4/30/2024 0 Comments Smart text reflow not workingTo you, the design of an epub must be similar to what can be achieved with a typewriter. What is a sin is advising someone who is looking for help, like the OP, from ignorance, pretending to be an expert and specialist. That is not a sin, since no one is born knowing. Because of that, your knowledge of CSS and HTML is very limited, you barely know the basics. You build your epubs from Word and turn it into an ebook with Calibre. To use %, you need to previously set the height of the container and, how do you set such container height? What units do you use to set the container height? You can't use again "%" (I doubt those questions have ever crossed your mind of course, I know how to deal with such situations).īe sincere. Because is exactly the same to use 95%, 950% or 25% or whatever value you want to use because PERCENTAGE UNITS IN HEIGHT DOESN'T WORK! For "height" you need to use "vh", "vmax", "px", "em", etc., etc., but not %. Was not a stupid statement, by the contrary, was a smart one. If instead of 95% I will employ 950%, the image will be ten times bigger? Here you have a list of ereaders that will display properly a full page image:ĪDE 4.x (Windows), Thorium (Windows and Linux), Koodo Reader (Windows and Linux), IceCream Ebook Reader (Windows), Foliate (Linux), Readium, Bibi Reader and JSReader (all Sigil plugins on both Windows and on Linux), Calibre Viewer (Windows and Linux), EPUBReader (extension for Chrome and Firefox), ePUB Reader (another extension for Chrome and Firefox), PocketBook (Android), Gitden Reader (Android), Reasily (Android), Aldiko Next (Android), Lithium (Android), OverDrive (Android), Bluefire Reader (Android and IOs), BookFusion (Android). And I am not going to state something gratuitously, I will do it by citing ereaders with full support for the epub3 protocol. If we are speaking about epub3, then the layout will be supported for any ereader with proper support for epub3. And what is freely stated can be freely denied. That statement is gratuitous, with nothing to back it up. Though you can have float, it fails on many platforms. Or Web site design.Ī "Full page" image and text flowing round it is a nonsense in an ebook. Ebooks use CSS and HTML, but are not web pages or web sites.įorget Desktop Publishing, which is what InDesign is derived from. Though you can have float, it fails on many platforms, so we never have any "float" in any CSS. Things that are at the start of a new file need a padding-top as many platforms ignore margin-top for the first item in a file.Ī "Full page" image and text flowing round it is a nonsense in an ebook. You don't know what size a page is, but you can make an image approximately fit the screen with cssĪnd the enclosing p tags are centred with 0 left & right but desired top and bottom margin. But the simple reliable and works everywhere solution is to have the image as a paragraph where you want it in the sequential paragraphs. See the thread Full-page image "floating" for responsive pagination. I believe that the question is actually about having a full page image with the the text flowing around it so that the previous page contains a full page of text. Like trying to do calligraphy with a sewing machine. Sigil allows hand building epub3, mathml etc. Everything is paragraph styles which become mapped 1:1 to CSS if you convert an docx to epub in calibre. The source doc for an epub has only one page style, small margins, no headers, footers or page numbers. We actually do the epub first, via LO Writer, proof epub and when it's finalised make a copy of the LO Writer doc and add page styles, headers, footers, page numbers, book style formatting etc and output as a PDF for paper. The user expects to vary margins, line-height (so don't set it ever) and font size, and even font-face. The ebook page is what ever size and resolution the users ereader or app has. Real ebooks are a subset of web pages, but paginated, as a web page would be on a printer preview. It's not "typesetting" as in PDF for paper. While text can flow around an image, it's best that it doesn't for widest compatibility.Īll you need is properly styled Word or LO Writer and Sigil or Calibre. There is no "facing page" concept on real ebooks. At best you can use it for fixed layout ebooks (which are a horrible imitation of PDF). Indesign is for paper (PDF) and kludged for ebooks.
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