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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Well, on the same subject, I'm curious how hard it is to do ebooks with lots of images, simply because I've got a few coming up that I'm going to be working on that will have lots of images in them. Most of them will be character sketches and the like, but still, there will be quite a few pictures.
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Must not be too hard.
Many books I read have maps and diagrams, just like their paper cousins.
The issue is (and it holds true for the paper version): Was the layout designed for the current Media?
Many PDF provide a prime example. They were produced for a
single, physical PAPER size., about 6"x9" for trade paper/HB.
Lots of space for artistic effects (white space, large graphics).
Cram that onto a 3"x4" (5" e-reader) screen
Hammer that onto a even smaller phone screen
Look at what you produce on a variety of device types. Big, small, color, mono-chome (and at different grey scale capability)and test on (buggy) ADE as well as some of the viewers found here at MR. See if you can work around the
bugs.
Avoid absolute values for size and placement., they mess any flow.
Use proportional and relative layout.
Example: Indent I usually change the indents Webscriptions uses (they seem to format for a larger screen) from 2em to 3%. The wider the screen, the bigger the indent and the indent does not become larger on Zooming the text on my 6" reader.
Margins: My reader has a built in margin( Bezel), Paper books only had paper. Use the whole screen as a canvas.
If the graphic is huge, can you slice it so "page only" type readers can see portions at a decent size (remember to provide a slight overlap on the sliced edges)?