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I appreciate your responding. I'll try to answer your questions as briefly as possible. I don't create my own coding. I am using Calibre to create an e-book in e-pub format for a friend. I use the reader that comes with Calibre. I also use the e-book reader that is a plug-in for Foxfire, just to check how another reader will display the book. I reduce the image files to 72ppi, and use either jpg or png formats. I use Gimp (for the most part) to edit the images I use. However, I used Image Magic to change the tifs to jpgs. Also had a friend try Photoshop (thinking it might handle the change from 4 color to 3 color better.)
I have created a number of books in e-pub format, using Calibre, and they all turn out more than fine. But this is the first one that has so many images.
In Calibre, when you are using their “caption” function, it creates a frame to hold the caption. The caption is then with the image, inside the frame. With a good image, you can make slight adjustments to the size of the frame and the image to get the amount to space you want between the two etc. When it words it is very nice. You can get the image with a caption to display just where you want it to, with the appearance you want. When I try to do this using a tif file, the size of the image does not seem to be what my Gimp says it should be. The frame comes out way too big for the image. If I have a clean jpg, I do not have this problem. I seems that even having been in a tif formate creates a faulty jpg. One that does not display at all, or does quirky things in relation to the frame.
So, unless, I am just doing something wrong, it would seem either that there is something special about how Calibre uses tif files, or that the files are getting corrupted when the are changed from tif to jpg.
I am a little over my head here, which is why I am here, really. Hope this answers your questions.
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