achieving landscape orientation ePub

poms123 · 05-19-2016, 01:08 PM

Hello - not a conversion problem, exactly, but I've been trying to convert an illustrated children's book in landscape orientation to ePub format suitable for a Kobo device. Input format is .cbz (or rather, a .zip that gets read as a .cbz file), output is ePub with a Kobo profile. The file created is perfectly fine, but in portrait orientation rather than landscape. I've converted with both the wide and landscape options in the input section selected, but it hasn't done quite what I thought it might. Just wondering if there is a way to convert the file while maintaining the landscape orientation? Or if perhaps a different input format might be better. I'm not intimately familiar with how all of this works, so apologies if the answer is obvious and I've just missed it.

Thanks very much!

kovidgoyal · 05-19-2016, 11:23 PM

Are you saying that the images in the output are rotated from those in the input? Rotation of images only happens if the width of the image is grater than the height and you set the landscape option. As for wide, all it does is use height as width and vice versa when scaling the image to fit the screen.

poms123 · 05-20-2016, 12:31 AM

Ah, I see! I'll give it a shot without landscape selected. Thank you very much!

05-19-2016, 01:08 PM	#1
poms123 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2016 Device: none	achieving landscape orientation ePub Hello - not a conversion problem, exactly, but I've been trying to convert an illustrated children's book in landscape orientation to ePub format suitable for a Kobo device. Input format is .cbz (or rather, a .zip that gets read as a .cbz file), output is ePub with a Kobo profile. The file created is perfectly fine, but in portrait orientation rather than landscape. I've converted with both the wide and landscape options in the input section selected, but it hasn't done quite what I thought it might. Just wondering if there is a way to convert the file while maintaining the landscape orientation? Or if perhaps a different input format might be better. I'm not intimately familiar with how all of this works, so apologies if the answer is obvious and I've just missed it. Thanks very much!

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05-19-2016, 11:23 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,319 Karma: 27111242 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Are you saying that the images in the output are rotated from those in the input? Rotation of images only happens if the width of the image is grater than the height and you set the landscape option. As for wide, all it does is use height as width and vice versa when scaling the image to fit the screen.

05-20-2016, 12:31 AM	#3
poms123 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2016 Device: none	Ah, I see! I'll give it a shot without landscape selected. Thank you very much!

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