AZARDI
AZARDI is a free program designed as an ePUB reader. A commercial customized version is also available. It now supports ePub 3.
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[edit] Overview
AZARDI is designed as a working ePub reader for content authors and user of academic, reference, education (textbooks), instruction manuals, business publications, interactive content and much more. In the free release AZARDI lets the end-user control all aspects of presentation and flow. In the commercial version publishers have control to ensure content presentation matches the subject matter, especially when it incorporates XY layout components.
The AZARDI 8.1 release is a full reinvention of AZARDI and the eBook Reader. This new version is built on the latest Mozilla framework and inherits all the advanced features of Firefox 6.0.
AZARDI 6 works on all desktops Linux, Macintosh and Windows.
The version number of AZARDI now tracks the version number of Firefox. This means the features and capabilities of the reader are always well understood by all users of Firefox and content designers in particular.
The AZARDI User Guide is available in ePub3 format on the resources page.
[edit] Features
- Supports ePub 3 and ePub 2 and secure AZD format.
- HTML5 and CSS3
- Native MathML
- SVG
- Web Browser Typography - OTF properties and hyphenation are supported with the -moz CSS properties.
- Page and flow modes
- Fixed layout capable
- Multiple readers open
- Secure Online linking
- AZARDI Interactive Engine
- Runs on Linux, MacOS X and Windows
- Landmarks support. If your ePub 3 uses landmarks these can be displayed with the new Landmarks button.
- Page Nav. If your ePub 3 uses page navigation this can be displayed with the new Landmarks button and select the Page Navigation option
[edit] Media Support
The ePub 3 specification has MP3 (audio) and MP4 (Video) as the proprietary standards. Since AZARDI is free they authors will not pay for codecs thus you can only see these formats if they are in a Flash Object. AZARDI supports WebM audio and video and OGG Audio and video. MP3 patents are about to expire.
Built-in image viewer. Click on a image to display it, zoom and pan are supported.
[edit] Limitations
Page mode does not support tables overflow or too large an image. Both will be truncated. Switch to flow mode solves this problem.
[edit] For more information
- http://azardi.infogridpacific.com/html/home.html
- http://www.infogridpacific.com/igp/AZARDI/ - parent site.
- This product comes from the same company as eScape.
