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Originally Posted by tbranson13
FYI, I'm making children's picture books for EPUB and having a devil of a time figuring out Sigil's image output (size, resolution, etc.). So any information on dealing with inserted images in Sigil would be most appreciated.  |
Hi:
Other folks answered your other part, so I'll skip over that. With regard to these last two sentences of yours, I think there is a misunderstanding--Sigil doesn't have "image output size." You set the image size by virtue of a) the size of the original image you place in the file, and b) the HTML and CSS coding that you use to tell the image to display properly in the resulting ePUB file. Sigil doesn't do it for you, and it does not have an image-resizing feature like...like Word. You can't click on the image, grab a corner, and make the image larger/smaller. Sigil's not a word-processor; it's an XHTML/CSS ePUB editor, meant for working in code, primarily. So you'll need to have some familiarity with HTML, at least, or HTML and CSS, in order to set "image output size."
You'll want to know precisely how many pixels, in height and width, you want your image to display at, and set that in the coding.
Also, can you tell me--are you trying to create an illustrated children's book? Like images with text atop the illustrations, for a fixed-format book, for iBooks or Kindle? Or simply a young reader's story, with some illustrations embedded in the text, along the way? Are the illustrations the primary feature of the story, or an adjunct to the story?
Hitch