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MoReader92019 · 09-21-2019, 07:02 PM

Calenorn & DiapDealer,

Thanks for your info. I have nothing to do with the size of thumbnails. I must meet Smashwords requirements for images and these far exceed 600x400. It is Nook that deals with that as the case warrants. I use 5000 resolution put in by Gimp because my covers always look like crap, even just text files at default 72, and not so great at 5000 either. By crap, I mean resolution, not my primitive graphics. I have never met a graphics program that I like and lack tablets, pens and quality resources. I do not know why other peoples covers look great and mine never do whether with or without images. When I used OpenOffice as a source for epub, they would always lower my resolution to conform to 200 dpi print even though it is an ebook, ruining my files. When I turned to print, Kindle would always reject my images due to less than minimum 300 dpi. No matter what I did with changing the resolution in the print/print file of Writer, OpenOffice still sent Kindle 200 dpi. Now I use Word and now have a problem with xfering my OpenOffice styles. Office is worse than before after each upgrade. Why OpenOffice is screwing with what is basically an image matter, and not leaving dpi to the print function of my printer is their business. Microsoft seems to control images too as to what is passed along. My graphics always look bad. I have no control over this with the software that I have. It does not matter what I do in Gimp, it still fails. Because of small sizes of readers, I am limited to about 550 width for them to fit in the screen. That does not include the cover image which is bigger and conforms to the reader page as required as the sole image there. The trouble is I have more of a textbook subject. I now avoid graphics and use word pictures for the most part. My graphics are never able to give me the resolution to do this. I do not have good drawing or editing equipment or apps. They cost money and very little money comes in. My readers prefer free stuff, and frankly so do I. Thousands of downloads come to just about nothing. I have also been hacked a lot and must consider tampering of apps at all levels. Well, try and prove it. Slow torture by degraded performance is much more irritating than just a crash. Who knows? Equipment breaks down, intermittent disruption, decaying drives, hackers too clever for my defenses.

I will reduce the size of my cover images on my own files to see if Nook fits them in then, if that is the problem. This is easy enough in html, from the source 2000x3000.

My Nook has taken some falls too and may not be working quite right.

As for object code, I am simply saying that all computers compile programs whether in the old fashion way or on the fly. Those files you are talking about are just a bunch of binary bits and bytes. That is how computers work. If these binary bits and bytes get into a file cross-eyed, corrupted, then you need a debugger to detect them, remove or alter them, and to know where to look.

Thanks for your time. Hope you got something out of it too. I think the matter is at an end. I will deal with things as they are and come. There is always letting Smashwords deal with this, and just get my Word styles to where they need to be. Most of my problems on that score were settled years ago. But I wanted to go direct epub to learn the ins and outs. That takes time. So long.

09-21-2019, 07:02 PM	#22
MoReader92019 Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2019 Device: Nook BNRV500	Calenorn & DiapDealer, Thanks for your info. I have nothing to do with the size of thumbnails. I must meet Smashwords requirements for images and these far exceed 600x400. It is Nook that deals with that as the case warrants. I use 5000 resolution put in by Gimp because my covers always look like crap, even just text files at default 72, and not so great at 5000 either. By crap, I mean resolution, not my primitive graphics. I have never met a graphics program that I like and lack tablets, pens and quality resources. I do not know why other peoples covers look great and mine never do whether with or without images. When I used OpenOffice as a source for epub, they would always lower my resolution to conform to 200 dpi print even though it is an ebook, ruining my files. When I turned to print, Kindle would always reject my images due to less than minimum 300 dpi. No matter what I did with changing the resolution in the print/print file of Writer, OpenOffice still sent Kindle 200 dpi. Now I use Word and now have a problem with xfering my OpenOffice styles. Office is worse than before after each upgrade. Why OpenOffice is screwing with what is basically an image matter, and not leaving dpi to the print function of my printer is their business. Microsoft seems to control images too as to what is passed along. My graphics always look bad. I have no control over this with the software that I have. It does not matter what I do in Gimp, it still fails. Because of small sizes of readers, I am limited to about 550 width for them to fit in the screen. That does not include the cover image which is bigger and conforms to the reader page as required as the sole image there. The trouble is I have more of a textbook subject. I now avoid graphics and use word pictures for the most part. My graphics are never able to give me the resolution to do this. I do not have good drawing or editing equipment or apps. They cost money and very little money comes in. My readers prefer free stuff, and frankly so do I. Thousands of downloads come to just about nothing. I have also been hacked a lot and must consider tampering of apps at all levels. Well, try and prove it. Slow torture by degraded performance is much more irritating than just a crash. Who knows? Equipment breaks down, intermittent disruption, decaying drives, hackers too clever for my defenses. I will reduce the size of my cover images on my own files to see if Nook fits them in then, if that is the problem. This is easy enough in html, from the source 2000x3000. My Nook has taken some falls too and may not be working quite right. As for object code, I am simply saying that all computers compile programs whether in the old fashion way or on the fly. Those files you are talking about are just a bunch of binary bits and bytes. That is how computers work. If these binary bits and bytes get into a file cross-eyed, corrupted, then you need a debugger to detect them, remove or alter them, and to know where to look. Thanks for your time. Hope you got something out of it too. I think the matter is at an end. I will deal with things as they are and come. There is always letting Smashwords deal with this, and just get my Word styles to where they need to be. Most of my problems on that score were settled years ago. But I wanted to go direct epub to learn the ins and outs. That takes time. So long.