Questions tagged [apple-books]
Books is an e-book reader made by Apple for iOS and macOS.
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How to access developer tools in iBooks on macOS Monterey (version 12)
How do I access developer tools in iBooks on macOS12 (Monterey)?
We have epubs with multiple-choice questions, and we use Javascript to make them interactive (i.e. click on an option, see if you're ...
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How to know what is wrong with an ePub file converted from FB2 and not able to be opened by iBooks?
I have an EPUB file converted from FB2 by my own programmatically. I need to convert exactly programmatically because I'm going to develop an iOS app which should take an FB2 file, convert it to EPUB ...
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Does ipad (ibooks) supports mixed layout epubs (reflowable with some fixed pages)
I want few pages in my reflowable epub (pages having complex tables which span to two pages in PDF) as fixed layout. As per IDPF standard, I have added rendition property for those pages in spine as ...
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How to trigger pagination recalculation when changing content via JS?
I wrote a little script in JavaScript that allows the user to switch the language of the text displayed. It simply works by hiding the language blocks except for the one corresponding to the language ...
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Change eBook font doesn't change font for ordered/unordered lists
I've created an ePUB with fonts exported so that when viewed on "Original" (eg in iBooks), you see the same font as the paperback edition of the book. But if you change the font in iBooks (...
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using the same javascript library several times in an ibook
I have a question similar to the one asked here, but I did not understand the answer given to that question. I would like to use mathjax and JSXGraphs in several widgets with iBooksAuthor, but I would ...
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How to add Google Play tab and iBookStore tab on facebook?
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I'm an self-publishing author and i was wondering if i can by any means add a clear and visible link to my GooglePlay/iBookStore author profile on facebook. I've already tried adding an ...
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InDesign EPUB omitting page 1 in iBook thumbnails
I create an InDesign document which I am exporting as a Fixed layout EPUB. When viewing in iBooks, page 1 (first page of the book itself, I'm not talking about the separate cover file) does not show ...
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Setting default ePub font in iBooks
I acquired a sample epub file from a client to use as a template for new epub files. When I open this file in iBooks (v 1.0.1), the paragraph text by default has the font Iowan, and the style ...
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landscape orientation in ereaders: css for both 1 and 2 page layout?
I'm trying to write css media queries for landscape and portrait orientations.
With widths of 1024 pix and wider, you think that 1024 pixels is enough to have 2 columns instead of 1.
But does any ...
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.epub e-book can't be read in Apple Books
I have an .epub e-book that was created in 2018. It was tested and worked with Kindle, Apple, and several other readers.
Now, the file does not work in Apple books - and multiple people have tested or ...
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EPUB3 Authoring Tools Support Media Overlays
I am trying to create an EPUB3 with read-aloud on my children's book. I have tried CircularFlo and PubCoder. Both applications are able to add the read-aloud feature to the EPUB3. However, it is only ...
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How do I direct links in popup-footnotes directly to main text?
Using calibre and epub3 I'm using popup footnotes (with epub:type). In some of the footnotes I present links (ex. a link to Chapter 2) to the main text. This referred text should not be presented in ...
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iBooks: video tag with autoplay property won't play if there's something else in the document
I have little hope finding any help since it looks like an iBooks bug to me, but here's what I found:
If I have in my EPUB file an XHTML document containing only a <video> element with the ...
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