Well, I'm frustrated -- again. I spent hours last night doing up all 20+ chapter title pages in that SVG method you posted, Rubén, and although they all look great now, I'm such a dummy that it was only
after I'd spent all that time fixing up every chapter title so that it would look nice -- which is a total pain to do when you have to adjust everything with pixels rather than just specifying a heading or paragraph or whatever -- that it hit me that in the process I'd invariably lost all my <h1> tags (duh!) and hence none of the chapters were getting marked to the table of contents either.
If only for this latter reason (re the ToC) and, indeed, for the MUCH greater ease of editing, I thought I'd go try out your background-image method instead, and see what happens, i.e....
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Originally Posted by RbnJrg
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I couldn't get this to work for me -- at least, not with that background image that I've been using. I'm assuming that I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know what. That background image is 1200x1800, but I adjusted the code you gave at the above link to give the image a height of 900.
In Sigil it looks fine -- and I haven't looked yet, but I'm guessing it probably would look fine in iBooks -- but in ADE it doesn't work at all. The image comes out HUGE (i.e. full-size), not constrained to the 900px height, let alone is it "contained". And my title text seems to get lost off to the side somewhere, "invisible".
Any suggestions? What I had hoped to do isn't quite what you had done at the above link -- you basically had a lo-res image that sat at the top left corner of the page (or that's how it "looks", of course), but I wanted a full-page image, and then plop my chapter title text on that.
If it's just not really doable or practical, well, I'll just scrap the idea -- but even if it works in some readers and then for others just shows the text but no background image at all (without "breaking" anything), I could live with that.
