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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's a technique which has a number of uses. Some things I've used it for are:
- Including brief passages of Greek in an eBook, where the reader wouldn't normally have had a Greek font available.
- Diagrams and other such things done with ASCII characters which reply on monospaced fonts. I've just done this, for example, with a genealogical chart in a book I'm working on at the moment.
If it's just black and white text, it generally compresses extremely efficiently as a GIF file, so it has no significant impact on the size of the resulting book.
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GIF or PNG are best while JPG can be annoying due to artifacts in the blank areas and at the edge of characters but it can be livable if it is the only choice. Another good use for this technique is equations. If the target format supports monospaced it is sometimes better to switch fonts and then use spaces for formatting if possible. When using images to represent formatted text the pixel width is important. Try to limit any surrounding white space. A given reader may shrink the image resulting in very difficult to read text.
Dale