I find that Sigil (http://code.google.com/p/sigil/) provides a smoother experience of creating or editing epubs than Calibre, although Calibre is a more finished product.
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 6:47 PM, tee <[email protected]> wrote: > Curious if anyone here has experience with ebook development using epub > format that you can share, e.g., common mistake, devices compatibility and > accessibility issue. > > I am in need to make an ebook using the popular epub format, and my > research shows that it's basically the same as building a website, using > XHTML, CSS, XML etc. > > Was reading a web related ebook the other day from iPad's ibook, the book > has tabular layout and images, because I had the font size enlarged, and > this resulted the tabular layout got cut off, which is fine if it can break > the row, and display whatever left on the next page. It doesn't, instead > bottom part of the text in the row got cut off as it reaches footer, so I > set the font size to normal, the table displays more rows but with the same > result with bottom part of the text in the last row of the given page got > cut off. Similar occurs to images too. > > It's an ebook from A Book Apart, therefor I assume that with the solid team > behinds it, this is not caused by negligence in layout but something that > can't overcome. > > Thanks! > > tee > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [email protected] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
