Property linear="no" on epub2

RbnJrg · Yesterday, 05:56 PM

Hi;

Maybe some of you had this problem and were able to solve it. For my part, I haven't been successful so far and I would like to know how those who were successful handled the issue.

It turns out that I have a couple of .xhtml files that I don't want to be seen in the epub (epub2); I want them to only be accessed through a link. I tried to achieve this via the linear="no" property in the <spine> section of the .opf file. But nothing to do; at least in ADE 2.x/3.x the .xhtml files can be accessed like any of the others. Interestingly, under epub3 everything works fine, as expected, but under epub2, nothing seems to take effect.

Thank you very much in advance for any advice that allows me to solve this problem.

JSWolf · Yesterday, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by RbnJrg

Hi;

Maybe some of you had this problem and were able to solve it. For my part, I haven't been successful so far and I would like to know how those who were successful handled the issue.

It turns out that I have a couple of .xhtml files that I don't want to be seen in the epub (epub2); I want them to only be accessed through a link. I tried to achieve this via the linear="no" property in the <spine> section of the .opf file. But nothing to do; at least in ADE 2.x/3.x the .xhtml files can be accessed like any of the others. Interestingly, under epub3 everything works fine, as expected, but under epub2, nothing seems to take effect.

Thank you very much in advance for any advice that allows me to solve this problem.

linear="no" does not work in ADE 2/3. It's ignored. I don't know abut ADE 4.

RbnJrg · Yesterday, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

linear="no" does not work in ADE 2/3. It's ignored. I don't know abut ADE 4.

Ok, thank you very much! Do you know any other way to hide a .xhtml file? I don't want it to show in the epub spine. I'm speaking about epub2.

DNSB · Yesterday, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by RbnJrg

Ok, thank you very much! Do you know any other way to hide a .xhtml file? I don't want it to show in the epub spine. I'm speaking about epub2.

The only way to hide a xhtml file in an ePub2 that I am aware of is removing it from the spine. This, of course, causes validation errors.

RbnJrg · Yesterday, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by DNSB

The only way to hide a xhtml file in an ePub2 that I am aware of is removing it from the spine. This, of course, causes validation errors.

Thanks. I will try it; if it works, a validation error is not important to me (in this case).

Jellby · Today, 11:43 AM

You can put it at the end of the spine. It will still appear and be counted in the total pages, but you don't need to page through it when reading.

Or you can use a KOReader, which supports linear="no" (Hide non-linear flows), if it's just for your own use.

RbnJrg · Today, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Jellby

You can put it at the end of the spine. It will still appear and be counted in the total pages, but you don't need to page through it when reading.

Or you can use a KOReader, which supports linear="no" (Hide non-linear flows), if it's just for your own use.

Hi;

I tried KOReader without success; linear="no" seems not to be supported there either. Yes, I put the .xhtml files at the end of the epub, so the reading is not disturbed. But I wanted to hide those files if had been possible. By suppressing those files inside the spine section in the .opf file, the .xhtml are not showed at all, but they can not be accessed by links to them either

KevinH · Today, 05:39 PM

Could you make images of each extra xhtml page that could be loaded on demand? Perhaps an svg image with actual text?

And if I remember the epub2 spec had something about "xml islands" that might be a way to hide a page but still load it. Or maybe use frames or iframes in some way or the object tag to fall back to what you want?

Yesterday, 05:56 PM	#1
RbnJrg Wizard Posts: 1,571 Karma: 7043711 Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Rosario - Santa Fe - Argentina Device: Kindle 4 NT	Property linear="no" on epub2 Hi; Maybe some of you had this problem and were able to solve it. For my part, I haven't been successful so far and I would like to know how those who were successful handled the issue. It turns out that I have a couple of .xhtml files that I don't want to be seen in the epub (epub2); I want them to only be accessed through a link. I tried to achieve this via the linear="no" property in the <spine> section of the .opf file. But nothing to do; at least in ADE 2.x/3.x the .xhtml files can be accessed like any of the others. Interestingly, under epub3 everything works fine, as expected, but under epub2, nothing seems to take effect. Thank you very much in advance for any advice that allows me to solve this problem.

Today, 05:39 PM	#8
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,843 Karma: 5449464 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Could you make images of each extra xhtml page that could be loaded on demand? Perhaps an svg image with actual text? And if I remember the epub2 spec had something about "xml islands" that might be a way to hide a page but still load it. Or maybe use frames or iframes in some way or the object tag to fall back to what you want? Last edited by KevinH; Today at 05:46 PM.

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Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,519 Karma: 19000001 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	You can put it at the end of the spine. It will still appear and be counted in the total pages, but you don't need to page through it when reading. Or you can use a KOReader, which supports linear="no" (Hide non-linear flows), if it's just for your own use.