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Originally Posted by RbnJrg
Ah, ah, ah. We have a problem here  You can have a background image with text over it but troubles appear when you want all the text stay within the background image. We have a problem because ADE doesn't support the properties to achieve that. |
I can't thank you enough, Rubén, for your time and trouble in helping me -- or maybe I should say for your patience in putting up with me.
I'm a bit confused now, though. When this whole thread started, you said that you thought that using the background-image CSS method was better than the SVG method, but now I get the impression that perhaps it's actually SVG that you think would be better. Did I get confused about something along the way?
That method you pointed to for centering text vertically on a page was rather interesting, too, actually -- although as you indicated, it won't work on all devices (i.e. not in ADE). I can see that the SVG method does have the advantage that one can get text to center on the page -- it comes out pretty much as though one had actually made a graphic of the text, in fact, except without the "overhead" of having tons of extra graphics in one's epub (which in my case would have been one each for the 20+ chapters in my book).
I have to wonder, though, if doing it that way (SVG) introduces some limatations? As I mentioned before -- and which you resolved for me -- there's the fact that my chapter title texts don't get made into <h1> tags, but I also wondered about two other things: searching, and text-to-voice readers. I tried out a search on my ipad, and that seems to work okay, but I'm not sure how a text-to-voice reader would work, if it would pick up on those chapter titles and "read" them, too (not to mention read them as headings, not just simply "text").
I guess wondering about this accessibility issue might inadvertently introduce a problem that would cause my ebook to be rejected -- and I guess that's why I was wondering about the background-image/CSS method that you originally mentioned. Like I said, I tried to do it that way, but couldn't get it to work (using the larger background image that I loaded up in my previous reply.
In other words... I'm still a bit confused, and not sure which method would be the better way to go! Sorry...
