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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What software allows making fixed layout ePub 3 without having to put in all that really awful code? Thanks.
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Jon:
That's a trick question, really because the answer is, you can't have both. If you make a fixed layout that would work, on, say, ePUB3/Apple devices, you're stuck with the "junk code" because it is the junk code, specifically placing and floating the px dimension offsets, that makes it fixed-layout for text floating "over" the background.
Without it, it could not
be fixed-layout and, thus, would not exist. No "junk" code, as you call it, and no fixed layout.
The only two
other options are:
- You make a reflowable eBook/ePUB, in its entirety, made of jpgs of every single page, one image after another, with page breaks between and that's that, or,
- like KPF/KindleCreate, you take a PDF, slap a wrapper around it so that the Kindle devices will 'accept' it (like a whatits bird slipping in its baby offspring into another bird's nest to be raised, right?) and that's "fixed-layout" but as Quoth mentioned, it's really just a pdf.
How else, Jon, would you make a fixed-layout ePUB, with real text, not images of text that were fixed????
Hitch