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Originally Posted by kjk
I think some comic aficionados believe the original page composition/layout is an integral part of the experience...ePub's non-fixed, flexible display approach isn't necessarily conducive to that.
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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Um, well the layout is an integral part, no ifs or buts.
Comics are designed around pages, either single or double page spreads.
The art is designed around that exact size, and the page needs to be viewed as a whole. Modern comics do not tend to sit inside a regular arrangement of individual panels which can be shuffled around.
I think the issues around using a general purpose format would be things like margins, automatic headers and footers and so on, none of which are desirable when viewing what is basically a series of full screen images.
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I see the problem when adapting existing comics, but I'm intending to reformat my little webcomic to specifically fit the Kindle screen format. So it would be a series of fullscreen images like you say.
There's a tutorial for optimizing images for the Kindle here:
http://www.robotcomics.net/2009/07/a...-doc-tutorial/
The process and results ain't too pretty. That's for bitmap images. Really need SVG support for this to work well across devices.