Fantasy Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Barsoom Omnibus. v4, 12 Apr 2012

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Sunspark

Hi HarryT, I wanted to share the following feedback on images in case it is of help: Gutenberg makes available a significantly higher resolution image of the one that begins in front of A Princess of Mars (Dejah Thoris)--maybe others as well. Also, in iBooks the classic pulp book cover images are not centered and scaled (half show on another page) and likewise are also low resolution. The centering/scaling issue is one you have solved in the past as the Pride and Prejudice ePub doesn't have that problem.
Thanks!

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll incorporate the higher-resolution images into the next release.

I'm not sure why the images aren't centred in iBooks if the P&P images are. Presumably a consequence of the way that I create ePubs (convert using Calibre) and whatever Jon subsequently did to it? Jon?

[JSWolf]

I'm looking into the code to see if I can see if anything it funky.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Bluefire Reader has been updated for the retna display. Also, now that Bluefire is mentioned in this thread, people can decide what to do, use iBooks when it doesn't work or use Bluefire when it does work.

It's always good to have a choice, but it would be useful to know what the changes were that you made to the ePub that stopped the images being centred in iBooks. Any thoughts on what it may have been?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by HarryT

It's always good to have a choice, but it would be useful to know what the changes were that you made to the ePub that stopped the images being centered in iBooks. Any thoughts on what it may have been?

I didn't make any changes in the code to stop the images from being centered. But I think I've found the problem. I have it on my iPad in iBooks and it's now centered just fine.

One of the styles applied to the cover image is...

.calibre6 {
    height: auto;
    vertical-align: baseline;
    width: auto
}

I've edited it to remove the vertical-align.

.calibre6 {
    height: auto;
    width: auto
}

It works fine with the latest iBooks on my iPad. Do you want me to upload a new version or are you OK with fixing the CSS?

[HarryT]

I can do it. Thanks for that!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I can do it. Thanks for that!

Your welcome.

One thing I have started doing is trying to find higher resolution pulp covers since you'll eventually be putting in higher resolution images. I'll have to do some editing of them to reduce the sizes.

[dckirba]

Thanks Harry