09-20-2010, 07:00 PM | #1 |
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EPUB for iBooks bckgrnd img problem
As I posted in this thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...58#post1120158 My colleague and I are trying to make a specific kids' book for iBooks 1.1. It seems that in the earlier iBooks app, absolute positioning was not disabled, so you could float text atop a background image. Now it appears to be disabled, so one cannot. We've tried pretty much everything, and everything we've tried has worked in epubs everywhere else--EXCEPT iBooks. If anyone here has crafted an iBooks background-image workaround (floating text atop an image, NOT a color declaration, see my post in the Epub forum), that would be great. TIA. Hitch |
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I was interested in something like this too, but couldn't even get as far as getting a background image using Sigil. Do you know how to specify this in Sigil?
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Just set it with CSS as usual--there's nothing really tricky about it.
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ok. you wanted a workaround. Not very flexible, but it works for me.
<body> <div> <img alt="" src="../Images/nysmap.jpg" /> <p class="tweak">tweak</p> </div> <p>body body body body body body body body body body body</p> with .tweak {margin-top: -100%;} in the css. The map outline image scales to the screen width on my iPod Touch with iOS 4.1 in iBooks and the "body body ..." text overlays on top.... |
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@whbenson: Does it work on the iPad? Because that's where I've had all the problems.
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@Hitch: Yes, it works on the iPad too. [Note, of course, that this doesn't use the CSS background-image property, which is what I was originally and unsuccessfully trying to use at first.]
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Hi, Bill:
Here's the other post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...85#post1178385 . We've been able to get text over a bckgrnd img to work for, say, one page at a time, but flowing text over that image repetively with yet more images embedded in the text? OISH. Hitch |
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