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Peter Ahlstrom · 12-30-2022, 01:16 PM

Thanks. I will reach out to my contact at Amazon (who used to work for Brandon’s agent) and ask about this. 82KB would be a painful limit. Not even as good as mobi’s old 127KB limit!

All of those full-page images are supposed to be 1600 pixels wide, and the first one (the exterior view of Urithiru) is a 766KB jpg. We are releasing a book through KDP on the 10th, so I may have to experiment with its Kindle version.

The Lost Metal Elendel map that I delivered is indeed a 1600x2493 gif, but the one I gave them is 803KB (801,973 bytes). I'm really curious how it got shrunk to 783KB! I already reduced the color table down to 8, and with the detail in the map I wasn't comfortable reducing it any more than that. The metadata is also stripped to the essentials. I've tried running flexiGIF, but on files of this resolution I never got more than halfway through one file in a day.

12-30-2022, 01:16 PM	#84
Peter Ahlstrom Connoisseur Posts: 80 Karma: 500000 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Utah Device: iPad	Thanks. I will reach out to my contact at Amazon (who used to work for Brandon’s agent) and ask about this. 82KB would be a painful limit. Not even as good as mobi’s old 127KB limit! All of those full-page images are supposed to be 1600 pixels wide, and the first one (the exterior view of Urithiru) is a 766KB jpg. We are releasing a book through KDP on the 10th, so I may have to experiment with its Kindle version. The Lost Metal Elendel map that I delivered is indeed a 1600x2493 gif, but the one I gave them is 803KB (801,973 bytes). I'm really curious how it got shrunk to 783KB! I already reduced the color table down to 8, and with the detail in the map I wasn't comfortable reducing it any more than that. The metadata is also stripped to the essentials. I've tried running flexiGIF, but on files of this resolution I never got more than halfway through one file in a day. Last edited by Peter Ahlstrom; 12-30-2022 at 08:01 PM.