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Old 07-09-2019, 05:11 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Since calibre's ebook-viewer does not currently support fixed layout, I'd recommend looking at a different program to edit/view FLO epubs.
Yep, Calibre doesn't support Fixed Layout EPUBs.

You would most likely have to test on a physical device itself (iBooks on an iPad).

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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
Changing the text will not cause the rest of the words to reflow to make room for the edit, so if you want to change something you have to go back and edit the original source and regenerate the fixed-layout EPUB again.
Yep, if you wanted to work from InDesign, that's the way that would be recommended.

Fixing the source document and reexporting from there.

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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
A fixed-layout EPUB is generally not editable. Typically each word is placed individually at a particular position on the page by the HTML coding.


InDesign's Fixed Layout EPUBs wraps each, and, every, single, word, in a span and specifies the absolute pixel position.

Back in 2015, I posted a code example out of InDesign and a few things on Fixed Layout:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...50#post3063050

Absolutely horrifying code that thing outputs.

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