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Old 06-24-2016, 01:36 AM   #40
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Originally Posted by Notjohn View Post
Perhaps I should explain that I've decided to follow Mr Knopf and Mr Doubleday and Mr Penguin and use an image of the print title page in the e-book, to avoid its being split in the Look Inside and to force better design on it.
I do the same (but only for KF8 where I can use SVG; old readers just get text).

It might be worth pointing out that if you have a PDF of the print edition, you can create a PDF containing only a single page by using pdftk. For example, to get page 13 as a separate PDF, you might do:

Code:
pdftk book.pdf cat 13-13 output titlepage.pdf
And then you can trivially convert that to SVG using Inkscape. For example, on OS X:

Code:
/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/script --without-gui titlepage.pdf --export-plain-svg=titlepage.svg
You can also do --export-png=titlepage.png for a MOBI7 fallback, if you want one.
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