Revolutionary code? Need feedback

[RbnJrg]

Originally Posted by jhowell

KFX does support a simple image wrapper of the sort described in this post. I have seen code like that used in several professionally published ebooks. Your example book will convert to KFX if you remove the caption from the SVG.

Yes, a wrapper with a simple image inside is supported by KFX. But with a image and not to be able to add a caption is, is...

It is true, KFX does not support SVG text. I don't know of a surefire way to have captions that will display with the user's selected font and always be displayed on the same page as an image.

With the current state of KFX, the only way is to write the caption on the picture with a image proccessor. Sad need

My point is that there is no single best option. There is a tradeoff that a Kindle ebook publisher will need to make between using the full capabilities of SVG and having the features of KFX available to the reader.

I agree with that.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by RbnJrg

Well, well, well. All this time you were using a css template (blitz_C1C4.css) with very important definitions that were affecting the code you wrote. When that file is not included (or not linked to the .xhtml file) then the things doesn't work. And right now, with your epub, I realize about that file. What happens if you don't include blitz_C1C4.css? The code doesn't work with epub2. So, I had to do a bit of research to find all the important code included in blitz_C1C4.css that affect the svg wrapper. I attach two new epubs, one epub2 and one epub3 with the SAME CODE. And both work fine under ADE and Sigil. It's really newfangled this way of including images inside a svg wrapper found by Momoha. If a moderator is reading this thread, I think s/he should include all this info in the Wiki of the site. Only are used percentages and for all kind of images, no matter the size of them. So, for any .jpg, .png, .gif, whatever format, the new code would be:

Regards
Rubén

Anyone can add pages and edit pages in the wiki. The wiki stuff is not copyrighted (covered under creative commons) but posts may be. It is better that you guys add it.

Dale

[JSWolf]

The only way to make sure the caption stays with the image is to make the caption part of the image at the bottom of the image. Otherwise, there is no way to know what font & font size will be used. I could up the font size enough where the caption would not stay on the same page or not properly display. But if the caption is part of the image, it will always display.

[momoha]

This code isn’t a solution for the whole figure-caption problem. I made this code for two main reasons:

1. It makes us able to place an image that won’t exceed neither the height nor width of the page, yet keep it’s ratio, and will be centred in the page.
2. It makes us able to make the image respect a certain % of the height of the page.

The code is advantageous from others because:
1. Doesn’t require to enter dimensions in pixel
2. Seems to be well supported (works on ADE, Kobo, Google Books, iBooks)

The code was made for ePub3, but Ruben saw the SVG code was also supported on ePub2.

[momoha]

Originally Posted by RbnJrg

What resellers Momoha? Any name? Because svg and svg wrappers have been being used for years, is not something new. The only issue with your code is the caption that not always will be together with the picture. I can handle that. But the image is well displayed and that is the important.

Nope I don’t know which ones, I just quoted Jiminy Panoz. We didn’t hear any comment from our clients.