metadata index to your book
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Choose Create Index from the Book Action pop-up menu (with a gear icon) in the Book
Layout Editor.
Aperture adds metadata index pages to the end of your book and updates the index with
the metadata information from your images. You can change the metadata that appears
in the index by selecting metadata boxes and changing the metadata format using the
Set Metadata Format pop-up menu.
Set Metadata Format
pop-up menu
Removing Pages from a Book
You can remove pages from a book. Removing pages removes the contents of the page,
and remaining pages simply reflow to fill the deletion. You cannot remove the cover page
of a book.
To remove pages from a book
1 Select the page or pages you want to remove in the Pages pane of the Book Layout Editor.
You can Shift-click pages to select multiple pages.
2 Click the Delete Page button (or press the Delete key), then confirm that you want to
delete the page or pages.
Working with Pages
As you work with book pages, you can make a variety of design and text changes.
See the following sections for more information:
• Creating a Cover for Your Book
• Choosing a Master Page Layout
• Copying Pages
• Reordering Pages in a Book
761Chapter 23 Creating Books