Presence of com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml breaks Readium?

rtmyers · 08-17-2012, 10:31 PM

I am building an ePub3 book, and without knowing exactly what I was doing decided to try adding a com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml file to META-INF. In Readium, however, this caused this book to not display at all. Is that expected behavior, a bug in Readium, or something else?

Toxaris · 08-18-2012, 04:21 AM

Actually I would never call it a bug in Readium. It is a file that is not for ePUB3, but specifically for iBooks.
Then again, it should not choke on it. Are you sure the file is fine otherwise?

Doitsu · 08-18-2012, 06:01 AM

Liz Castro created a Manga sample epub3 with an com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml file in the META-INF folder that opens fine with Readium.
Most likely there's something wrong with your com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml file. Did you make sure that it's syntactically valid and did you save it as an UTF-8 file without a byte order mark (BOM) and no line breaks after the last line?

08-17-2012, 10:31 PM	#1
rtmyers Member Posts: 24 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2012 Device: iPad	Presence of com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml breaks Readium? I am building an ePub3 book, and without knowing exactly what I was doing decided to try adding a com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml file to META-INF. In Readium, however, this caused this book to not display at all. Is that expected behavior, a bug in Readium, or something else?

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08-18-2012, 04:21 AM	#2
Toxaris Wizard Posts: 4,520 Karma: 121692313 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Heemskerk, NL Device: PRS-T1, Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura	Actually I would never call it a bug in Readium. It is a file that is not for ePUB3, but specifically for iBooks. Then again, it should not choke on it. Are you sure the file is fine otherwise?

08-18-2012, 06:01 AM	#3
Doitsu Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,763 Karma: 24088559 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle PW2	Liz Castro created a Manga sample epub3 with an com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml file in the META-INF folder that opens fine with Readium. Most likely there's something wrong with your com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml file. Did you make sure that it's syntactically valid and did you save it as an UTF-8 file without a byte order mark (BOM) and no line breaks after the last line?

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