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Submitted by bill on January 15, 2012 - 7:52am
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This "IDPF/EPUB General" forum is intended for general questions and discussion relating to IDPF and/or EPUB. Topics about the latest version of the EPUB, EPUB 3, should be posted in the "EPUB 3" forum. Topics about EPUB accessibility should be posted in the "EPUB Accessibility" forum.

Thanks!

Bill McCoy
Executive Director, IDPF

 
 
Submitted by jem butcher on January 21, 2012 - 4:57am

Hi, all can you help?

We at movie-book.co.uk are trying to get animated book covers on e-pub, in the same way you can put a jpg of the front cover image there.
It would be useful to have some 'conversion' formula which could be used. We are aware of compatibility issues with Apple and Flash.
The files can initially be either be video or gif. But we can save down to whatever format is needed.
Please take a moment to look at our site movie-book.co.uk
An easy way to see our work is -
http://vimeopro.com/moviebook/screening

We have worked with many of the publishers in the uk and we are now working with the US. All parties are really keen for this to happen, and the customers love them. The demand is there, we just need to negotiate this small technical hurdle.
Kind regards and appreciation.
Jem Butcher
0208 292 2665
07969 890 399

Submitted by bill on January 29, 2012 - 8:42am

Dear Jem, sorry for delayed response but I did not notice this addition to intro topic - next time please post as a new topic (I should have "closed" this one though so my bad).

Anyway you can create an intro video in EPUB 3 (and should work in Reading Systems that support many EPUB 3 features, like Apple iBooks) by making the first spine item akin to a "title page" and include the video there. The OPF resource with cover-image property does not need to be in the spine content at all, it is so designated so it can be used for bookshelf thumbnails and similar (for which presumably you don't want video). If this does not fully answer your question please post a follow-up. Thanks!

--Bill McCoy

Submitted by lakshmithanika on January 30, 2012 - 6:04am

Hi Jem Butcher, We do found a way out (possibly) for your query. A sample code in HTML for cover page is given below. Please give a try;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>cover</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="template.css" type="text/css"/>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
</head>
<body style="margin:0; padding:0; font-size:0;">
<div>
<p class="center"><object data="images/AnimCover.swf" width="800" height="660" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<param name="movie" value="images/AnimCover.swf"/>
<param name="play" value="true" />
<param name="loop" value="true" />
<param name="quality" value="high"/>
<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"/>
<param name="pluginurl" value="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"/>
</object></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Thanks
Lakshmi, SET INFOTECH

Submitted by jem butcher on February 6, 2012 - 3:21am

Bill and Lakshmi

Thanks for your help on this, I think we are getting there. It would be useful to set up a meeting to physically see examples of this working.
Best Wishes

Jem

Submitted by neetu kalra on April 25, 2012 - 10:09pm

We are processing epug 2.0.1 and facing issues images with embedded text. The quality of text embeded on images is appearing blurred on ADE. My customer is giving me the feedback on image quality. Please suggest how to address this issue. Thanks

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