There is extra support for dragging and dropping PDF files, images, HTML files, and more. Here is a list of the supported image effects: Just like adding different styles to videos, questions, and galleries, you can now add styles to images. There is now better support for importing animated EPUBs created from external sources such as iBooks Author (discontinued in 2020) or Adobe InDesign. It now supports importing advanced CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap. Our CSS rendering engine has been rewritten from scratch. Now you can have nested scrollable containers without worrying that your entire chapter will be scrolled. Using scrollable containers inside your mobile app was not possible. There are also performance improvements in the user interface. The reader now uses web workers to utilize multi-threaded processing to make loading and rendering faster than before. The Kotobee Reader standalone app now features a nice addition for users on widescreen displays: Keep the table of contents always open, instead of a sliding panel. Note these options are available only for the embedded reader and not the standalone reader. ![]() This is not a bad thing – in many cases, you may like the user to always see the title of the chapter, or have the bottom tabs always visible for easy access.īefore you export a mobile app, go to the Customization window to set your fullscreen preferences. No full screen The top and bottom bars will always show no matter what. This setting offers the most control as you tap to summon the control bars. Tap Tap anywhere on the screen to toggle the visibility of the chapter and tab bars. When you scroll back up, the bars re-appear. This option is how most apps work, such as Facebook. Scroll The bars will show in the beginning, but as you scroll down through the page the bars will gradually disappear. Ideal for children storybooks, comic books, and magazines, wherever you want the entire screen to be just filled with the colorful pages, without having anything else on there. Pull Pull down the chapter bar or pull up the tabs bar. So we’ve introduced 4 new settings in Kotobee Author. Perhaps one of the most requested features from advanced users creating mobile apps (Android and iOS) is the fullscreen viewing options. To learn more about the page view settings, read this. Alternatively, the chapter can appear on separate pages for horizontal navigation, like reading a print book. The page may contain the whole chapter with a vertical scrollbar, like reading a website. Single page The old single page view displays a single page across the width of the screen. If you have specified certain pages to be on the left-hand side of a two-page spread, and the following page to be on the right-hand side, then they will both display as a two-page spread.ĭouble page If you want double pages throughout the whole book without specifying where particular pages land, you can select the new Double page view mode. As the author of your ebook, you can select one of these options for your ebook or let your readers pick for themselves.Īuto The default setting Auto displays all chapters in single page view, except the ones you set to be a double page spread, through Kotobee Author or any other EPUB editor. Our reader now supports double page view with 3 different view modes. With two-page spreads and multiple options for full-screen viewing, Kotobee reader makes reading even more pleasurable. ![]() ![]() We’ve added new exciting features to the standalone reader and the embedded reader in Kotobee Author ebook apps. While you use our platform, you will notice other little enhancements. In this blog post, we will explain the major new features. This includes major changes to Kotobee Author, Kotobee Library, Kotobee Cloud, and Kotobee Reader. Google lookup: Search definitions and explanations directly with a click.After 3 months of going through major code changes and applying plenty of feature requests, we’re excited to announce the release of Kotobee v1.5. Text-to-speech: Let the reader speak out any text you choose ![]() Copy to clipboard: Copy any text to your clipboard, to use in external programs. Multiple languages: Use one of more than 16 different languages Search: Search inside the chapter or the entire book. Aggregate annotations: Aggregate your notes, highlights, and bookmarks, into a PDF. Bookmarking: Bookmark multiple pages at different locations Highlighting: Mark important sentences with different color highlights. Note-taking: Add notes to words and paragraphs, and access them later. Kotobee Reader gives you a set of reading tools built for your convenience: Kotobee Reader is optimized for the epub 3.0 standard, which supports interactivity and multiple languages. Access Kotobee's free shared library, to download ebooks distributed by other users, and read offline.
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