Quote:
Originally Posted by hapax legomenon
I have nothing to add to this discussion, but the subject interests me.
1)I'm curious about what the need is here. You said background image, are you talking about a watermark-type background image or some permanent graphic which appears in the same part of the page.
2)are you really testing both the landscape and portrait view? (You mention left-handed and right-handed page) If so, I am amazed.
3)do any of these ipad optimizations render on other platforms without messing things up? Maybe in 6-12 months ipad will have a bigger piece of the pie than today, but I have a hard time imagining that there won't be competing devices or readers for which these optimizations won't really matter.
|
Hi:
Very quickly (not to be rude, but a publisher had an "emergency" this weekend and I'm pushing out a buncha books with footnotes, references, you-name-it):
1. A background image full of swirly-magic-things that covers the whole page, not a watermark;
2. You betcha. I test it both ways in every iteration. (Why are you amazed?--seriously?)
3. Nope, enhancements like video only work in iBooks right now. But, you know what the digital world is like, monkey-see, monkey-do.
@jharker: I know we can hack SVG fonts; I've spent some time yammering with Liz Castro about it, but, as you said, wouldn't want to typeset a whole book with it. If your question about the book being live was directed to me, the answer is: not yet, it's being uploaded via an Aggregator, so--two weeks-ish?
Best,
Hitch