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Paddlin · 11-19-2010, 07:11 PM

Hey everyone,

So I'm designing a book to go up on the iBooks store and I want to put one image that fills the page (as best it can) at the beginning of every chapter. Everywhere I look online cites 600x860 pixels as the so-called "magic number" to fill the screen with the image, but the images I place in at that size seem too small.

Here's my process, for what it's worth. I'm making the images in Photoshop, placing them in their own "chapters" in InDesign, and converting from .indd to .epub. I've also seen various references online telling me to add "style="max-width: 100%" to the img tag in the XHTML document, but that doesn't seem to do anything either.

Any ideas?

11-19-2010, 07:11 PM	#1
Paddlin Member Posts: 22 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: iPad, but usually not iBooks	The "Magic Number" (600x860) Not Working Hey everyone, So I'm designing a book to go up on the iBooks store and I want to put one image that fills the page (as best it can) at the beginning of every chapter. Everywhere I look online cites 600x860 pixels as the so-called "magic number" to fill the screen with the image, but the images I place in at that size seem too small. Here's my process, for what it's worth. I'm making the images in Photoshop, placing them in their own "chapters" in InDesign, and converting from .indd to .epub. I've also seen various references online telling me to add "style="max-width: 100%" to the img tag in the XHTML document, but that doesn't seem to do anything either. Any ideas?