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Hosun
Hosun
Inspiring
February 6, 2023
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front cover in reflowable EPUB

  • February 6, 2023
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Hi, 

 

I made a reflowable EPUB. 
There is a front cover (Screenshots 1-2).

 

When the Books app's window is down-sized, my name appears on page 2 (Screenshots 3-4).

 

If my name is always on page 1, it would be better. 

Is there any solution?

or

Is that enough?

 

Hosun


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Correct answer James Gifford—NitroPress

There are very few aspects of layout that are based on InDesign document pages that export meaningfully to reflowable EPUB. Most things like vertical centering and such either don't work, or don't work predictably because reflowable EPUB essentially does not have pages. More precisely, a reflowable EPUB is one page that is broken into display pages by the actions of the reader. So vertical positioning is amost entirely controlled by top and bottom spacing on each style, and it varies whether space-above at the top of a page is "collapsed" or not.

 

It's best to make your page layouts not depend on precise vertical spacing, or rely on ID features such as vertical justification. Most won't work out as intended. As with the name issue, apply spacing that will fit within the smallest reasonable reader page, so that larger pages will have some space at the bottom but smaller pages won't break up the content.

 

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James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
February 6, 2023

Move your name further up the first page. You don't have control of how tall a reader's display page will be, so it's best to keep content to a fairly short height so that these breaks don't happen on smaller screens.

 

ETA: You can also create and include a graphic front cover, rather than this "rasterize first page" hack that is mostly meant for things like reports and other simple, regularly produced documents.

 

Hosun
HosunAuthor
Inspiring
February 6, 2023

Thank you very much for your reply.

I have one more question.

 

[Screenshots 1 and 2]

I will make a seperate cover at the last stage.

I want to present subtitle on page 1 of EPUB. 

 

[Screenshots 3 and 4]

I moved up the name on Id and it is seen in the Books app.

 

[Screenshot 5]

Do Vertical Justification: Center and Vertical Justification: Top make any difference? (to the presentation on EPUB)

 

Hosun

 

 

James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPressCorrect answer
Legend
February 6, 2023

There are very few aspects of layout that are based on InDesign document pages that export meaningfully to reflowable EPUB. Most things like vertical centering and such either don't work, or don't work predictably because reflowable EPUB essentially does not have pages. More precisely, a reflowable EPUB is one page that is broken into display pages by the actions of the reader. So vertical positioning is amost entirely controlled by top and bottom spacing on each style, and it varies whether space-above at the top of a page is "collapsed" or not.

 

It's best to make your page layouts not depend on precise vertical spacing, or rely on ID features such as vertical justification. Most won't work out as intended. As with the name issue, apply spacing that will fit within the smallest reasonable reader page, so that larger pages will have some space at the bottom but smaller pages won't break up the content.

 

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