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Originally Posted by Hitch
I've been sitting here watching this thread, trying for the life of me to understand why on earth it wouldn't have been far simpler to spend 20 minutes in Photoshop to make the image(s) with the chapter text embedded, which could EASILY have been put inside the appropriate alt-tags, to enable TTS, and I still don't understand why it wasn't done,
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I agree, that seems like such an obvious solution and I did think of that, too, but looked for an alternative solution for one simple reason: bandwidth. To do it that way, I'd have to have a separate image for each and every chapter (and this book I'm working on has 20+ chapters), but with this SVG method I only have to include a single image. It's a huge difference in the file size of the book.
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particularly considering that these "chapter heads" won't work for K7 MOBI.
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Does everybody out there design just one single version of their books that works on virtually every platform? That seems like a shame, actually. While I would certainly agree that it would be ridiculous to come up with countless different versions geared to work on each and every platform, I don't think it would be unreasonable to do two versions -- a "fancy" version for those platforms that can handle the fancier stuff, and a "plain" version for those that don't.
I know I'm getting a bit off-topic here (from the original subject heading of this thread), but the book I'm currently working on is only my second one, and so far I've pretty much be designing exclusively for iBooks/ADE. Naturally I'd also like to come out with a Kindle version, too (if only for the greater market share that one can reach), but I haven't even begun to look into it -- yet -- and must admit that it seems rather daunting. All I keep hearing is that "you can't do this" and "you can't do that", because earlier Kindles just won't support it -- but hey, at the same time, "you can do it for KF8!"
Well, what the hey, how does one design for Kindle at all, then, if one wants to incorporate any kind of
design? What's the point in coming up with a design that'll work in KF8 if anyone with an earlier model won't be able to render it properly? Or does amazon have things set up somehow that if your design incorporates things that will only work in KF8 (or whatever), then you need that in order to even buy the book in the first place?
I have no idea how Amazon/Kindle works -- I have no idea what format the files are in, like, if they're in HTML/CSS like epubs are, or what. I guess I should start googling it and learning about it in my spare time, of course, but in that regard if anyone can point me directly to a really good tutorial on the subject (and hopefully one that's not too confusing) that would be much appreciated.
And thanks in advance for that!
