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• • June 23, 2016 at 6:40 am #86007
    HB Edit

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    Hello from France and sorry for my poor english ;-)

    I am using Indesign CC 2015.4 and i got some troubles with the size of the cover when exporting to ePub.

    I have chosen “select a picture” for the cover during the export, but once the ePub opened in Adobe Digital Edition, the cover fit the width but is not shown 100% vertically.

    The issue doesn’t appear if i insert the cover directly at the beginning of the Indesign file, but the problem is that if i click on “Rasterize the first page”, Indesign add another time the cover (called “1.jpg” instead of “example-cover.jpg”), so the cover is twice on the ePub, increasing of course the size of it.

    And if i don’t indicate any picture (option “without”), the cover is still well shown on ADE but is not declared on the “OEBS” files…

    Question : what can i do in order to make the cover fiting the page vertically and horizontally ?

    Am i the only one who have this issue ?

    Thanks a lot for any help.

  • June 23, 2016 at 7:59 am #86012
    HB Edit

    Member

    Hi again,

    So for the moment i have found a quick solution, it is to edit the cover file in the ePub, and make this change :

    Change

    style=”max-width: 100%”

    By

    style=”max-height: 100%”

    It works but i would be curious to know if i am the only one who meet this issue.

  • July 7, 2016 at 8:31 am #86346
    Kathleen Conner

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    I have this same problem, and will try your quick solution. Since I’m a new to EPUB creation in InDesign, can you tell me where I make this change.
    Thanks!

    • July 7, 2016 at 8:54 am #86347
      HB Edit

      Member

      Hello Kathleen,

      If you want to make changes on your ePub, you have several solutions (the second one is maybe the best for you) :

      1. Modify the extension name of the ePub file and write “zip” instead of “epub”. After that, just unzip the file.
      1.1 Then open the folder “text” and open “cover.xhtml” with an editing software like Notepad ++.
      1.2 Inside the part called “img src=”…/Images/nameofyourcover.jpg”, paste the following sentence : style=”max-height: 100%” instead of style=”max-width: 100%”.
      1.3 Save your document and modify the extension name “zip” by “epub”.
      1.4 Now the cover will appear perfectly

      2. You can also download “Sigil”, witch is a free software that allows you to modify easily all the files of the ePub (more easily than the first solution).
      Just follow the steps of the solution 1 (from 1.1 to 1.2) after openning the ePub file with Sigil. You won’t need to open the files with a text editor because this option is uncluded directly in Sigil.

      3. “Tweak epub” is the last solution. It gives you the possibility to open the ePub files without modify the extension name, but it offers less options than “Sigil”.

      Hope it will help you.

  • July 28, 2016 at 8:40 am #86966
    HB Edit

    Member

    Hi there,

    I still got troubles with some ereaders with the cover, so i inform you that the perfect sentence to write in the cover file is this one :

    style=”height:100%;max-width:100%”

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