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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

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!

That's because the strainer is supposed to be used after you've cooked your noodles in the pot -- you don't cook them in the strainer.

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!

I'm not looking forward to it -- any of them.

More seriously, re ADE2 and the issue I was having

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?)

I made them in Photoshop CS6. As for which settings, um, if I remember correctly I did them up as PNG-8, 64 colors, no transparency dither, no matte, in sRGB color space -- at least, that's what my settings were still set at, from the last time I saved as PNG (which as far as I recall was for these particular images that are in question).

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?

Here, I'll attach a sample of what I've been working on, which includes a "title" page where you can see the issue re the PNG transparency in ADE2 (re the ornamental image underneath the main title there), plus I included both the HTML and SVG version of the gallery I've been working on (I only included 3 of the 14 paintings in order to keep the file size down here).

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

Thanks for that, I did search about this before, before I posted this thread, but I didn't seem to find the answer I was looking for -- but that helps, I guess I was probably using the wrong search terms or something. I check that out over the weekend, see if maybe I find any more ideas.

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.

Well, I definitely don't want to be designing for specific readers, let alone stores. My intention was to just give this book away, probably through a variety of different places, and so no doubt it'll end up being viewed on any number of different kinds of readers -- and so, as you say, I'm probably better off just keeping things simple.

It is too bad, because it is nice if I can guarantee that the image/caption stay together -- but then, there's also the fact that I wasn't too crazy about the caption changing size along with the image, too, and in addition to that it seemed that my embedded font wasn't working in the caption either (although that might be because I hadn't included some SVG-specific "font face" code, I just assumed that the caption would use the font specified in the style sheet).

In any case, your response here does have me leaning even more back to just doing it the HTML way, but I'll certainly be interested in anything you can make of the file I've attached here -- especially, at this point, that PNG transparency issue.

Thanks very much, Tex (and also thanks once again to everyone else who has helped here)!