Questions tagged [ibooks]

iBooks is an e-book application by Apple Inc.

iBooks is an e-book application by Apple Inc. for their iOS operating system and devices. It was announced in conjunction with the iPad on January 27, 2010.

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Ionic iOS share PDF to ibooks

Is it possible to share a PDF to the Apple Books app via an Ionic application? I am sending a message from an iframe inside my Ionic app up to the parent window. This message contains the PDF blob and filename. In Ionic I am checking if the platform…
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Creating Fixed Layout ePub With Overlapping Text/Illustrations

Apple has something called Fixed Layout ePub, that's especially useful for making an iBook of a heavily illustrated children's book with a specific layout of the text and illustrations. I have found guides that explain how to make a Fixed Layout…
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While rendering HTML on iPad, How can we create Page Numbers and TOC dynamically? As done by iBooks

We are developing an app and we have issue that we want to show page numbers and Table of content for our book shown in our app but we are stuck at the point that how can we get the number of pages while rendering HTML on iPad and iPhone? How can we…
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Data cleaning file names in iBooks directory with python

I'm trying to print a list of all the files in the specified directory that end in .pdf Once that is running I want to expand it to print out the number of files that are named "unnamed document" or end in .pdf.pdf.pdf which is a problem among the…
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Open PDF stored in the iBooks application or some other

Im working on a PDF application for the iPad and would like to present the user with a list of available PDF files on the device. I feel that it would be nice if I was able to reuse the PDF files already stored on the device for example in the…
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How can I bundle an iPhone/iPad app with an ebook on iBooks?

I am creating a universal iOS app, which I would like to distribute with certain eBooks published by other authors. When a user purchases specific books, I would like to give them a free download of my app. For example, if my app is a glossary of…
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How to make my program to behave like Dictionary in iBooks?

When I use iBooks on Mac, and highlight a word with a mouse, English Thesaurus is shown: I'd like my program to do similar thing - to appear like this Thesaurus in iBooks. How can it be reached? The simplest idea is recognizing that some text is…
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If i publish an book in iBooks can I get the buyers information?

If i publish an book in iBooks can I get the buyers information? Does apple offer some way to get the information of my buyers. I want to know what a buyer both and his email address so I can include in some specific campaign.
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Is it possible to load a pdf into my iOS app from iBooks?

I have an app that I'm using to create a custom PDF document (containing an image). I'm using my app the save the PDF into iBooks. I would like to be able to later access iBooks and get a copy of the document again. I know that because of…
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Document could not be saved

I'm working on a large iBooks Author file. About 100 pages in, when I went to save it, it said Document Could Not Be Saved. I don't know if it is because of the size of the document, the shape that I added to create a mask over text, or the odd…
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Best way to store images sent from iBooks widget

I'm creating an ibooks widget (which is an HTML page). The HTML has an input (type="file") that collects reader images directly from the device. How can I send those images to my server in order to store them considering that I'm in an iBook with no…
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the name of a feature in iBooks

In iBooks there is a bottom bar filed with miniature images in which the user can scroll through and thus move between the pages I would like to know the name of the bar.
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iBooks Author/iAd Producer Widget User Text Disappears

I'm using iAd producer to create HTML widgets for iBooks I'm making using iBooks Author. I've done some research and learned that I can have user input saved into local storage by way of a variable that is called every time the widget is opened. …
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Remove maximise button on iBooks HTML widget

I've added a PNG animation (acting like a animated GIF) to an iBook HTML widget using CSS, JavaScript and HTML. The problem is that there is a maximize button when hovering over the widget in the iBook preview. I want to remove this because it is…
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interactivity in Epub used ibooks software of ipad

I am used textbox in epub file and view in ibooks software of ipad,but its not properly works,its look like disable. Do you know an easy way to enable the interaction with html inputs in iBooks for Ipad? I have a simple epub with html inputs like…
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