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Originally Posted by Psymon
Okay! I've attached here what I've accomplished (so far) today. 
Two questions...
I wanted to increase the page margins just a LITTLE bit, now that I've added a background image, and found out how to do that via a page in these forums, but it doesn't seem to be working (I've tried all kinds of different things) -- what am I doing wrong???
Also, re the background image, is there a way to get it to stretch (or shrink) to fill the entire viewing area but without wrapping? I'm not sure if I'm explaining that well, but I was thinking that it would be cool if I could do a background of that "old paper", but have it fade to white at the edges around all four sides -- but at the same time resize if one is in landscape or portrait mode (or in another ebook software).
Does that make sense? Or is trying to do what I'm trying to do with a background too buggy -- and should I just scrap it?
I guess I'm getting off-topic for what was my initial question here (re font embedding), but I thought I'd ask you folks here since you've been so wonderfully helpful for me today. |
You seem to be setting various margins in px? May I ask why you're doing that? (And what are you doing with those spans, BTW? The "white-space: nowrap" spans? I hate to tell you, but that won't work in any ADE-based reader.)
Secondly, where is it that you perceive that you're setting margins for the page--which is what I infer your intent to be--that you want to increase "just a bit?" Is that the page 4pts setting, at the top of your stylesheet?
The background image question--if you're only trying to publish on iBooks, I suppose they won't care, and it will
likely work. If you're trying to publish in other readers, you're likely to run into issues with the background image and you may run into problems with some of those TTF's.
On a bright note in an otherwise dreary day, I am, however, eternally grateful that I'm not the poor bugger stuck proofing this. No reflection on your book; my eyes are simply too old for that. ;-)
Hitch