Sigil adding blank page after cover image - Page 2

Jellby · 01-07-2013, 03:22 AM

What about the   after the image?

If the image occupies the whole screen, the   would require a new (blank) page.

Ripplinger · 01-07-2013, 03:28 AM

No, I also removed that   and the result was the same... a blank page after the cover page. It's mentioned in a few more posts down that it was also removed to try, but I should take it out of the sample in the previous post to avoid the confusion.

Edit: It's mentioned in the same post actually, but I added in the extra code without the   as well.

Dillinquent · 01-11-2013, 07:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grannyGrumpy

After being bugged by off-center images, I finally figured it out to add text-indent:0 to stylings for images. I wish it would be that way by default when you use "center", but oh well, live and learn.

It's to do with the the way styles "cascade" - if <p> is set to have an indent then all paragraphs will be indented regardless of their class and you will have to explicitly remove the indent in your style definition if you don't want the indent.

ebookn00b · 05-09-2013, 10:24 AM

I have compiled a ePub in Sigil. I have added the Cover Semantic to the cover.html file as well as the actually image used for the cover. The cover of the ePub shows up in the thumbnail view on the iBooks shelf, however when I open the ePub in iBooks normally the first page that is shown is the cover however with this ePub it displays a blank page followed by the TOC and next the Title page. I see nothing that stands out in the code that would cause this.
The code for the cover is as follows. As you can see I bumped the width and height down to 75% thinking that the 100% setting was causing the issue.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <title>Cover</title>
</head>

<body>
  <div style="text-align: center; padding: 0pt; margin: 0pt;">
    <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="75%" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 612 792" width="75%" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
      <image width="612" height="792" xlink:href="../Images/Pages from Journal_10-12_NGS_Final.jpg"></image>
    </svg>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

exaltedwombat · 05-09-2013, 12:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ebookn00b

I just rarely view ePubs in ADE because of the way it sometimes displays things different than the iPad does.

It's really "the iPad sometimes displays things different to the standard" :-)

If these ebooks are only for your personal use, and will always be viewed on an iPad, there could be a lot to be said for using pdf.

GMcG · 05-10-2013, 02:38 AM

What happens, if you leave out any styles and sizes and use this simple line only:
<body>
<p><img alt="cover" height="95%" src="../Images/cover.jpg" /></p>
</body>
And then you reduce the percentage until it fits?

George

Edit: In Calibre it is said, that some devices like iPhone and JetBook Lite don't support SVG. They show a blank page instead. So what about iPad?

George

01-07-2013, 03:28 AM	#17
Ripplinger 350 Hoarder Posts: 1,533 Karma: 1931571 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Midwest USA Device: Sony PRS-350: 4 Silver, 2 Blue!; Kobo Glo	No, I also removed that   and the result was the same... a blank page after the cover page. It's mentioned in a few more posts down that it was also removed to try, but I should take it out of the sample in the previous post to avoid the confusion. Edit: It's mentioned in the same post actually, but I added in the extra code without the   as well. Last edited by Ripplinger; 01-07-2013 at 04:08 AM.

05-09-2013, 10:24 AM	#19
ebookn00b Member Posts: 19 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2012 Device: Kindle Fire, iPad 2	blank page issue again I have compiled a ePub in Sigil. I have added the Cover Semantic to the cover.html file as well as the actually image used for the cover. The cover of the ePub shows up in the thumbnail view on the iBooks shelf, however when I open the ePub in iBooks normally the first page that is shown is the cover however with this ePub it displays a blank page followed by the TOC and next the Title page. I see nothing that stands out in the code that would cause this. The code for the cover is as follows. As you can see I bumped the width and height down to 75% thinking that the 100% setting was causing the issue. Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Cover</title> </head> <body> <div style="text-align: center; padding: 0pt; margin: 0pt;"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="75%" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 612 792" width="75%" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <image width="612" height="792" xlink:href="../Images/Pages from Journal_10-12_NGS_Final.jpg"></image> </svg> </div> </body> </html>

05-10-2013, 02:38 AM	#21
GMcG Writer Posts: 68 Karma: 522222 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Munich, Germany Device: none	What happens, if you leave out any styles and sizes and use this simple line only: <body> <p><img alt="cover" height="95%" src="../Images/cover.jpg" /></p> </body> And then you reduce the percentage until it fits? George Edit: In Calibre it is said, that some devices like iPhone and JetBook Lite don't support SVG. They show a blank page instead. So what about iPad? George Last edited by GMcG; 05-10-2013 at 09:50 AM.

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Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 5,140 Karma: 2474345 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon	What about the   after the image? If the image occupies the whole screen, the   would require a new (blank) page.


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