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bentleymaniac · 04-15-2016, 10:34 PM

Thanks. I haven't yet worried about cleaning up and compressing the images, as that's an easy step that I can leave till last. Unfortunately, the images were originally in a colour PDF scan from archive.org (OpenLibrary section) so all I've done to them so far is run them through pixlr to get rid of the yellow background.

I'm not sure about the copyright on books from archive.org, but as it's only for personal use, I'm not too worried. There are a few public domain books I intend to work on, but I decided to learn on this book, as it has good examples of different layout problems I'll run into later on.

As for tables, sidebars, and boxes, doesn't epub3 have the ability to render them from a few lines of code, rather than adding them in as pictures?

and my main hate: Why does Calibre ALWAYS make the css so messy?

04-15-2016, 10:34 PM	#31
bentleymaniac Enthusiast Posts: 29 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2015 Device: kobo	Thanks. I haven't yet worried about cleaning up and compressing the images, as that's an easy step that I can leave till last. Unfortunately, the images were originally in a colour PDF scan from archive.org (OpenLibrary section) so all I've done to them so far is run them through pixlr to get rid of the yellow background. I'm not sure about the copyright on books from archive.org, but as it's only for personal use, I'm not too worried. There are a few public domain books I intend to work on, but I decided to learn on this book, as it has good examples of different layout problems I'll run into later on. As for tables, sidebars, and boxes, doesn't epub3 have the ability to render them from a few lines of code, rather than adding them in as pictures? and my main hate: Why does Calibre ALWAYS make the css so messy? Last edited by bentleymaniac; 04-15-2016 at 10:47 PM.