Re: Image sizes

Eleanore Boyd <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:21:34 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.culture.literature.e-books.gutenberg.volunteers
Message-ID <CAFdD=i9hK=X96LJK1R-6Lf0ZT4E5QvS9hQwp1Ys5PxzWq8RsEw@mail.gmail.com>
...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:
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> On 01/28/2014 02:13 PM, Roger Frank wrote:
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>> On 27 Jan 2014, at 22:31, Greg Newby wrote:
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>>> 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.
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> Regards
>
> --
> Marcello Perathoner
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