I want to add the com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml file which is described in the ibooks documentation for publishers.
I am using sigil to create my books but i can't add this file within my epub book file.
Can someone show me how to do it?
As far as I have been able to work out, you can not add it with Sigil. Even once it is in Sigil, you can not see the contents of the file; you are only able to see the file is there. Take a look at some of the example projects in this post.
Open the epub file with 7zip, then add the com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml. That should do it, it did work for me.
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I have a field to upload a file to my form. Now I want to be able to view it without downloading the file (it's a photo and no editing of the file is required). When I do download the file I would like to have it keep its original name instead of being renamed to a generic name (ex. original_name.* stays original_name.* instead of becoming serial_number_22.*).
I have the following.
In my .py file:
'file_upload' : fields.binary('Sales Contract'),
In my .xml file:
<field name="file_upload"/>
With kind regards,
Please have a look at this module Document Management System. This helps you in uploading and associating files to individual records. And separately under knowledge menu you can organize, view, share files and folders and sharing via ftp is also an additional option.
I am sorry if your purpose is different. I thought this may help you.
If it's an image, you can use widget="image" to view it directly after upload.
I will try to explain my problem : I have a rails application which, for the moment, shows the files which are present in my public directory (there are only txt files). I would like to transform my txt files into html files using asciidoc command when I click on a button in my application (or automatically when I add a txt file in the directory) but I don’t know how to do that.
Thanks in advance.
I don't see this as being closed so...
The best way to go about this is to use asciidoctor, the ruby implementation of asciidoc. It is used in github and it plays quite well with rails.
To read all the files with .asciidoc extension you can google and find many useful answers, such as the one you pointed out in your comment.
I am a newbie in iPhone development. I am planning to do a PDF application for iPhone. The functionality is:
User will type their input in a text field (which is going to be the content of the PDF file).
I have to modify the PDF file through code while saving (paragraphs, tables, bullets etc).
User can save it in their own name.
User can send the PDF file as attachment of MFMailComposer.
So I have searched and got many links. However I didn't find any leading details to create and modify a PDF file in iPhone/iPad.
Can anyone please provide me a good reference to do this. Are there any alternatives to do this?
I've used this reference: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/GraphicsImaging/Conceptual/drawingwithquartz2d/dq_pdf/dq_pdf.html
It contains theoretical explanations and source code examples
Please use the below link to download sample apps for PDF Reader/Viewer in iOS
PDF Reader/Viewer in iOS
Also please look at detail about pdf creation, manipulation etc in below links
developer.apple: PDF Document Creation, Viewing, and Transforming
Fast-and-lean-pdf-viewer-for-iphone
If you were doing a Phonegap app I'd say got for jsPDF, which would enable you to create (basic) PDF files in Javascript. I don't do Obj-C, but a quick look on SO provides good links.
I am going to developing an application, which is an epub. I have PDF files. I need to make those files as reflowable content(epub)... Then only the PDF files will be viewable in mobiles, tablets... etc.. Please suggest the solutions to make reflowable contents from the PDF...
If you don't mind using an open source software, go with Sigil.
If you want to learn innards of how to create by hand, or some tool of your own, Follow this. (This is a one month course, So you will not get all the content in one day, though).
Create the folder structure.
In a folder of your choice, create the following: META-INF (folder), OEBPS (folder), mimetype ( a file with exactly same name ).
Put application/epub+zip in the file mimetype. No spaces no lines.
Convert your PDF to text format. In Adobe acrobat, you will have file > export> .
Read the content from PDF, you will find some conclusions of how you can split them in to chapters or sub reading topics. Split according to the understanding of the book, and make so many text files.
Make sub folder structure. Make Images, Text, Styles (folders) content.opf, toc.ncx (files) inside OEBPS folder.
Put all your split files in Text folder created in step 5.
put all images extracted in pdf in Images folder
Put any styles (not describing here,) in Styles folder.
In the META-INF folder created in step 1, create a file called container.xml and fill with the following: <?xml version="1.0"?><container version="1.0" xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:container"> <rootfiles> <rootfile full-path="OEBPS/content.opf" media-type="application/oebps-package+xml"/> </rootfiles></container>.
If you are able to do these many things sincerely, ping again, I would try to tell you what you should put in content.opf, and toc.ncx in created in step 5.
As an example, You can use some example from my site. Download from here and use them with caution. Do not distribute.
We're opening up a beta for our web based pdf reflow viewer at the beginning of 2015. Feel free to sign up to be part of our beta test. More info here:
http://flexpaper.devaldi.com/reflow-pdf-documents.jsp
I am trying to develop an iPhone application to read ePub files. Is there any framework available to develop this? I have no idea about how to read this file format. I tried to parse a sample file with .epub extension using NSXML Parser, but that fails.
The EPUB format brings together a bunch of different specifications / formats:
one to say what the content of the book should look like (a subset of XHTML 1.1 + CSS)
one to define a "manifest" that lists all of the files that make up that content (OPF, which is an XML file)
one to define how everything is packaged up (OEBPS: a zip file of everything in the manifest plus a few extra files)
The specs look a bit daunting but actually once you've got the basics (unzipping, parsing XML) down it's not particularly difficult or complex.
You'll need to work out how to download the EPUB, to unzip it somewhere, to parse the manifest and then to display the relevant content.
Some pointers if you're just starting out:
parse xml
unzip
To display content just use a UIWebView for now.
Here's a high level step by step for your code:
1) create a view with a UIWebView
2) download the EPUB file
3) unzip it to a subdirectory in your app's documents folder using the zip library, linked above
4) parse the XML file at META-INF/container.xml (if this file doesn't exist the EPUB is invalid) using TBXML, linked above
5) In this XML, find the first "rootfile" with media-type application/oebps-package+xml. This is the OPF file for the book.
6) parse the OPF file (also XML)
7) now you need to know what the first chapter of the book is.
a) each <item> in the <manifest> element has an id and an href. Store these in an NSDictionary where the key is the id and the object is the href.
b) Look at the first <itemref> in the <spine>. It has an idref attribute which corresponds to one of the ids in (a). Look up that id in the NSDictionary and you'll get an href.
c) this is the the file of the first chapter to show the user. Work out what the full path is (hint: it's wherever you unzipped the zip file to in (3) plus the base directory of the OPF file in (6))
8) create an NSURL using fileURLWithPath:, where the path is the full path from (7c). Load this request using the UIWebView you created in (1).
You'll need to implement forward / backward buttons or swipes or something so that users can move from one chapter to another. Use the <spine> to work out which file to show next - the <itemrefs> in the XML are in the order they should appear to the reader.
Apparently EPUB is "just" an XML format, so if you have an xml parser and the spec it should be okay.
Plus a little tuto? Have fun!
EDIT: you could also read some code here, this is for generating epub, not reading them but the code may be useful.
EDIT again: And see links to related question in the right sidebar, there are some links in the answers to free ebook reader which support ePub.
EDIT 3: You should add a comment when you edit your question so people who answer you can continue the discussion (if you don't comment we're not noticed of your edit).
So, The parsing fail because you didn't read the spec or related questions on Stack Overflow... *.epub file are a zipped folder containing XML file(s), not plain xml.
I read through this tutorial once (free registration required, sorry) and it gave me a great introduction to ePub. deverloperWorks tutorial here
I highly suggest you look at some of the XML processing libraries. If you just want to get specific information out of the XML file, then you can pick the right parsing strategy.
there is an open source project fbreader,
it also support iphone
http://www.fbreader.org/about.php
I'm playing arround to create an epub-framework for iphone apps.
At the moment (I really just startet) i can generate a title page with links to the chapters.
My approach is
Use quickconnect iphone framework as
a layer (maybe i change to phonegap)
which basically allows for javascript
apps as iphone apps
Add the UNZIPed epub as a ressource to the project
Parse the whole thing with a customized version of the epub.js (somewhere on google-code)
Right now I'm looking into pageflip, some kind of gui and minor usability issues (save the current page beingviewed)
I hope that give's you an idea on how to start
Jonathan Wight (schwa) has developed a ObjC solution for parsing and displaying ePub documents on the iPhone. It's part of his TouchCode open source repository.