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Originally Posted by mrmikel
Then you will have the tablet people, especially the 10" tablet people, complaining about the small images.
There is just no way to please everyone, but you can get a sense of what this particular technical audience uses and try to aim for that.
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I bought “Guitar for Dummies” and “Progressive Guitar Method - Finger Picking” from Kobo.
The latter has all scalable images when looking at it through ADE. Guitar for Dummies has no scalable images they all stay the same. I worked out that the musical pieces are all 540 pixels wide
(my monitor screen is 43.3cm wide and 1152 pixel res wide, while the books musical pieces are 20cm wide on my screen. 20cm as % of 43.3cm is 46.9% and 46.9% of 1152px is 540 pixels).
My image widths are currently up to 700 pixels and according to the following, all larger screen eReaders have a width of more than 700.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...e-book_readers
My eBook is going to be specifically for larger screen eReaders (as will be stated in the synopsis). I think that’s the best I could do in the hope technology will improve and automatic image scaling becomes more common. If not having scalable images is good enough for Wiley publishing and their 540px width, then I guess my 700px non scalable image plan is good enough for me. Unfortunately rescaling images in ADE seems to sacrifice the image quality of my diagrams and reading on PC needs to be an option.
It looks like 700 pixels wide would still be smaller within the screen for many of the larger readers if they don’t automatically rescale knowing that most have higher screen res width than 700. Then again, given that surely larger screen eReaders are intended for more graphics and more complex layouts, automatic image scaling is more likely to be standard? I wonder what anyone knows about that?…..Still confused and undecided but feeling a little clearer.