blank pages after SVG images in Kobo

jobalcaen · 10-09-2012, 01:21 PM

Hello everyone,

My book cover displays perfectly in ibooks, ADE and firefox reader.

However, when I open the book in the Kobo app on the ipad and in FBreader, the cover appears correctly but a blank page is inserted after.

I followed the advice on this website to create my cover page http://denis.papathanasiou.org/?p=592 and tried googling this issue but I can't find anything of much use.

Should I stop using SVG, resize my images to 800x600 and use a simple <div> and <img ....> combo?

I also attached a sample of the book that is giving me issue.

Any input would be appreciated.

Thanks,

jobalcaen · 10-11-2012, 02:07 AM

I was finally able to resolve my own issue. The solution was to reduce the width and the height of the svg to 99% instead of 100%. I guess there is somekind of a hidden margin that does not get removed even though I set the margins for everything to 0 in the css. Here is an example of the code I used:

<?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></title>
<link href="../Styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
/*<![CDATA[*/

@page {padding: 0pt; margin:0pt}
body { text-align: center; padding:0pt; margin: 0pt; }
/*]]>*/
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="99%" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 524 612" width="99%" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<image height="612" width="524" xlink:href="../Images/image001.png"></image>
</svg>
</div>
</body>
</html>

I tested this successfully in ibooks, kobo reader app on the ipad, Sony PRS-505, firefox epubreader, FBreader and ADE.

FunkeXMix · 05-19-2013, 12:31 PM

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FunkeXMix · 05-19-2013, 01:19 PM

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10-11-2012, 02:07 AM	#2
jobalcaen Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Winnipeg, Canada Device: Sony PRS-505	fixed I was finally able to resolve my own issue. The solution was to reduce the width and the height of the svg to 99% instead of 100%. I guess there is somekind of a hidden margin that does not get removed even though I set the margins for everything to 0 in the css. Here is an example of the code I used: <?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></title> <link href="../Styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <style type="text/css"> /<![CDATA[/ @page {padding: 0pt; margin:0pt} body { text-align: center; padding:0pt; margin: 0pt; } /]]>/ </style> </head> <body> <div> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="99%" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 524 612" width="99%" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <image height="612" width="524" xlink:href="../Images/image001.png"></image> </svg> </div> </body> </html> I tested this successfully in ibooks, kobo reader app on the ipad, Sony PRS-505, firefox epubreader, FBreader and ADE.

05-19-2013, 12:31 PM	#3
FunkeXMix Enthusiast Posts: 48 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: Ipad	removed Last edited by FunkeXMix; 05-23-2013 at 10:32 AM. Reason: Wrong info

05-19-2013, 01:19 PM	#4
FunkeXMix Enthusiast Posts: 48 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: Ipad	removed Last edited by FunkeXMix; 05-23-2013 at 10:32 AM. Reason: wrong info

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