[LostOnTheLine]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

That is not correct - at all. You need to re read what was said. You enter the image dimensions so that the svg wrapper will properly display the image - with the correct aspect ratio - without clipping, squishing, or stretching the image - regardless of the resolution or orientation of the display.

Again, I've heard that, over & over & over, but I'm talking about a completely Different type of scaling, as I've made clear many times. I've read what all of you have said, but you seem to be not reading what I say at all.
Let me try to explain it with an example.

Say I formatted the eBook with the SVG Wrapper.
Now say, at a later date I decide I want to make a version with smaller images because it's for a device that has a smaller screen.
So I unzip the ePub & shrink all the images, or worse, I rotate an image. Then I rezip the ePub & load it onto the device.
The SVG Wrapper now looks for the image insert1.jpg, it finds it.
Now it goes to display the 1034x1450 image but finds an 800x1122 image instead.
What happens?
Now say it goes to display the 2067x1450 image, but that image is now 1450x2067...
Is it not going to show the image at all?
Will the image be shown half-sized because it's trying to make the end edge sit at pixel 1034 when there are only 800 pixels in the image?
Will the flipped image be squished to fit the inverted dimensions?
That's what I was saying nobody has addressed.

I batch convert images from 20 books all at once, it takes about 5 minutes to set up & I walk away, when I come back I just rezip the books & they're done.
If every image was SVG I'd instead HAVE to edit each book individually, edit each image within the Sigil editor or do a batch convert & then fix the Wrapper on each image manually.

You keep talking about this as though the method used, in just about every eBook I've bought, has nothing but problems & this method has no problems & solves everything. But this thread is not even about what the best way is, it's about how to AUTOMATE it. Which is the biggest problem with the SVG Wrapper, it can't really be automated in any way.

Originally Posted by Turtle91

Trying to explain why the technique you consider ‘perfect’ doesn’t actually work is very difficult when you don’t understand the CSS

When did I ever say they were perfect?...
Hint: I didn't... Ever... Nothing even close to that...

I'm not blindly following anything. The technique used works. I listed the devices I use those books on & they all work WITHOUT the issues you are saying they have.

To me you are telling me that the lets say "Jake On The Cube" hamburger I am currently eating, that I have eaten hundreds of times before & thousands of other people also eat regularly without issues, tastes like soap & will be guaranteed to make me sick if I eat it...
But I'm currently eating it & am not sick & it doesn't taste like soap...
Sure there have been people who have gotten sick after eating them & maybe somewhere there have been ones that have tasted like soap, but those are not because they are from Jake On The Cube, it's because the particular store that made them did something wrong or perhaps the user who got sick ate the burger without washing their hands or set it down on a dirty counter.
The fact is that Jake On The Cube is an international franchise that sells Burgers to millions of people every day.
If they had the problems that you are insisting every burger they make has, people would not be buying them, & as someone who eats them I have never gotten sick from eating them & never had one taste like soap.
You are expecting me to believe your words & the words of a few other people I don't really know over my own experiences.
Are Jake's Burgers the best burgers that could ever be made?
No, of course not, but they are reasonably good, they are quick, & cheap, & that's all I'm looking for.
If you had a suggestion for another fast food place that had a similar price & was a similar distance away, & was better I'd most likely go there instead.
But instead you're suggesting that instead I make that hamburger myself, grill it on a good quality grill, using the choice cuts of meat. Or that I go to a special restaurant that is half an hour drive away.
Both those things are potentially good ideas, but they don't replace the fast food I can grab on my way to work & again on a lunch break if I feel like it, & if I'm driving across country & am hungry I can find wherever I go. What I'm looking for, specifically, is something that can be done in an automation. Unless you are sharing a way to automate an SVG image replacement it will never be something I can even consider. Plain & simple.

Originally Posted by Turtle91

Yes…again my assumption was that you were familiar with find/replace/regex operations and had added the ‘insert’ as a flag and that you did not want to keep the flag after the replace (see my first example).

How in the world would that work? if I'm searching for an image with the word "insert" in the name why would I want to remove the word "insert" from the filename? I thought it was just an oversite, but if it was intentional I'm even more confused. The point was to add the splits before & after the image that contains the word "insert" removing part of the name of the image will only make the page call a file that doesn't exist.

Originally Posted by DNSB

And you don't seem to realize that some of people offering the advice that you don't want to take are professionals in the ebook field.

My opinion as someone who has read and formatted quite a few ebooks over the years is that most professional ebooks are not well formatted.

I'm not looking to make the best formatted eBook of all time. & I do realize that anyone who comments has more knowledge & experience than I do. But you keep focusing on the wrong things. I simply asked for ways that I could automate a process that I will be repeating many times. The only people who will be reading these are myself, my family members & maybe a roommate at some point, or a friend. I don't have any intention of selling them or entering them in the State Fair "best eBook" competition. I simply want a simple, automatable way to remove some problems & not have to spend a lot of time editing the books. I mean, the whole thread is about how to save time & automate it. If I wanted to spend the time on it that doing the SVG Wrapper takes I never would have made the post to begin with, because I could just manually add the page breaks quicker than taking the time to Wrap everything in a CVS Reciept, I mean SVG Wrapper.