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Old 01-07-2021, 09:13 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
I don't see an attached image.

But what you want won't be possible and/or will break across many actual ereaders.
Yup. Believe me, we try this once every 6 months, trying to see if we can make ti work. Ixnay, no, zip, zein, zilch, no way.

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What may be possible is making the entire "Chapter + Number + Background Image" an image, but I recommend strongly against that. (See Note below.)
I don't, really. If you get cute about it, you can make the entire top of your page, full-width, left-to-right, the image and that works mostly. Is it ideal, when someone opens said book on a SMALL smartphone? No, but it works, nonetheless. I would strongly recommend, though, that if the two can be extracted from each other--the number and the image--that you do so and stack them. That's my best recommendation.

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BTW, my "easiest" way to do this is to produce the PDF, export it at press-quality, then extract the chapter pages, then export those to JPG or PNG @300-600DPI, and then crop them all the same. Get a pixel measurement or inches, whatever works for you, from the top of the page to the bottom of the chapter graphic and then crop every single one identically. Then slap that sucker in the code, stacking at the upper edge of the first "page" of the chapter (the top of the chapter's html file, IOW, right?) and that works okay. Is it FANtastic? No, but it works okay 99% of the time. If you just GOTTA have the original chapter head layout.



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Completely ignore the ebooks.stackexchange answer. There's absolutely no way that can work on actual devices.
Amen. Once again, eBook formatting advice given to someone from someone else who hasn't got a single freaking clue about how either ePUB or MOBI work.

I would add that I don't feel that you have to work from Word or a word-processing file to make ebooks. Now..is it far easier? Yes, but if you are religious with your INDD file, and always use styles and do NOT use overrides, except very, very VERY sparingly, you can export a reflowable ePUB and then dive into the code (HTML/CSS) and clean it up. It's not undoable and it's not "horrible," as long as you're clean and tidy and good about your INDD usage. And I don't cast blame at you for using CS6, either.

As always, offered FWIW.


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