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Originally Posted by KevinH
Sorry, I don't think iBooks support SVG images yet (even though it is part of the official epub spec). Have you tried in another epub reader on your ipad such as the Bluefire.app or Stanza or .. Perhaps it will work better?
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Hi,
I created a quick svg image in an epub and loaded it into my iPad. Normally, in iBooks you simply double-click on an image and then iBooks loads it into its own screen and you can pinch to zoom and move around. When I do this with "SVG" images in an iPad, I get a blank screen and then iBooks terminates (crashes).
I tried with the Kobo reader software on iPad and none of the SVG images even showed up on the screen (quite sad). I tried with the Bluefire reader app and the svg images appeared but I could not figure out how to zoom in on any image, let alone a SVG image.
So you are right, this solution will not work on an iPad using iBooks, Bluefire, Kobos, etc It does work well on my Sony though.
Sorry for getting your hopes up. It may work in Safari. I know in Desktop Safari you can open standalone SVG images and zoom around on them (and with FireFox 4) but I am not sure if that would work on an iPad, though. You would probably be better off just making your entire ebook a pdf one and not an epub if you want it to work with scalable images on an iPad.