KF8 Fixed Layout Template UPDATED

Zoomed Image with Live Text

Just a quick post tonight to let you know I've updated the KF8 Fixed Layout Template to include some changes made today.





It's been bothering me for some time now that the comic sample provided by Amazon is just a bunch of images with the text included. Aside from the Panel View feature it's really little more than a pdf, and as provided you can't even zoom the full page image like a pdf. But not having live text in zoomed images to me defeats the whole point of going to the trouble of creating illustrated ebooks in the first place. After all, what's the point of an electronic text device that doesn't support electronic text?






Having worked out how to use the zoom functions for both text and images, the next step naturally was to suss out how to include them both within a single mag target. As you can see from the image on the left I figured it out. That's a zoomed image with live text included, and not by using a separate background image in a text box, but by actually overlaying text onto the magnified image. I'll explain how to do this in the tutorial, part of which I now have to revise.






I had started working on the second part of my KF8 Magnification Region tutorial this afternoon, but got sidetracked with this for several hours instead. Consequently, I didn't finish writing it. But I thought I'd post this up along with links to new template files that include the changes, so that you can look it over in the meantime if you like.




KF8 Fixed Layout Template:




DOWNLOAD .EPUB FILE HERE

DOWNLOAD .MOBI FILE HERE