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Old 05-31-2020, 09:44 AM   #11
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Similar, the actual problem was on the transparent areas.
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
Are you saving your PNGs in a strange way?

Are you saving as Indexed? (Or the very obscure: "Indexed with Alpha"?)

What image editor are you using?
Nope, nothing strange, nor indexed. And I'm using Photoshop.
Actually, I can't replicate the issue even using the original PNGs which were horridly rendered. I did uninstall and re-install ADE (same version), perhaps it was a software problem.
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
GIF images are 256 colors max.

"Indexed PNGs" cover that entire use-case (256 colors).

Normal PNGs (Color + Color/Alpha) then take on the entire RGB color range.

On top of that, PNGs compress so much better, because it uses more modern algorithms.
I know, I know. Similar but harder stronger faster.
I went for the GIFs because they rendered better than PNGs in ADE at the time (???).
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
If all else fails, just PNGs with white background (no Alpha).

Not ideal, yes. Potentially hideous on color backgrounds? Yes. Fully compatible? Yes! :P

And then you just save the transparent source for some future date (or a MobileRead-specific version where you don't have to care about sales).
Yep; after this exchange I just went with the transparent PNGs.
And thanks!
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Calibre/Sigil
By the way, I'm enjoying the use of both tools now, specially Sigil's Structure… option and its XHTML split.
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