Hi all,
Hope this is the right forum. I used Sigil to create an ebook. I've gotten everything looking and acting like I want EXCEPT the cover image. I opted to put one in my kindle version, even though I know they always open on chpt 1. Anyway, the problem is this: In Sigil, everything looks normal. When I convert to mobi using the Kindle previewer, I get two blank pages when I move from htm section #2 toward the cover image. I get one blank page when I move back toward section #2. This holds true for all kindle devices in the previewer. When I use ADE, there are no blank pages between the cover and the next page, but I get a blank page for Page #1 and a blank page immediately after my TOC. (I've just started looking at this with ADE today, but my focus is on the Kindle application) I've scoured the internet and see all kinds of confusing reasons for this, none of which I can find here. The only thing that comes close is the possibility that the cover image is too large (bleeding over) and may be creating page breaks? Here are a few sections of the code I've used.
Top (1st) section in Book Browser:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Cold Currents</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Cover (2nd) html file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Cover</title>
</head>
<body>
<div style="text-align: center; padding: 0pt; margin: 0pt;">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="100%" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 1716 2626" width="100%" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<image height="2626" width="1716" xlink:href="../Images/Cold_Currents_front_cover.jpg"/>
</svg>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Third file down in Book Browser (section0002.htm):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Cold Currents</title>
<link href="../Styles/Style0001.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/><link href="../Styles/Style0003.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/></head>
<body>
<div>
<h4>ALSO BY BYRON SUGGS</h4>
<p> </p>
<p><b><i>Rockapocalypse</i></b></p>
<p> </p>
<p><b><i>Anything But</i></b></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Parts of Content.opf pertaining to cover:
dc:date>
<dc
ublisher>Fall Line Publishing</dc
ublisher>
<dc:rights>All Rights Reserved</dc:rights>
<meta content="Cold_Currents_front_cover.jpg" name="cover" />
<meta content="0.7.4" name="Sigil version" />
</metadata>
<manifest>
<item href="toc.ncx" id="ncx" media-type="application/x-dtbncx+xml" />
<item href="Images/image001.jpg" id="image001.jpg" media-type="image/jpeg" />
<item href="Images/image002.jpg" id="image002.jpg" media-type="image/jpeg" />
<item href="Text/Section0036.htm" id="Section0036.htm" media-type="application/xhtml+xml" />
<item href="Images/Cold_Currents_front_cover.jpg" id="Cold_Currents_front_cover.jpg" media-type="image/jpeg" />
<item href="Text/cover.xhtml" id="cover.xhtml"
*********************************************
idref="Cold_Currents_Suggs_KindleFormat_2015A.htm" />
<itemref idref="cover.xhtml" />
<itemref idref="Section0002.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0003.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0004.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0005.htm" />
<itemref idref="TOC.xhtml" />
<itemref idref="Section0006.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0007.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0008.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0009.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0010.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0011.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0012.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0013.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0014.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0015.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0016.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0017.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0018.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0019.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0020.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0021.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0022.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0023.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0024.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0025.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0026.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0027.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0028.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0029.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0030.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0031.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0033.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0034.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0035.htm" />
<itemref idref="Section0036.htm" />
</spine>
<guide>
<reference href="Text/cover.xhtml" title="Cover" type="cover" />
<reference href="Text/TOC.xhtml" title="Table Of Contents" type="toc" />
</guide>
</package>
What can be causing these blank pages? Any suggestion would be appreciated. If I had hair it would be in tuffs around my feet.
