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jhowell, this is for self-publishing on Amazon. It's my second book, sort of a sequel to one I wrote 10 years ago. The topic is proton therapy for prostate cancer. The first one is in paperback and Kindle format. This new one is ready to go in paperback (I have the proof copy-looks good), and I was hoping to simultaneously offer a Kindle edition. That hope is fading fast. I was targeting January (this month) for the release. Two days to go? Not likely.
For simplicity, and for better or worse, I am strictly using Amazon KDP. I am aware of the tradeoffs. Thank you for the suggestion to explore other forums. I think initially my issues seemed to be Calibre Editor ones, but I will explore other avenues, too.
As for limiting the width of images, here is one reason: At the end of some chapters I have (in print) boxed text succinctly summarizing the takeaway from the chapter. As a reader, I found it highly distracting to inevitably see some of these boxes split over two pages (digital version). I gave it a good try with page-break-inside: avoid, etc, but nothing worked. So as a hail Mary, I converted these boxes into jpg images to ensure they could not be split, and that works well enough, and they look fine. But on a wide screen like a tablet in landscape position, I want to prevent these boxed-text-images from spanning the entire width (basically, the whole screen), jumping out in huge format, like splashing water in your face. They need to be restricted to a natural width for that situation. Full width on a phone is fine. Maybe 60-80% on a Kindle looks good. But 100% on a wide tablet is a bad experience. There are other situations with different reasons to limit the image width, but these text-box images is the most concerning one.
I hope that clarifies my situation. Thank you again for your help.
Ron
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