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• • June 30, 2011 at 7:48 pm #59971
    incblot

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    I'm starting to upload content to iBookstore. Getting our ePub files past Apple's standards is a little tricky. I thought others might be in the same boat, so a thread to discuss any problems could be useful.

  • June 30, 2011 at 7:59 pm #59972
    incblot

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    I'm currently reading the iBookstore Asset Guide 4.7 Rev.3.

    It seems my first problem was not including all the book elements in the <guide> block.

    I'm also surprised to learn that page breaks do exist! I hadn't had any luck with InDesign's keep options, so this is promising:

    To indicate that a page break should come before or after an element, set up a style in CSS using the
    page-break-before or page-break-after properties. Accepted values for these properties include:
    ? auto: Insert a page break before or after the element as necessary
    ? always: Insert a page break before or after the element

  • June 30, 2011 at 9:26 pm #59973
    incblot

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    However, I've downloaded the iBookstore EPUB Example 1.3, and not all the book elements are in the <guide> block. Go figure?

  • July 7, 2011 at 8:39 am #60006
    StirlingEditor

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    I've not attempted getting my book into iBooks yet, but I've been testing embedded video in the epub on iPad. It sorta worked. I think I've run into the InDesign CS5.5 webkit bug due to my non-breaking spaces in my ellipses. If you end up having any “shy” or %nbsp; errors, you should google that bug to fix it.

    Anyhoo, which version of CS are you running? If you are using CS5.5, page breaks are effortless. You don't need separate files in a book. You can have your book in one file and use TOC/paragraph styles to tell InDesign where to page break. CS5 requires “books,” I believe. I can't remember now…

    But either way, you don't need to use CSS to break your pages. Let InDesign do it for you.

  • December 30, 2011 at 6:27 pm #61317
    cjstephens

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    I'm working on my second ebook for a publisher. It's a re-flowable cook book and I wanted to control the page breaks I've used the page-break-after in my CSS and set it to trigger by a <hr> between each recipe in a section. I was able to validate and open the ebook in Ibooks but it looks more like a fixed layout, nothing beyond the first page view area is visible the flowing content is all cut off…any ideas? BTW I created this ebook totally in Dreamweaver.

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