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Apple’s free interactive book creation app iBooks Author was just released, allowing foranyone to make multi-touch iBooks for iPad. Unfortunately it’s officially for Mac OS X10.7 only, and if you try to install it on Snow Leopard, you’ll get an error message. Witha little work we can get around that error message and install and run iBooks Author inMac OS X 10.6.8.
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Install iBooks Author on Mac OS X10.6.8 Snow Leopard
Apple’s free interactive book creation app iBooks Author was just released, allowing foranyone to make multi-touch iBooks for iPad. Unfortunately it’s officially for Mac OS X10.7 only, and if you try to install it on Snow Leopard, you’ll get an error message. Witha little work we can get around that error message and install and run iBooks Author inMac OS X 10.6.8.
This is not supported by Apple, although the app appears to work fine and if you justwant to explore the application it’s more than enough. If you plan on publishing withiBooks Author, you should use OS X Lion though.
From the Mac OS X desktop, hit Command+Shift+G and enter /System/Library/CoreServices/Locate SystemVersion.plist and make a backup copy of it to the desktopLaunch the Terminal and type the following:
sudo nano /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
Locate the keys ProductUserVisibleVersion and ProductVersion and change theirstrings from “10.6.8″ to “10.7.2″Hit Control+O to save the fileNow launch the Mac App Store and find and download iBooks AuthorAfter iBooks Author is finished downloading – do not launch it yet, instead open/Applications/ and find the app, then right-click on it and choose “Show PackageContents”
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Now open the folder “Contents” and locate and open “Info.plist”, you can use nano oryour favorite text editorIn Info.plist, look for “LSMinimumSystemVersion” and change the accompanyingstring from “10.7.2″ to “10.6.8″ and safe the fileAlmost done! Now go back to the SystemVersion.plist file and open it again:
sudo nano /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
Locate keys ProductUserVisibleVersion and ProductVersion again, but change theirstrings from to “10.7.2″ back to “10.6.8″Save SystemVersion.plistLaunch iBooks Author
The iBooks Author icon will probably keep it’s strike through it, but the app opens fineand everything seems to work. You may also need to upgrade to iTunes 10.5.3 if youwant to sync the iBooks to an iPad.
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[技巧] 在 Mac OS X 10.6.8 上运行 iBooks Author | 果迷网 says:January 21, 2012 at 7:05 am
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iBooks Author: come eseguirlo anche su Snow Leopard! | iSpazio MAC says:February 10, 2012 at 1:15 am
[...] Quasi finito! Rieseguiamo i passaggi 4, 5 e 6, ma stavolta rimettendo le cose aposto (sostituiamo il “10.7.2″ in “10.6.8″). Fatto! Potrete utilizzare regolarmenteiBooks Author! Via | OSXDaily [...]
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