weird image problem

radiocure · 07-09-2011, 04:40 PM

I've made a number of ebooks in the ePub format from scratch, then converted them to .mobi as well in Calibre. Usually I have no problems, but with one I'm having a bizarre image thing.

Basically, on the Kindle the images are displayed, but above them the bottom half of the image is displayed again, like it's all one big image with the bottom half appended to the top of the picture. Does that make sense? Since it's on the Kindle I can't screenshot it (the problem does not occur in the Calibre viewer) but I can try to take a digital camera photo if nobody knows what I'm talking about.

Thanks.

dwig · 07-09-2011, 07:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by radiocure

...Since it's on the Kindle I can't screenshot it ...

Type ALT SHIFT H or ALT SHIFT G to take a screen shot. It will same a GIF in the device's "documents" folder.

radiocure · 07-10-2011, 03:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dwig

Type ALT SHIFT H or ALT SHIFT G to take a screen shot. It will same a GIF in the device's "documents" folder.

Thanks! Handy one to know. Screenshot attached.

kovidgoyal · 07-10-2011, 03:14 PM

try normalizing that image by saving to png then jpg in some decent image manipulation program.

radiocure · 07-10-2011, 03:43 PM

Kovid -

Thanks for the suggestion. (I love Calibre, by the way.) But that didn't seem to do the trick. Converted to png then back to .jpeg in Photoshop (it was a JPG to begin with).

kovidgoyal · 07-10-2011, 03:46 PM

try sticking a pagebreak before the image.

radiocure · 07-10-2011, 04:00 PM

I had one before the image like this already:

<div style="page-break-before:always;"></div>

Is that correct? I just took it out, too, just to see, and the problem persists.

kovidgoyal · 07-10-2011, 04:02 PM

Then I'm out of ideas.

radiocure · 07-10-2011, 04:10 PM

It's so bizarre, because I have never seen this problem before at all. And this book is in a series of books for a client, and I've formatted it exactly the same way as the other ones, in which the problem does not exist. Thanks for the attempt. I'm going to keep cracking away at it. If I figure it out, I'll post the solution here.

07-09-2011, 04:40 PM	#1
radiocure Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	weird image problem I've made a number of ebooks in the ePub format from scratch, then converted them to .mobi as well in Calibre. Usually I have no problems, but with one I'm having a bizarre image thing. Basically, on the Kindle the images are displayed, but above them the bottom half of the image is displayed again, like it's all one big image with the bottom half appended to the top of the picture. Does that make sense? Since it's on the Kindle I can't screenshot it (the problem does not occur in the Calibre viewer) but I can try to take a digital camera photo if nobody knows what I'm talking about. Thanks.

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07-10-2011, 03:14 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,842 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	try normalizing that image by saving to png then jpg in some decent image manipulation program.

07-10-2011, 03:43 PM	#5
radiocure Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	Kovid - Thanks for the suggestion. (I love Calibre, by the way.) But that didn't seem to do the trick. Converted to png then back to .jpeg in Photoshop (it was a JPG to begin with).

07-10-2011, 03:46 PM	#6
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,842 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	try sticking a pagebreak before the image.

07-10-2011, 04:00 PM	#7
radiocure Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	I had one before the image like this already: <div style="page-break-before:always;"></div> Is that correct? I just took it out, too, just to see, and the problem persists.

07-10-2011, 04:02 PM	#8
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,842 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Then I'm out of ideas.

07-10-2011, 04:10 PM	#9
radiocure Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	It's so bizarre, because I have never seen this problem before at all. And this book is in a series of books for a client, and I've formatted it exactly the same way as the other ones, in which the problem does not exist. Thanks for the attempt. I'm going to keep cracking away at it. If I figure it out, I'll post the solution here.