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Originally Posted by flipick
The main reader to support this is iBooks, we have created and released books using the IDPF ePub3 fixed format onto the iTunes store, so we can say first hand that iBooks does support the standard.
We are trying to make Flipick a type of iBooks Author for InDesign, but with ePub3 fixed Layout instead of Apples proprietary format.
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For creating a standards based fixed format epub authoring tool you have 2 problems:
- There is no standard (yet).
- There are no readers that support the not yet there standard.
There is currently no Standard Fixed Format EPUB 3. The
FXL informational document, is currently available, and while informational documents give you an idea of what will actually be included in the spec, they aren't part of the spec themselves. For this particular one we are working on updating this with some tweaks and mostly additional metadata items prior to inclusion on the 3.0.1 spec.
There is another effort also in the works: AHL - Advanced Hybrid Layout, that also pertains to Fixed Layout - allowing for guided sub region navigation (ie panel by panel navigation in a comic), mapping between a fixed rendition and a flowable rendition (like how Nook does it's ArticleView), and quite a few others.
For readers that support a fixed format epub like content (Nook, Apple, Amazon) - they all only support their own (and different) formats. So there is no reader for you to be able to test content that your tool created yet. The closest you are going to get is Readium, which I see you are already looking at (which without a catalog to deal with, will probably the quickest to react).