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Originally Posted by DigitalPencil
Thank you all for the kind and helpful replies.
I'll give them a try. Thanks.
Most publishing platforms, that I found, use ePub or Mobi(Kindle), so I considered going directly with those options.
Although PDF, docxs etc can also be used, most publishing platforms eventually convert them to ePub/Mobi.
My personal experience with this converting process(done by myself), resulted with loss of images' quality(I tried many methods and programs), so I now consider anything that will create ePub directly.
Concerning the above, are they any alternatives to ePub/mobi, for pictures-based books(fixed-layout) creation (not necessarily comics), that are commonly used within ebooks publishing platforms?
Again, thank you for the help.
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If you are talking about publishing the book commercially, then, no, you are really stuck with ePUB/MOBI. Sure, you can publish a PDF here and there, but not anywhere that actually makes money. You can use CBZ or one of the comic-book formats, but again--those are useless for selling books, unless they are, in fact, comic books.
There are a bunch of other "formatting" methods, like Snapfish and Blurb, but again, you are then limited to their sales platforms, which is...well, suffice to say, I have yet to find anyone that's made any real sales, other than to family, off of either.
If you are trying to make the equivalent of a "coffee table" book, then a) you need to learn how to make separate chapters/files in HTML, in Sigil, and b) you'll need to figure out how to put the images in the file in such a way that you're happy with the quality of the outcome. We do this all the time. It's not impossible to do, but it's certainly impossible to do if you don't know how to work with the medium.
Creating ePUB directly WILL, absolutely, give you a lot more control over what you're doing. Almost every Word program out there, used by normal people, has the setting "compress images automatically upon saving," so you're likely fighting yourself. There's also NO real way for PDF to be "converted" into an ebook format, so there are a number of steps--involving scanning and OCR--so of course, your images are being screwed up.
It's unfortunate that you'll have to create the pages one at a time, but you could make one, dupe it and then import the images, at one go, and work your way through them, simply editing the image name in the image tag in the HTML Tedious, but not undoable by any means. In fact, it's a pretty simple task, and doable for someone new to the medium.
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