I wanted to follow up on my own post from earlier with my "success story", because rather surprisingly I inadvertently discovered another rather quirky little bug -- and it's solution! -- that I'm very, very sure will surely help others resolve this whole full-page image problem (and getting a blank page afterwards).
Here's what I wrote was the "solution" that I discovered, that ended up working for me (and I'll follow up after with this quirky bug that I later discovered)...
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Originally Posted by Psymon
I FOUND THE SOLUTION!!!  To the issue re full page images adding an extra blank page when viewed in portrait mode...
For whatever reason, what was causing the problem was that even though I had each/every full-page image done up as a separate HTML file, in those I had been linking to my style sheet as well -- by simply deleting that, it got rid of the problem! I don't know what it is that I have in my style sheet that causes that extra blank page (only in portrait mode, in iBooks), but that's what it was. In fact, I've now set my image sizes to 100% (not 99% or 95%) and they're coming out fine, both landscape and portrait. |
Like I said, that worked just fine! But then I continued to work on my book, adding in new stuff, tweaking everything as I went along, and then all of a sudden I was getting that same stupid blank page again after every full-page image! Sheesh!
For the life of me I was utterly stumped, because I
knew that I had somehow fixed it before. Thankfully I've been saving different versions as I work on this, and so I went back to that earlier file that worked, and discovered the problem -- and it's a very odd problem!
In the file that had worked (with no blank pages after full-page images), I had had this in my style sheet...
@page {
margin: 0.000000pt; padding: 0.000000pt;
}
...which I had previously copied from someone else's code. Well, sometime after that, it occurred to me that "0.000000" is the same thing as "0" (duh!), so I then simplified that style to just this...
@page {
margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;
}
I mean, seriously, that's the same thing, right? Zero is zero!
Well, apparently it's not! Having my style set this second, latter way inadvertently gave me a blank page after every full-page image, but putting it back to "0.000000" got rid of them! And not only that, but I have no problem at all (in iBooks, at least) setting my images at 100%, to boot (as I'd already discovered earlier)!
Just thought I'd share that, because having searched all over these forums (and elsewhere on the 'net) I haven't seen any mention of this bug anywhere -- but I'm tellin' ya, it works! I don't know about other platforms or apps, but it most definitely fixes the issue in iBooks (on the iPad)!