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Originally Posted by theducks
I remember that series, they sold well  (Yes, the Ducks sold books until 2000)
One of the thing the folk who bought (paper) books like that wanted, was the ability to make scaled copies (usually, bigger, but maintaining Aspect).
You might consider using a Word processor (for the text) and use Sigil / Calibre to place the images (  Put a place holder Tag into the text. Image 43 here) |
Yes! I found George Bain's book in the library back in 1988ish and borrowed it a lot until I found and bought a copy for myself. Then when it came out on Kindle I snapped that up too. It's good enough to own in all available formats
Old school methods were to draw it out yourself, or use tracing paper or a photocopier to manipulate the image to the size you wanted. Later similar books like the Dover Pictorial Art series had CD-ROMs and clipart in them. My book is intended similarly, a set of images for artists to use to make art. Which means the DPI needs to be high enough not to degrade when blown up.
Word processing and placeholders (anchors in HTML?) sound a good way to go. I'm thinking to keep it simple by not expecting wrapping around images - a block of text would be text only (no in-line images in text), and a block (page-width) of images would simply take a new line, so to speak. Not certain how to treat captions yet. My Kindle has a screen of only 600x800 so I'm thinking I should try to fit smaller images into blocks that size. With bigger images, I'll look at how the zoom works, whether it does it itself or if you have to specify a larger image for zoomed-size. Probably should keep to the same aspect ratio (multiples of 600x800) so that any scaling doesn't end up stretched or cropped.
