Re: [docbook] ePub problems on Android devices

On Sep 11, 2015 9:17 AM, "Flavia Majlis" <flavia.majlis@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:

Thank you for your help, Peter. Since we have pretty large tables to display, we thought that maybe a pdf file would be a solution. The tables are indeed displayed perfectly in the pdf output in the tablets, but I was not able to embed videos into the pdf documents using DocBook.
Is there any way to embed media for pdf output using DocBook?
Thank you!
Flavia

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Peter Lavin <lavin.peter@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Flavia,

I've used DocBook to produce EPUB 3.0 files and opened them on Android
phones (Nexus 4 and Nexus 5) and on a Nexus 7 tablet using both Google
Books and the Aldiko reader without experiencing any issues. Tables
are problematic on any device especially smaller ones often requiring
that you limit the number of columns. I haven't embedded media files
in ebooks so can't speak to that issue.

Many ereaders don't fully support CSS 3--and that has been my
experience with Aldiko--so that may possibly be an issue.

Hope that helps.

On 10 September 2015 at 16:53, Flavia Majlis

<flavia.majlis@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am using DocBook to create ePub files. The ePub can be viewed perfectly on
> iOS devices (iPhone 6 and iPad, with iBooks) but I could not find an ePub
> reader that would format the ePub document properly on the Android device.
> We tried many ePub readers, but they would either not be able to format the
> tables properly, or they would not play the videos from the ePub file... Any
> ideas?
> Thank you so much!
> Flavia
>
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> BFA, Photography, Concordia University
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