Flipick. Watch the Online Video Course Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB. Getting rid of faux pages and binding in iBooks. Apple's iBooks has been accepting EPUB3 documents for some time, which means they can now benefit from EPUB3 features. One of those features is whether or not the binding should be displayed, which in iBooks takes the form of a faux spine: To make the faux spine disappear, you simply have to add this line to the <meta> section of your opf file (in an EPUB 3 fixed layout file): <meta property="ibooks:binding">false</meta> And as long as you have version 3.1 or later of iBooks, the faux binding (and the faux pages at the edges) disappear: Note, however, that if you designed your pages to fit perfectly in a landscape-oriented iOS device, the disappearance of the faux pages will make your book slightly more narrow, and you will have some empty gray space as shown above.
(Thanks to Jean-Michel Dentand for reminder to update to new version of iBooks!) Controlling spreads in EPUB3 Fixed Layout. EPUB 3's spread settings should allow you to decide when individual documents are placed next to each other on a 'synthetic' spread in a book. For example, you might want to show two consecutive pages in a spread if the device is held in landscape orientation but individually if it's held in a portrait orientation. According to the spec, that's possible. In real life, on real devices, it's not. Let's look at the different options, since they're not very self-explanatory. First, you can find a quick overview on this earlier article about EPUB 3 fixed layout.
EPUB 3 has three important fixed layout rendition properties, layout, spread, and orientation. <meta property="rendition:layout">pre-paginated</meta> And if you want a flowing book, you'll leave it out to use the default value of reflowable. The spread property determines when pages should be placed next to each other in a 'synthetic' spread. So, for example, here's what it looks like in iBooks if you choose none. International Digital Publishing Forum | The Trade and Standards Organization for the Digital Publishing Industry. EPUB 3 Fixed Layout Documents. Note This informational document has been superseded. Fixed-layout metadata is now defined in 4.4.2 Fixed Layout Properties of the EPUB Publications specification. Content dimension expressions are defined in 2.5 Fixed-Layout Documents of the EPUB Content Documents specification.
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