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Old 08-19-2011, 05:18 PM   #1
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Size of page images for Kindle
I'm converting an illustrated children's book for epub (with the ultimate goal being conversion to Kindle), and after tinkering with flowing the images within xhtml text I decided that I was better off exporting page images (from InDesign).

It's working well - the images look nice, the text displays crisply, etc. But I'm getting extra pages between my xhtml pages when I send the epub to my Kindle via Calibre.

That suggests to me that my images are too large for the Kindle 2 screen and those extra pages are a sliver of white space that wouldn't fit. And when I take the images down a few pixels, I lose the extra pages. But -

a) I was under the impression that the Kindle resized images, and would reduce the size of anything that wasn't enormous so that it would fit on one page.

b) I'm using the pixel dimensions (520x622) that Josh Tallent recommends in Kindle Formatting for the Kindle 2. I'm attached to these because I've gone through and re-done my layout in InDesign so that the margins you get around the images on the K2 correspond with elements of the page composition (borders, leading of the text, etc.). Obviously this wouldn't apply for the DX or Kindle for PC (or the K1), but we're pretty sure that our market would mostly just use the K2, and we're relying on resizing.

So does anyone have any advice? Should I use a different size for my page images? Or is there something about my xhtml that may be causing me problems? Here are the relevant lines of code (they don't vary much from page to page):

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<body>
<div>
<img src="images/titleil002.jpeg" alt="Title. Written by Author. Illustrated by Illustrator. Published by Publisher." />
</div>
</body>
This is what I'm using now - I still get an extra page between images even if I add a style="max-width: 100%" to the img line, and even if I put the image between <p> and </p> tags.

Thanks!
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Old 08-20-2011, 03:52 AM   #2
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It doesn't matter what you put in the style, because the mobipocket format doesn't understand CSS, and max-width, in particular has no equivalent in mobipocket, so it will likely be ignored.

Regarding the extra pages, my experience with mobipocket is that it tended to send large images (though resized) to the next page, often leaving a blank page in between. I decided to consider it as a "bug" and live with that.
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It doesn't matter what you put in the style, because the mobipocket format doesn't understand CSS, and max-width, in particular has no equivalent in mobipocket, so it will likely be ignored...
Actually, what is in the CSS is usually important because all of the major conversion programs capable of converting from formats that support CSS do understand CSS and convert CSS formatting to MOBI tags where equivalents exist.
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Sorry for the late reply, hope this is still of use to someone.

Sticking to 520x622 is fine, but to make sure that the image does not get resized by Kindle (resulting in empty pages), put the actual size of the image in the img tag, e.g. <img src="fullpageimage.jpg" width="520" height="622" alt="my image">
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