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Never mind that learning how to do this the SVG way is turning out to be like taking a graduate course in physics or chemistry or something -- and all just to learn how to boil water.  |
Boiling Water? That is some hard stuff! Does anyone even know how to do that?
The water just keeps on falling out of the pot, I have no clue how to keep it in there!
I was recently chatting with Hitch, and Hitch mentioned that if I ever finished writing and posting my SVG Tutorial... it would probably be "about 25 pages". I laughed. I just took a look at my Formula to PNG Tutorial, and it is ~9 pages.... SVG is way more complex... I would have to take up about 50!
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OFFTOPIC: On an unrelated note, while checking this in ADE v.2, I noticed that my transparent PNGs (used elsewhere in my book) aren't transparent, the entire area that should be transparent comes out as black (which looks awful, of course). Does ADE2 not support PNG transparency?
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Hmmm... it SHOULD handle PNG transparency perfectly fine. What program did you use to generate it? (Photoshop? Which version? What settings did you use while saving the PNG?)
Mind sending a few of those images my way so I can do some fiddling?? Or just attach a sample EPUB with the problem in it?
There was a bug I found a long time ago with PNG transparency, although that was with Kindles. (I wrote down the specifics at the time in my Formula to PNG thread). Although that had mostly to do with the way that I heavily optimized the images (Indexed + Transparency). Never did research any further.
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[...] And should I care what ADE2 does (so to speak)?
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I wouldn't ignore it... just like there are millions of older Kindles out there, there are also a bunch of older devices on the older ADE (RMSDK) engines. Not everyone has the latest+greatest versions of the readers!
We had a nice big chat about images with captions (perhaps one of THOSE solutions might help you as well) + the typical warning about not ignoring older readers. You can also see my Post #9 where I listed 6 other MobileRead topics asking similar "image with captions" question:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=223178
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I was teetering on the brink of my fence-sitting a few moments ago, not sure which way to lean, but now I'm starting to lean back to the side of just doing it the HTML way and putting up with the occasional (and easily fixable by the user) issue of the captions sometimes ending up on the next page. :/
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Yep yep, this is the camp I fall in. Design it in a way and hope it falls on the same page, if not, oh well. Although I must add, that works well for my situation (trying to create a "one source EPUB to rule them all"). If you didn't mind creating SPECIFIC files for SPECIFIC stores/readers, then the SVG wrapper is clearly the superior technical choice.