[Framers] ePub

[Doug]

Thanks everyone. I clicked the Edit option on the Publish window and
figured out how to add borders to my images...it works perfectly in ePub
mode.  I'll have to remove the borders from my FM documents and just use
those instead.  Probably will end up using conditional text to use my
original image borders to show up in our PDFs.

Can anyone suggest how to change the color of hotlinks?  My cross-refs
display in the normal blue when they're published, but I'm told to make
them a different shade.

Thanks,

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 2:38 PM Scott Prentice <sp14 at leximation.com> wrote:

> Hi Doug...
>
> I assume you're using the EPUB export in FM? The FM version will affect
> the output significantly, newer versions much better than older. As Rick
> points out, the formatting is controlled by CSS. There are many reasons
> that formatting in your source may now end up as expected in the EPUB. I
> haven't looked at the EPUB output from FM 2019 yet, but I think it's the
> same as it was in FM 2017 (I hear that RH 2019 has a new engine though
> .. need to test that).
>
> One of the big problems with EPUB output from FM (and most tools), is
> that the underlying HTML/CSS is not terribly clean. There's likely a lot
> of hard-coded styling (@style attributes on HTML elements) .. when it
> should be purely @class attribute driven so it's easier to control.
> You'll also see differences in the rendering of pages depending on the
> EPUB reader you're using.
>
> You can look at the HTML/CSS markup by extracting the files from within
> the EPUB. Just change the file extension to ".zip" and use your favorite
> archive tool. In theory you can make edits and zip it back up, but this
> may create an invalid EPUB (the order of files in the archive is
> important, and most archive tools don't let you define that order). If
> you're serious about EPUB, you should get a copy of Oxygen XML Editor.
> It lets you open EPUBs, make edits and save back to the EPUB (properly).
> And since it's an XML editor (and EPUBs are mostly XML), it's a really
> nice tool for making global edits to the files.
>
> EPUB can be really cool .. but the tools and readers are lacking in
> proper support. Keep it simple and you'll have better results. Also tell
> your end users which readers you "support" so they don't try using some
> reader that will make the EPUB looks really bad.
>
> Cheers,
> ...scott
>
>
> On 10/15/18 8:22 AM, Doug wrote:
> > I've been experimenting with publishing to the ePub format.  it looks
> nice,
> > but the images in my document lose their borders during the process.
> I've
> > managed to make a single image retain its border, but none of the others.
> > Even if I set up another image the same way, the border vanishes when I
> > publish to ePub.
> >
> > Ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Doug
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