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Originally Posted by bentleymaniac
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.
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Hmm ok, well then in the future perhaps you want to link to Archive.org instead of attaching. I know the MobileRead mods are always sticklers for copyrighted books (it is in the MobileRead Rules if you haven't read them yet):
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/faq...ing_guidelines
Then the Archive.org link might give more detailed info on that specific copy of the book.
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Originally Posted by bentleymaniac
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? |
Well, I am in the camp of always digitizing Tables to HTML instead of plopping them in books as Images (it can be read using Text-to-Speech, it is more accessible, can be resized according to user preferences, [...]). I have written extensively on the topic in multiple occasions.
Here was the latest topic I remember specifically on HTML Tables (also, I went into some JPG/PNG examples as well.... I absolutely
hate JPG in all of my use-cases.
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https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=223062
I also wrote extensively about digitizing books back here (Post #8 might be most relevant, although I think the entire thread is a good read):
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=234146
and here (this discussed SVG Tables alongside all the other Table discussion):
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=240980
Side Bars... I don't deal with those too often, although way back in 2013 I handled them along them with a "grey box" along these lines:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...25&postcount=9
Having little floating boxes might work ok on a larger device (tablet or a sheet of paper), but on a smaller device like a cellphone, there is just not enough room for floats.
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Originally Posted by bentleymaniac
and my main hate: Why does Calibre ALWAYS make the css so messy?
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It tries to do its best with what it gets. Garbage In, Garbage Out.
I typically strip everything down and use tools to start from the bare bones formatting (Text + Italics + Bold), and work my way up from there (adding in blockquotes, fixing footnote, [...]). Toxaris's "ePUB Tools" are a fantastic tool for doing that:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=213372
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Originally Posted by bentleymaniac
yeah, I know this post is  but why does EVERY forum have to create their own different commands for markup/formatting (i.e. bold, italic, code, etc)?
They should just stick to html or inline css. It would make <i>so</i> (sorry, [ITALIC]so[/ITALIC] - whoops, still wrong so) much more sense. |
Seems like pretty standard BBCode to me. What forum software are you used to?
If you push the buttons a few times, I believe it is pretty easy to figure out different forum markup.