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Old 10-24-2011, 07:30 PM   #78
jswinden
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Originally Posted by physics View Post
And math equations at best are included as images, but more often OCRed and end up a mess. (0's vs. the letter Phi, integral signs vs. S, oh my.) I'm really hoping the new format means that finally physics/math books are usable!
No sh**! I published a Kindle eBook that covers all the calculus equations necessary to pass the Amateur Radio Extra Class exam. All the math equations were created in a MS Word document then saved as a PDF. I then painstakingly did a screen capture of each equation, saved it into an image file, and used an IMG tag within the HTML to place it into the eBook. I bet there is a better way to do it, but that was what I came up with in 2008 when I created the book. Also, Kindle books have a tendency to require specific image sizes otherwise your images can get doubled resulting in pixelizations. I cannot remember the sizes to avoid but it is a pain to have to remember to do that. I wound up having to buffer the right edges of many images with white space to keep them from being doubled in size.

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