Thread: Sigil or Calibre?
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Old 03-31-2016, 04:34 PM   #76
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Originally Posted by Riqiv23 View Post
My cover pages (back and front) were done in a Mac program called Swift Publisher I like to work on.

1) Should I can download Inscape?
2) I'm thinking of doing this any way and will it require Quartz?
https://inkscape.org/en/download/mac-os/

Here's a vid of how it works for the conversion process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cZk08x_rAI

Or SP will export as: PDF, TIFF, JPEG, Portable Network Graphics image and EPS

3) Are any of these usable for my project in Sigil/Calibre?
For the cover my suggestion is to see the cover: not all is good for SVG. If there are pictures, better is JPG. If there are flat colors, PNG.
SVG is nice, but if there are text (and fonts), Ibooks have *big* problem in SVG fonts. JPG and PNG could be a good choice. Please do not make a BIG cover. Usually I prefer to stay inside 140k, more or less. Older ebook reader could be stressed by too big images.
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