The Producer page

An overview of the Producer page

On the Producer page you will see:

• A link back to the Dashboard on the top left of the page

• The Title of your book

• The Book Metadata button, to open the Book Metadata modal (where you can edit the book title and other metadata, described in detail in the Book Metadata chapter of this guide)

• The list of chapters in the left sidebar

• An icon to add new blank chapters (the + icon) in the left sidebar

• An icon to upload new chapters in the form of docx files (the cloud upload icon) in the left sidebar

• The toolbar (to format your content)

• A button on the top right of the page to open the Add Members modal (described in detail in the Add Members chapter of this guide)

• A button on the top right of the page to open the Preview & Export page (described in detail in the Preview & Export chapter of this guide)

• Your user initials on the top right of the page, allowing you to sign out

Start writing or upload chapters

To create a blank chapter to start writing into, click the + button in the chapter list on the left of the page, then select the Untitled chapter to enter the chapter.

Click in the white space in the centre of your screen to place your cursor in the chapter. You can click Title (H1) and give your chapter a title.

To upload a new chapter from a docx file, click the cloud upload icon from the left sidebar, and choose a file from your file browser.

Once the chapter name appears in the left sidebar, you can click on it to enter the chapter and begin writing or editing into the uploaded document. Your heading formatting and images from the uploaded document will be preserved.

Your changes within documents are saved automatically.

Format and insert content using the toolbar

In the toolbar the following tools are available:

• An undo button (left arrow): Used to undo a change

• A redo button (right arrow): Used to redo a change that was undone

• A dropdown with heading levels to choose from: To change the heading level of a piece of text, select the text and choose the relevant heading level from the heading level dropdown.

• A title button: To give your content a title, place your cursor at the top of the document, write text and select Title from the toolbar.

• An ordered list button: To insert an ordered (numbered) list, click the ordered list icon.

• An unordered list button: To insert an ordered (bulleted) list, click the unordered list icon.

• A remove indent button: To remove an indent on text or list items (for example to remove list formatting on a piece of text), click the remove indent button

• An upload image button: To upload an image, place your cursor in the position you want the image to appear, and click the upload image icon. Supported image files include JPEG, PNG, SVG, and TIFF. TIFF files are converted by Ketida to different formats for performance reasons, and in Epub and PDF exports the size optimised versions of an image are used. Once inserted, you can add a caption and alt text to the relevant input areas that appear below the image. To delete the image, double click on it and hit backspace.

• A bold button: To apply bold to text, select the text and then click the bold icon.

• An italic button: To apply italics to text, select the text and then click the italics icon.

• A link button: To embed a link to text, select the text and then click the link icon, enter your link in the input field and click Apply.

• An underline button: To apply underline to text, select the text and then click the underline icon.

• A special characters menu: To use a special character, place your cursor in the position you want to insert a special character, then click the special characters icon. Once you have found the icon you want to appear by browsing or using the search function in the special characters menu, the selected character will be inserted.

• A find and replace button: To find, click the find icon and enter the text you want to search for. Positive matches are shown in green in the text. You can cycle through results using the next and previous arrows. You can toggle case-sensitivity using the Tt icon. To find and replace, click the three horizontal dots next to the find bar, enter the text you want to find and the replacement text, navigate to the result you want to replace using the previous and next arrows, or choose to replace all. Select the Case sensitive checkbox if your finding should only match the case of the text input into the Find text input area. Replacement text will always use the exact case input into the Replace text input area.

• A full screen button: to enter full screen mode, click this icon. To exit full screen mode, click it again.

Collaborate on books

While collaborating on books, only one person can edit a chapter at a time. When someone is working on a chapter their initials will display next to the chapter name, indicating that they have locked that chapter. Others will be able to read the chapter, but won’t be able to make changes at the same time.

More information about collaborating on books is available in the chapter on Book Members in this guide.