Fixed Layout Epub: Need switch from spreads to 1-up upon orientation change

I'm getting desperate. We are working on something for a client, and have a tight deadline. We're stuck with a facing-pages InDesign document, and have the Epub up and running as spreads.
Unfortunately, the client really wants it so that when you turn the iPad to portrait, the pages are no longer spreads, but 1-up. They are very demanding on this count. We've been stuck in this project without anyone who's actually done this kind of thing before, so we're learning as we go along, and can't figure this one out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
So, tldr, need spreads in landscape, 1-up in portrait. Help!

Check this out…it may be your only hope:
http://www.circularsoftware.com/
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You can get a free week trial with Lynda.com when you register.

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I'm fascinated with the prospects of the Fixed Layout EPUBs.   In the few video tutorials that are more current, Adobe host shows the ability to PREVIEW the EPUBs using the menu item OBJECT > INTERACTIVE > Epub Previewer. But no go.
So, I've now installed from Creative Cloud, the Extend Script tool kit as well as Extension Manager.   I also installed Edge Inspect CC.
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Sincerely
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Yes, it is an SIL license. I am not using Allatuq anymore, I switched to Quicksand which I got from fontsquirrel.com.
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There are some inconsistencies between how the fonts look in the previewers. The online one is not perfect and the desktop previewer displays exactly as designed so again, I won't really know until I can get my hands on the devices. There is also a sizing issue with the online previewer that the desktop previewer doesn't seem to have. And then there will be the issue that the "purchase" file isn't consistent with the preview file you download so not sure how it will all pan out yet.
I had lots of overlapping and other character spacing issues until I changed my font to the OTF Quicksand with the SIL License. I'm hoping the drop shadows are just an issue with the online previewer.
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Hi Ananda,
Adobe Digital Editions has come up with a new update ADE 4. You can view your Fixed Layout EPUB here. Please note that ADE 4 on Mac works fine with FXL EPUB exported from InDesign CC 2014, you might see some issue on Windows though. We are aware of the issues and the team is working on fixing these issues with ADE on Windows.
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I've created a fixed layout ePub from a print document and everything works perfectly apart from I can't get hyperlinks to work.
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I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here.
I'm running the latest edition of InDesign 2014 CC.
Basically I want the 1st page of the document to be on the left-hand side of the spread, so that my graphics make sense as I've placed them in the document. Like this:
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I'd like to know if adding audio to a fixed layout epub is possible or planned for InDesign? Specifically for read-aloud books—with highlighting each word. I know this can be done with a painfully manual process in the HTML. However it would be swell if it could be done in InDesign somewhat less excruciatingly slow?
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The IDs on <span>s are in the update just released yesterday.
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Hi everybody, I'm really sorry for my english. I'm still working on it.
I come here today with a major doubt. I never worked with fixed layout epubs before, but one of my clients needs a very long manual for one of her products and within it has formatting that can't be supported by a common epub file, so I decided to give a try to fixed layout epubs, everything was great except for one thing. I don't understand why, but it doesn't matter how many times I export, the words that have bold as attribute are shown as regular on Adobe digital editions. At first I thought it was a digital editions' thing, but my client send me some captures (She was testing it at Ibooks) and it was the same. I've been looking information like crazy the whole day, but I can't find anything. The only thing I found was that the fonts attributes to be specified in the css file, I opened at Calibre and I they were there, the bolds and italics and everything, but when I preview the file on Digital Editions, Nothing. Can someone help me? As I said above it is a pretty long document and it has a lot of bolded words so it would be really complicated to edit the line of code at dreamweaver for each word if that's a solution?

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Fixed Layout Epub: Need switch from spreads to 1-up upon orientation change

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