Image sizes

James Simmons <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jan 2014 16:27:38 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.culture.literature.e-books.gutenberg.volunteers
Message-ID <CAN6VRWyAsqetrZo8-Jyh5r4ZmHZQEUg2ucOeqxfTAyWFNMkz7A@mail.gmail.com>
Not all PG books have the problem. Have a look at:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36378/36378-h/36378-h.htm

This was one of my submissions.

It may be that the books with small images are older submissions. This one
from 2004 could use larger illustrations:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14384/14384-h/14384-h.htm

James Simmons


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Ken Arromdee <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi.  I originally just wanted to look in the list archives to see if this
> has
> already been discussed but I had to subscribe first for that.  I decided
> I'd
> post after all.  Apologies if this is the wrong list but it's the best
> list I
> could find.
>
> Anyway, my comment was that when reading books from Gutenberg that have
> images,
> the images seem awfully small.
>
> Searching the website brings up
>
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Public_Domain_eBook_Submission_How-To
>
>     Don't try to keep the highest resolution possible — for HTML, we
> typically presume 96 DPI (dots per inch) with 256 colors, which is a
> "medium" resolution.
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:HTML_FAQ
>
>     If you're an experienced HTML maker, you know this stuff; if you're
> not, take it as a guideline that you should generally aim to keep your
> images in the 40K to 60K size range...
>

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