What do you use Sigil for?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

This is idiocy on a level that doesn't even exist yet.

The only way I can think of is that this happens when the EPUB is auto-generated from a file that actually includes the image multiple times, such as a Word-document.

I've seen this in eBooks not made (well, not noticeably) by Word.

[Geralt]

Nothing. It just sits on my desktop and stares at me with those big puppy eyes.

[user_none]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

By the way, now that we're talking about Sigil: what engine does it use to render the EPUBs?

WebKit.

Originally Posted by Katsunami

Some Adobe products in the past used Presto (Opera's engine), so maybe this is also true for ADE.

Apple uses WebKit; they were the ones who started the project as a fork of KDE's engine. I believe ADE wrote their own engine.

[caleb72]

I use Sigil sometimes to break up Omnibus editions I've purchased into individual volumes.

Sometimes, if I want to dump website stories or articles into my eReader, I'll use Sigil as a halfway point to tidy things up for the auto-generated epub and maybe even put on a cover if I've feeling particularly anal.

[Ripplinger]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

How do you do this? Penguin cozy mysteries suffer the problem a lot.

JSWolf explained it exactly as I do it. You can also just remove the fancy border from all chapters too if you feel it detracts from the book when viewed on an ereader at all. That might be simpler to do, but I usually try to keep formatting as close to the original as possible.

Originally Posted by Katsunami

This is idiocy on a level that doesn't even exist yet.

The only way I can think of is that this happens when the EPUB is auto-generated from a file that actually includes the image multiple times, such as a Word-document.

I see this quite often in ebooks lately, and I agree, it is idiocy, especially when there's between 35-50 chapters and there's a separate image for each of the chapters, even though they're identical. The sizes are slightly different by a few pixels and fractions of kb, so I've no doubt it's done by some automated process where the push is to crank out as many books as possible quickly, even if bloated to over 50% size increase (or more, I've compressed images where the new ones are less than 12% of the original size in the book).

I've got some books over 2MBs where once the duplicate images are deleted and I compress the images that are left brings the book down to around 500kb. That's a huge difference for one file, especially when there's absolutely no reason for it.

[GrannyGrump]

I use it (in combination with Notepad++ and a bunch of Autohotkey scripts) to convert plain-text Public Domain transcripts to formatted ePubs.

Love that preview window for making adjustments to CSS!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

How do you do this? Penguin cozy mysteries suffer the problem a lot.

I do the Reverse order of what JS does.

Use Reports to see thumbnails of the images (or explode the EPUB, and print a 'Proof sheet' from Windows)

Pick the best one, Use S&R to change each of the others to the chosen one.

Then use 'delete unused images'
Check the report again to see if you missed any

[Terisa de morgan]

Thank you, I'll try

[crich70]

Originally Posted by Geralt

Nothing. It just sits on my desktop and stares at me with those big puppy eyes.

Good one.