Thread: Change size of popup footnote window for iBooks?
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Old 06-13-2019, 09:22 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by achiral View Post
I'm working on a very important project in which the customer is asking for epub3 popup footnote functionality to be on the "cutting edge" (cringe) when compared to competitors' books. I've got everything setup for the popups, but I've run into an issue with very long footnotes.

In iBooks, when I tap on one of the very long footnotes, the popup window spans the height of the iBooks window. However, the popup window, even when the Books app window is maximized, isn't big enough to contain all of the footnote text. And there's no scroll bar to view the entire footnote in the popup window. I'm seeing this behavior on the Books app on a Macbook Pro.

Does anyone know if there's any trick to enabling a scroll option or changing the size of the popup window? I'm assuming not, because I don't see any documentation on it at all. But I wanted to check here before breaking the news to my client.
Nope, this is one of them thar pesky "Hey, client, get your head out of your ass" moments. "Cutting edge." I don't blame you for cringing. :-) (I feel your pain, brother/sister!)

Just tell him that if he wants cutting edge popups, he needs to build an app and the average cost for an eBook App is about $1800.00-$2200.00 USD. I find that that usually stops the crackpot ideas dead in their tracks.

Honestly, I wonder where they come UP with this s**t? It's like the client I have that just cannot get it through his (*&^%$#@ head that I cannot magically make images auto-resize, on the FLY, based upon what size font a person chooses, so that the text NEVER stops, on the screen, before an image (that's too large to be displayed in the remaining screen space available). I have explained it, even resorted to video, 5x now. It's getting so that if I see his name on an email or on my incoming phone display, quite literally my stomach clenches and I start grinding my teeth. (I swear, if I saw him in person I might lose it and punch him in the head, I am not kidding.)

So, just tell him, "sorry, can't be done. Talk to Apple/IDPF." Sheesh.

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