Questions tagged [epub]

EPUB (short for electronic publication) is an open XML-based digital book format which uses XHTML and CSS for document content.

EPUB (short for electronic publication) is an open XML-based digital book format which uses XHTML and CSS for document content. It is widely used in electronic ink devices as well as software ereaders. EPUB documents can be created easily using open-source and commercial tools. More information can be found at the International Digital Publishing Forum, which sponsors the EPUB format.

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iBooks footnote popover does not follow links

Apple's support for ePub 3 footnotes is detailed here by Liz Castro. In short, if the footnote link has the epub:tupe="noteref" format: 1 And the footnote text sits in an
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epub file error in objective c

I am new to iPad developer and i want to create ePub file in my project, I downloaded sample epub file, from here and im stuck with a problem. i am getting this errors in my project... ld: warning: ignoring file…
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render the epub book in android?

I am try to show epub book in android pad. I can parse the html and css, in order to show the book's content and format, perhaps the book include pictures, It seems that I have two option: use Webview. Write a customer view, so that it can render…
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Is there an API to read ePub books?

I'm trying to create an ebook reader for WP7. So far I haven't been able to find any API to read ePub books with. Thanks, Zain
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EPUB creation in .Net

Is there any library out there that I can use to create epub files in .NET/C#? A Flowdocument -> epub conversion tool would be ideal, but any kind of library would be great. I am also interested in an assesment of how complex it would be to write…
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unzipping ePub file doesn't work

I am developping an app to decompress an .epub file into SDCARD in Android. I already read the Can't Unzip EPub File TOPIC. IT WORKED FOR .zip files but not for .epub files. Can somone tell me where is the problem ? here is the exception log: 03-21…
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How to get the epub from an acsm file?

I want to write a small linux tool that automates the download of eBooks. From my online library I can download an ACSM file. Now I need a step to automatically download the epub file. From what I've read this step is called fulfilment. The tool…
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Displaying images using EPUBLIB

I am using epublib to read a .epub file in a WebView. WebView wv = (WebView) getView().findViewById(R.id.chaptercontent); try { String abspath = FILEPATH+file; File filePath = new File(abspath+".epub"); InputStream…
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Two column, parallel text, epub, Is it possible?

I am trying to make a dual-language ebook. I'd like it to be typeset in two columns with one language on the left and the other on the right. Is this possible with the epub specs?
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Problems with internal links/anchors in MOBI output from Kindlegen

I've got a nicely structured EPUB file, and trying to generate a mobi file using KindleGen... The EPUB is filled with footnotes/annotations, which are internal links/anchors. All is well formatted, good HTML ... but the Kindlegen-created MOBI file…
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How to display all pages and all chapters using nl.siegmann.epublib

This is what I tried to perform the task if anyone can help out it would be most appreciated. So in this code it will display just the cover page. I read http://www.siegmann.nl/static/epublib/apidocs/ that you could use getSpine() to get everything…
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Pandoc epub to html: include images & styles in the single page HTML

I use the following command to produce a single page .html file for a .epub file, pandoc -f epub -t html -o output.html ./book.epub But the .html file is lacking images. Is there a way to tell pandoc or something to embed the images in them? Just…
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How to read EPUB book using EPUBLIB?

I found a solution for reading epub books in android using epublib. I am able to read the subtitles of the book. But I didn't find a way to read the line by line of the content. How can I acheive this? Sample code for getting titles of the book is …
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Open epub files in PHP

I want to open an .epub document with PHP, to modify it (for example to add some text on the first page and last page) and to save it back to .epub I found some classes for saving a text into epub file, but I can't find anything about opening an…
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Style anchors in iBooks epub

Is it possible to change the color and other CSS properties of anchors in iBooks epubs? The color property doesn't react at all, while I do get background-color change on normal and hover link state (which activates on tap). The :hover…
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