designing epubs for ipad? (my thoughts) - Page 2

Kolenka · 02-17-2010, 07:52 PM

CSS3 is still a bit of a working draft. Changes don't mean progress per se in this. For all we know, no changes were made because nobody asked for any in the paged media section. Not that W3C is ignoring it.

joblack · 02-17-2010, 08:08 PM

The epub format is made to fit on all kinds of formats and to do scaling in different angels.

So it should work for the ipad as well (I suppose apple won't support epub anyway but that's another story).

Kolenka · 02-17-2010, 08:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joblack

So it should work for the ipad as well (I suppose apple won't support epub anyway but that's another story).

Apple already said their app uses epub.

charleski · 02-17-2010, 08:21 PM

The fact is that if you want any layout control (beyond forced single column) for books viewed in landscape mode the oeb spec doesn't offer any help right now. You can use the Adobe page-template extension, which might be useful to test layouts in ADE, but be prepared to have to alter it to fit in with whatever extension Apple might introduce. If Apple is planning on getting magazines and newspapers to distribute through them they'll have to offer some sort of layout control.

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02-17-2010, 07:52 PM	#16
Kolenka <Insert Wit Here> Posts: 1,017 Karma: 1275899 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Puget Sound Device: Kindle Oasis, Kobo Forma	CSS3 is still a bit of a working draft. Changes don't mean progress per se in this. For all we know, no changes were made because nobody asked for any in the paged media section. Not that W3C is ignoring it.

02-17-2010, 08:08 PM	#17
joblack Wizard Posts: 1,746 Karma: 4382688 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Somewhere on earth Device: Onyx Boox Tab X	The epub format is made to fit on all kinds of formats and to do scaling in different angels. So it should work for the ipad as well (I suppose apple won't support epub anyway but that's another story).

02-17-2010, 08:21 PM	#19
charleski Wizard Posts: 1,196 Karma: 1281258 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-505	The fact is that if you want any layout control (beyond forced single column) for books viewed in landscape mode the oeb spec doesn't offer any help right now. You can use the Adobe page-template extension, which might be useful to test layouts in ADE, but be prepared to have to alter it to fit in with whatever extension Apple might introduce. If Apple is planning on getting magazines and newspapers to distribute through them they'll have to offer some sort of layout control.

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