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Originally Posted by Hitch
THERE it is. I was sort of plowing my way toward this, but I thought it would be a KF7/KF8 thing; I don't have this mad depth of KFX expertise that @jhowell does, but I thought it would be something like this. I used to have these issues with the "send to kindle" and the faux WiFi-xfer functionality. Or, to be more accurate, I didn't, but our clients did, and it was a major source of aggro for me.
So, now--about percentages versus fixed-units. @DNSB--if he's serious about making MOBI files, he doesn't really have a choice--he has to use fallback coding that specifies the precise pixels, due to the KF7 devices that are still out there. If he doesn't, and uses percentages, that's ignored in the KF7, and his image can/will be blown up to the size of the screen, which sucketh when you have a small image. There's a thread--a very long, very tedious thread--somewhere here in the Sigil forum, in which slowsmile/William and I had a heated discussion about his plugin that creates the fallback coding for this very purpose. You (Gregg) can now ignore the heated part, but look at the info that his plugin provides--it does the heavy lifting for you.
@Gregg--you should be sizing your images primarily by the use of percentages, not pixels (for the KF8s) as that's more consistent in terms of look/feel. However, you do also need the fallback stuff for the KF7s. And honestly, speaking as a highly-paid perfesshnul (ha), only God knows why KFX is "fixing" the coding and changing the damn size. That one just makes my head hurt.
HOWEVER, bear in mind that what that means is that what you refer to as the "whispersynch" version is what other people are seeing--so break out the codebook, and write your media queries--you can use slowsmile's plugin's coding as a starting point.
HTH.
Hitch
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Thanks Hitch. Couldn't find the thread (was surprised though that you were arguing with someone.
) I did find this one though
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=288294 and I read it. It was a little scary at first, doing all that it does. I start with .odt and turn it into an .html so that's what I'd be starting with. I did see this in his Cleanup Options:
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Reformat ebook images using percentage screen values to help normalize smaller image sizes across all ereaders.
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But I didn't see anything about fallback stuff (specific pixel sizes) for the KF7.
Maybe you have a link for the thread I should look at?
btw I really like the % stuff the guys were sharing. But could they all be letting their images display improperly in KF7?