Re: Image sizes
Eleanore Boyd <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:21:34 -0600
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...I'm not really sure where this is going anymore... so I'll just assume that no one's thought of downloading for what they have instead of complaining about everything under the sun... *walks away whistling* On Jan 28, 2014 7:50 AM, "Marcello Perathoner" <marcello-ULrl/Sucve/[email protected]> wrote: > > On 01/28/2014 02:13 PM, Roger Frank wrote: >> >> >> >> On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:31, Greg Newby wrote: >> >>> I don't really use the epubs that much. Can someone mention how well >>> things work if we use medium-resolution images, that can click to high >>> resolution images? (a) are they all just packaged in the .epub, >>> regardless, and (b) once the image is downloaded to a device, are >>> large images a problem to display (i.e., slow due to file size)? >> >> >> I posted PG text #44659 recently with medium res images clicking to >> higher res images. As posted and presumably as produced by epubmaker, >> the HTML works as intended. Bursting the epub shows that the links to >> the larger illustrations have been removed and the image files for the >> larger illustrations are not present in the epub. > > > > EPUB does not allow standalone images. epubmaker would have to wrap every `external´ image into a piece of HTML and then rewrite the link. Doable but: > > - The EPUB would then contain 2 sets of images, the set of smaller images being completely redundant. (Kindle would contain 4 sets of images ...) > > - Jumping to the image and back may even take a long time on older readers. > > > IMO 'click for larger image' is just stupid. Desktop browsers nowadays do a very good job of rescaling pics and they load the pics in the background anyway. > > > > > Regards > > -- > Marcello Perathoner > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > gutvol-d mailing list > gutvol-d-4LCm/o+qPMZ96Xl/[email protected] > http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d-4LCm/o+qPMZ96Xl/[email protected] http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d