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politicorific · 03-17-2009, 05:38 PM

I recently purchased an ebook reader and want to convert a book to an ebook. The issue is that the book uses a lot of arcs, lines, arrows, and boxes incorporated into the text which have no ascii or unicode equivalents. Ocring this stuff is useless, although it does work for 60% of the regular print. Thankfully most of the material follows a set pattern and is purely black and white. However using word's drawing tool looks like a poor option.

So I'm considering using photoshop to create a template for most of these items, but I see several potential drawbacks: loss of zoom functionality, mismatched dpi/sizing issues, file size, rastered graphics issues, and overall trouble with placement in word.

Is there a guide for graphics/images in ebooks?

Should I just bite the bullet and go the photoshop route or can I somehow use vectered graphics tool like illustrator so the image is resizeable?

03-17-2009, 05:38 PM	#1
politicorific Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: prs-505	Converting non-ascii/non-unicode text - pictures the way to go? I recently purchased an ebook reader and want to convert a book to an ebook. The issue is that the book uses a lot of arcs, lines, arrows, and boxes incorporated into the text which have no ascii or unicode equivalents. Ocring this stuff is useless, although it does work for 60% of the regular print. Thankfully most of the material follows a set pattern and is purely black and white. However using word's drawing tool looks like a poor option. So I'm considering using photoshop to create a template for most of these items, but I see several potential drawbacks: loss of zoom functionality, mismatched dpi/sizing issues, file size, rastered graphics issues, and overall trouble with placement in word. Is there a guide for graphics/images in ebooks? Should I just bite the bullet and go the photoshop route or can I somehow use vectered graphics tool like illustrator so the image is resizeable? Last edited by politicorific; 03-17-2009 at 06:10 PM.