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Originally Posted by Psymon
Oh, I didn't realize that about Apple devices, that they don't comply with the epub standards -- I just assumed (mistakenly) that, if anything, they did moreso than other readers. My bad! One should never presume. 
As for Liz Castro's book, I managed to find (quite easily) a copy in PDF format. I browsed through it, but it would appear to be less-advanced than I think I need -- I don't really see anything in there that I don't already know. And forgive me for saying so, but I was quite put off by her horrendous sense of typographic design -- to make an analogy, she might be a good car mechanic and is able to get all the "inner workings" running smoothly, but on the outside her book is an Edsel. Seriously, that's one of the most awfully-designed publications I've ever seen (not only in the PDF, but amazon let's you "look inside" and what you see is basically exactly the same), which, quite frankly, leaves me questioning her as being some sort of "expert" in the field. :/
Please don't hate me for saying so -- I do appreciate the suggestion, and if I was more of a beginner than I am then I'm sure her book would have been quite helpful. So thank you, still, for the suggestion!
And I will most certainly take your other suggestion and check out some of Jellby's stuff -- just like with web design, the nice thing about epub design is that if you're stumped on how to do something, you can just find someone who can and then just look at their code and learn how.
Thanks!  |
I don't hate you; but if you're that advanced, your images shouldn't be breaking across "pages" in a Kobo. I'm not trying to be snarky, but it sounds to me like you tried a variety of tricks to suit a single device; they worked fine on an iPad in iBooks, but not anything else. One of the simultaneously both most fundamental and at the same time advanced things you can do with an eBook is to have it work properly across all devices. That's why I referred you to Castro's book. Maybe what you want to do--none of us can know, as we haven't seen it--can only work on iBooks. {shrug}. Knowing how to do something like make an image display full-page across devices shouldn't be as hard as you're saying it is.
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