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Old 12-16-2008, 10:50 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by falcolas View Post
My one question - what is the best file format to output the images in?
See MobiPocket's Image support and display. This says that 63KB is the maximum filesize for JPEG as well as other formats, but that isn't the case any more. The bottom line is that if you use JPEG you don't need to worry about image file size, otherwise it still needs to be less than 63KB. The downside of JPEG is that it is a lossy format, which suggest that line drawings and images of text should be GIFs. Hopefully these will be less than 63KB in size (otherwise MobiPocket's tools will convert it to JPEG when making the MOBI).

Note that Calibre (mobi2oeb) converts all images to JPEG when format shifting MOBIs.

Last edited by wallcraft; 12-16-2008 at 10:59 PM. Reason: no 63KB limit for JPEG
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