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bobmcconn · 10-29-2014, 05:37 PM

I believe i have a similar, albeit I suspect much more basic, question/problem. 1. my prior knowledge of ebook production is nil; 2. I work with a team of epidemiologists who've worked on a long term study for ~ 35 years. I've created a set of rather detailed graphs that summarize each woman's history in the study. While once upon a time everyone just used PCs to "look" at the data..now, for good reason, members of our group would like to be able to use their iPad, nook, kindle etc. There are 221
women - hence 221 graphs similar to this: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...8&l=24ad70bd73. While the outlining program i used can create a mobi file - the file seems awfully huge and cumbersome. A chm version of the files is ~ 65K, the mobi file ~ 160K. When i attempted to use calibre to convert the file to epub, the conversion worked..after a fashion, but the resolution of the graphs was completely degraged/smudged. I'm sure there's an option to tell Calibre NOT to reduce image size/quality but i haven't twigged it yet. I think all i really want/need is a fixed layout format w/ a index/table of contents to each graph and a page (landscape) for each. Any and all suggestions - above and beyond rtfm - would be most gratefully appreciated.
thanks for your indulgence,
bob mcc.

10-29-2014, 05:37 PM	#14
bobmcconn Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2014 Device: kindle, ipad	I believe i have a similar, albeit I suspect much more basic, question/problem. 1. my prior knowledge of ebook production is nil; 2. I work with a team of epidemiologists who've worked on a long term study for ~ 35 years. I've created a set of rather detailed graphs that summarize each woman's history in the study. While once upon a time everyone just used PCs to "look" at the data..now, for good reason, members of our group would like to be able to use their iPad, nook, kindle etc. There are 221 women - hence 221 graphs similar to this: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...8&l=24ad70bd73. While the outlining program i used can create a mobi file - the file seems awfully huge and cumbersome. A chm version of the files is ~ 65K, the mobi file ~ 160K. When i attempted to use calibre to convert the file to epub, the conversion worked..after a fashion, but the resolution of the graphs was completely degraged/smudged. I'm sure there's an option to tell Calibre NOT to reduce image size/quality but i haven't twigged it yet. I think all i really want/need is a fixed layout format w/ a index/table of contents to each graph and a page (landscape) for each. Any and all suggestions - above and beyond rtfm - would be most gratefully appreciated. thanks for your indulgence, bob mcc.