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Hitch · 09-20-2010, 06:56 PM

Hi, gang:

We're making a kids' book for iBooks. We're yanking our hair out. It seems, according to something I read by, I think, Liz Castro, that Apple deliberately disabled absolute positioning in iBooks 1.1. The net result of this is that suddenly, a "page" or pages created by using text atop a background image is no longer doable.

We've tried everything--and everything we've tried works perfectly in EPUBReader, Sigil, Lucidor, you-name-it...but not iBooks. We can't get the text atop the image to save our lives. We've tried divs, blockquotes, nested divs, z-index....we are out of ideas. What we get is one page of background image, one page of text, one page of bckground img, one page of text...or, ONE background image, then the rest of the text, and so forth.

If anyone here has ANY workarounds, other than the obvious make it in photoshop as a jpeg solution, that would be great. We've made a lot of other kids' books with jpegs, and they're okay...but that really won't work for this particular book. TIA.

Thanks,

Hitch

P.S. - I'm going to x-post this, or a link to this, in the Apple Device forum, to try to cover my bases, just FYI.

09-20-2010, 06:56 PM	#1
Hitch Bookmaker & Cat Slave Posts: 11,503 Karma: 158448243 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Phoenix, AZ Device: K2, iPad, KFire, PPW, Voyage, NookColor. 2 Droid, Oasis, Boox Note2	EPUB for iBooks bckgrnd img problem Hi, gang: We're making a kids' book for iBooks. We're yanking our hair out. It seems, according to something I read by, I think, Liz Castro, that Apple deliberately disabled absolute positioning in iBooks 1.1. The net result of this is that suddenly, a "page" or pages created by using text atop a background image is no longer doable. We've tried everything--and everything we've tried works perfectly in EPUBReader, Sigil, Lucidor, you-name-it...but not iBooks. We can't get the text atop the image to save our lives. We've tried divs, blockquotes, nested divs, z-index....we are out of ideas. What we get is one page of background image, one page of text, one page of bckground img, one page of text...or, ONE background image, then the rest of the text, and so forth. If anyone here has ANY workarounds, other than the obvious make it in photoshop as a jpeg solution, that would be great. We've made a lot of other kids' books with jpegs, and they're okay...but that really won't work for this particular book. TIA. Thanks, Hitch P.S. - I'm going to x-post this, or a link to this, in the Apple Device forum, to try to cover my bases, just FYI.