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Forum: Kobo Developer's Corner 04-21-2013, 11:13 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 2,392
Posted By rtmyers
Touch event handling on new Kobo Reader for iOS Japanese

I am testing a scripted book on the new Kobo Reader for iOS, Japanese version. I find that touch events, even when I explicitly try to stop propagation with stopPropagation or preventDefault (which...
Forum: Conversion 01-22-2013, 02:09 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,365
Posted By rtmyers
It appears that this problem was caused by an...

It appears that this problem was caused by an invalid ID in the original file, which was evidently replaced by an auto-generated ID with the initial digit which caused the problem. Fixing the ID in...
Forum: Conversion 01-21-2013, 10:53 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,365
Posted By rtmyers
Calibre conversion creates invalid ID

I'm using ebook-convert on the command line to convert EPUB3 to EPUB2 (don't ask). The generated content.opf contains the following line:

<item href="OEBPS/text/cover.jpg"...
Forum: ePub 12-14-2012, 07:37 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 1,659
Posted By rtmyers
What does properties="svg" on an <item> element in the manifest mean?

Hello, does anyone happen to know what the properties="svg" attribute on an <item> element in the manifest of an OPF file actually does? Is is necessary in order for some readers to process the SVG?...
Forum: ePub 12-14-2012, 07:33 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,754
Posted By rtmyers
Which validator is complaining?

Which validator is complaining?
Forum: ePub 12-14-2012, 07:31 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,382
Posted By rtmyers
You might want to try assigning the svg elements...

You might want to try assigning the svg elements the CSS property "display: inline-block; " and see how that goes (instead of using floats). If you then wrap the two in a <div> with the "margin-left;...
Forum: Apple Devices 11-22-2012, 11:42 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,545
Posted By rtmyers
Thanks, but as far as I can tell, @page:left and...

Thanks, but as far as I can tell, @page:left and @page:right rules, even if supported, allow only the margins and other page-level aspects specified, not specific CSS rules. What I really want to do...
Forum: Apple Devices 11-22-2012, 04:43 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,545
Posted By rtmyers
Querying some iBooks status info

Does anyone know how to query iBooks (with a CSS media query or property or JS or whatever) as to:

1) Is the book being read in paged or scrolling mode?
2) In two-page landscape mode, is an...
Forum: Conversion 11-21-2012, 02:20 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,567
Posted By rtmyers
Running the "4GBPatch" thingie on calibre.exe, as...

Running the "4GBPatch" thingie on calibre.exe, as mentioned in another thread, also doesn't seem to help. Maybe I should try running this on Linux.
Forum: Conversion 11-21-2012, 01:38 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,567
Posted By rtmyers
Hmm...no joy with 0.9.6 either. It pops up to 67%...

Hmm...no joy with 0.9.6 either. It pops up to 67% right away, sits there for nearly an hour (!), then gives the same error. Could this be a Windows issue?
--
Bob
Forum: Conversion 11-21-2012, 12:28 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,567
Posted By rtmyers
Thank you very much. I was running 0.9.3 on Win8....

Thank you very much. I was running 0.9.3 on Win8. I will try 0.9.6.
Forum: Conversion 11-20-2012, 10:37 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,567
Posted By rtmyers
Thanks for your quick look at this, but as far as...

Thanks for your quick look at this, but as far as I can tell Flightcrew can only check EPUB2. This is an EPUB3 file. It runs through epubcheck clean as a whistle.
Forum: Conversion 11-20-2012, 10:25 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,567
Posted By rtmyers
Qt has caught an error thrown from an event handler

Converting the attached file yields the error "Qt has caught an exception thrown from an event handler.


calibre, version 0.9.3 (win32, isfrozen: True)
Conversion Error: Failed: Convert book 1...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 11-05-2012, 02:15 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 1,027
Posted By rtmyers
MOBI displays on Fire and Touch but not iPad?

I have a MOBI created by KindleGen, with no noteworthy warnings or errors. In the previewer, it displays fine in Fire and Touch modes, but not in Kindle, Kindle DX, Kindle for iPhone or Kindle for...
Forum: Kobo Reader 10-16-2012, 11:27 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,864
Posted By rtmyers
No, the Kobo Touch does support scripting. It...

No, the Kobo Touch does support scripting. It just doesn't, as far as I can tell, support scripts in external files.



To be precise, scripted ebooks are compatible with whatever devices offer...
Forum: Kobo Reader 10-16-2012, 03:35 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,864
Posted By rtmyers
Now I am trying to handle touch events from...

Now I am trying to handle touch events from Javascript within books to be read on the Kobo Touch. I put a simple handler on the body element:

<body ontouchstart="alert('touched')">

but this...
Forum: Kobo Reader 10-16-2012, 01:53 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,864
Posted By rtmyers
Thanks, I did take a look at the Developer's...

Thanks, I did take a look at the Developer's forum, but it seemed to more about hacking and programming the device, whereas I am trying to build smart books to read on it...
Forum: Kobo Reader 10-16-2012, 10:49 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,864
Posted By rtmyers
No external JS?

I'm developing books with embedded JS and trying to get them to work on the Kobo Touch. I'll be darned if it doesn't completely ignore external JavaScript (<script src="...">), while the same JS...
Forum: ePub 08-23-2012, 11:45 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 3,204
Posted By rtmyers
What version of Webkit does iBooks use?

Does anyone know what version of Webkit iBooks uses? Or what version of Chrome that corresponds to, roughly, given that Apple probably adds/subtracts features to/from Webkit for iBooks?

I am...
Forum: ePub 08-23-2012, 07:15 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,898
Posted By rtmyers
FL doesn't quite work for this since I do want...

FL doesn't quite work for this since I do want the text to reflow.
Forum: ePub 08-22-2012, 11:16 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,898
Posted By rtmyers
Controlling left and right pages in 2-page iBooks view

I have an EPUB3 book targeting iBooks, and when viewing in two-page (landscape) mode, would like to keep one page on the left while multiple pages appears on the right. For instance, imagine a...
Forum: ePub 08-17-2012, 10:31 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 2,284
Posted By rtmyers
Presence of com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml breaks Readium?

I am building an ePub3 book, and without knowing exactly what I was doing decided to try adding a com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml file to META-INF. In Readium, however, this caused this book to...
Forum: Sigil 08-16-2012, 02:06 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,416
Posted By rtmyers
Creating additional folders

I'm porting an existing HTML5/CSS/JS application to ePub. The assets (stylesheets, scripts, images) are arranged in a particular folder structure and the code (url() specifications in the...
Forum: Sigil 08-16-2012, 11:15 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 3,578
Posted By rtmyers
Where to download beta of Sigil 6?

Does there happen to be a binary (Windows preferred) of the Sigil 6 beta?
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