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If I have still been unclear, I think it's time for me to give up. And, granted it has nothing to do with this oddity, I did see some behavior from your plugin that I thought might be buggy. It's described in the last paragraph of post #71: Quote:
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I never said that. And it's not what I meant, nor what I ever meant. I simply meant what I thought I said--that using %, to cause an image to display AT A SPECIFIC SIZE, would not work. I never meant that using %, either in the CSS or inline, would somehow cause the image to not show up at all. n.b.: I just went over the prior thread, in which there was a heated discussion about this, and we NEVER said this. We stated, repeatedly, that KF7 will ignore any CSS using %, and the resulting image would just display as if no size were set, at all. Nobody ever said that the images would simply disappear as if they didn't exist. Quote:
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Nonetheless, the plugin works. The KF7 coding--the coding done correctly, with its own line of code, using Hidden, etc., works fine. The one-line coding, which we all know has nothing to do with the plugin, trying to do both KF7 and KF8, doesn't work, because the image displays incorrectly. Are we all on the same page now? Hitch |
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OMG...Why are people still talking about my plugin and dual formatting?
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Hitch...All I'm really doing is passing on some observations about KF7 formatting oddities to you because I know that you like hearing about Kindle problems/oddities. I've done this deliberately because you were generous enough to fully test my new plugin for me. But I never thought that this discussion would turn into such a long discussion and create so much confusion. I hope that what I've been saying is clearer now. To be honest with you, I really don't care that much about this oddity that I'm reporting. I'm just happy that the plugin works OK... |
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Albert who still says, pace @Hitch, KF7 delenda est. Last edited by st_albert; 08-16-2017 at 08:57 PM. Reason: details |
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I don't think you read my post. My observations have NOTHING to do with your plugin. The image from your test2.ePUB, that you think is showing correctly, isn't. Period. It's not remotely 50% of the screen. I discussed, in pixel-detail, the white space on the left side of the image, too. I used YOUR coding, inline. I tested YOUR ePUB. It's not displaying correctly in KF7. That's it, William. It has nothing to do with the plugin. ETA: Please go back, William, and read my post 72: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...8&postcount=72 . The first paragraph of my response talks about the plugin--but the rest is ALL about nothing but KF7 and how the images display. View the KF7 image, of which I've taken a screenshot, in that post. Not even you can assert that that image is remotely 400+ pixels wide, which is what it would have to be, if it were obeying the instruction, the inline instruction, that you're saying works. It doesn't. It's not an anomaly. You're seeing something incorrectly. Hitch Last edited by Hitch; 08-16-2017 at 10:10 PM. Reason: Added further detail for William. |
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08-16-2017, 09:44 PM | #81 |
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st_albert...Because the plugin calculates the image size to a base fixed width size I'm afraid that a ballpark or average image size can only be expected from the calculation I used in the plugin which is shown below:
Image-width-inpixels/630 x 100 And because the base screen width is 630px -- a fixed value -- that also means there will always be variance because the widths from all readers will always vary a little from that 630 base width value.. So this plugin certainly is not perfect. But it will still save you alot of time even if you have to adjust the the individual % widths to your own liking. That's surely quicker than having to manually dual format every single image in your epub which, as Hitch has said, is a long drudge job if you have to dual format 200 images in your epub. In the plugin there is also an option that allows you to vary the base width value. If you enter a BWV that is larger than the default all the images in your ebook will decrease in size. If you increase it all your ebook images will decrease in size. Best I could I'm afraid. Last edited by slowsmile; 08-16-2017 at 10:43 PM. |
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@Hitch...Well we could go round in circles like this for days.
Since it's impossible to do an accurate measurement of the KF7 displays for KP and KP3, I've been wondering how you measured the white image canvass widths. Both the old KP and the newer KP3 have no Night mode on their KF7 displays. So how did you measure the white canvass background width of the image? And the KP3 can now display KF7 displays with it's new "Kindle E-reader" option for KF7 displays. Did you know that? There is no night mode on that KP3 either for the "Kindle E-reader" display. And its probably the case that there is no Night mode in the eInk hardware version either. Here's how I did it and got one of my results -- and yes this is an approximate result. The eInk and Fire HDX displays on the old KP app have approximately the same screen width on KP. So, if both screen display widths are the same then both the displayed images -- on the Fire HDX and the eInk displays -- should display at the same width size. This was indeed the case when I checked. Both the image on the FireHDX(KF8) display and the eInk diplays were approximately the same when I used my Test epub image. And I did look at the images you posted in your post(#72). Here, for comparison, are my images from the same epub test file which are taken from the old KP displays. They also appear to be very different from your thumbnails. . Last edited by slowsmile; 08-17-2017 at 08:22 AM. |
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@Hitch....And here are my images from the same test epub for the KP3 "Tablet"(KF8) and "Kindle E-reader"(KF7) displays.
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@Hitch...And if you want my honest opinion, I have never really trusted the text or image displays from the older KP app. But I do trust these displays in the KP3 app. Reasons? The old KP app hasn't been updated in a donkey's age whereas the newer KP3 app has already been updated 6 or 7 times this year. So KP3 is the more reliable app because it is being properly maintained with regular updates whereas the older KP app has not been properly maintained because updates are rare.
Now over to the KP3 displays that I trust. If you click on each of my KP3 images above in turn(or download them for proper image display)-- first the Tablet-KF8-KP3.jpg and then the KindleReader-eInk-KP3.jpg -- then enlarge and compare them you will also note that the image sizes of both versions is exactly the same. And since, in this test, both screen widths and both image widths are the same size -- the screen width does not change for each test on KP3 -- then I would really expect the two image displays to be the exactly same size which was the case in my testing. Which must also ultimately prove that this styling(inline styling using % dimensions) works just fine on both KF7 and KF8 devices. If the styling wasn't functioning correctly in the KF7 version then the KF7/KF8 image displays would not be the same size. Right? But they are the same size... It's also plain to see that you only tested the epub on the old KP app. And you obviously haven't yet tested that epub on the newer KP3 app. I've now shown you that the KF8 and KF7 displays on the KP3 app are the same size(because both screen widths and both images are exactly the same size) on my tests which was the expected result. This directly conflicts with your own test results on the old KP app(which I have never really trusted). You could of course actually try loading the mobi version of the test epub into your old eInk device and have a look. But, unfortunately, there is no way that I can see how you could accurately measure the image width(ie by measuring the larger but invisible white canvass background) on your device accurately. Over to you. Last edited by slowsmile; 08-17-2017 at 09:11 AM. |
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And THAT's what you're basing this one? I have other news for you: the "Kindle eReader" emulation, on the KP3, that you are placing all this faith in, as a "good" emulation of a KF7? It's not a KF7 emulation AT ALL. Not one iota. It's intended to be emulating the PPW/Oasis/Voyage devices, WHICH ARE KF8. I literally cannot believe that this entire discussion, this entire disagreement, is based on this totally incorrect misapprehension of yours. I'm NOT going to sit here and try to convince you of this--email Amazon. Go right ahead. I cannot BELIEVE that I've wasted all this time, because you made a totally incorrect assumption about what is what in KP3. Email them, and waste your and their time, since they made this POS app. I've wated enough of mine on this. There IS no KF7 emulation on the KP3. Not at all. Didn't you notice, William, that the "Kindle e-reader" emulation, on KP3, has FONTS? Which, we all KNOW, are not available on KF7? What, you saw that and decided it was KF7, any-damned-way? Jesus, what a freaking waste of our time. And no--I'm not going to sit here and take screenshots off devices, just to prove it to you. I've already sat here, done all this "testing," took screenshots, etc., because you made an assumption, that not only was totally wrong, but was completely and totally counterindicated, if you had JUST LOOKED AT THE OPTIONS ON THE EMULATION. Like FONTS!!! You want to be a programmer? Around Kindle devices? Then bloody BUY ONE. This is an absurd, annoying, infuriating waste of my time. FFS! I'm now officially and totally DONE with this discussion. UNFREAKINGBELIEVABLE!!! Hitch |
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@Hitch...You are right about what you say. My sincerest apologies for that mistake.
And further concerning your wild and unnecessary blast from above, I am also quite relieved about your decision to leave this discussion and will happily comply. And yes, I agree with you, this discussion -- primarily about whether an ebook using inline styling with percentage dimensions displays correctly on KF7s -- is going absolutely nowhere... But if anyone would like to discuss the new plugin(the original purpose of this thread) -- I would be quite happy to discuss that. Last edited by slowsmile; 08-17-2017 at 08:36 PM. |
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What the hell is wrong with you? The Paperwhite, Voyage and Oasis are ALL KF8 readers. NOT KF7. I give up. Go ASK AMAZON. (I'll save you some time. I linked the TECH SPECS, from all three, below, genius.) FFS. This is hopeless. ETA: I'm wrong "again?" I am? Have you forgotten that not a week ago, Diap told you that YOU were wrong about KF7 and CSS? Not me? I haven't been wrong, at all. YOU are WRONG here, William. The eInks that you are blathering on about are KF8 devices. Not KF7. And for the LAST goddamn time, if you don't believe me, ask Amazon. Hell, for that matter, ask anyone else HERE, because they ALL know that they're KF7. No wonder you're so screwed up about CSS, etc. Jesus. Here, genius: since you REFUSE to believe me, maybe you'll believe these guys. AFTER all, they're MEN: http://epubsecrets.com/media-queries...le-devices.php . Scroll down. See PAPERWHITE? This is the most unfreakingbelievable "argument" I've ever been in. UNFREAKINGBELIEVABLE. It's like trying to have a discussion with a goddamn Holocaust denier. "Oh, see, this list of Kf8 devices PROVES that you're wrong, Hitch!" How about, the FACT that those devices SHOW FONTS PROVES YOU'RE WRONG, WILLIAM!!!???? I am absolutely gobsmacked at how freaking stupid this is. Wasted everybody's time on this, because he doesn't know what devices support WHICH freaking format. UNF*CKINGBELIEVABLE! From AMAZON's OWN WEBPAGES: Scroll down, here, under "Technical Details" for the Paperwhite: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OQVZDJM...s_eink_mt#tech and read, under "Content Formats Supported:" Quote:
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I was just about to jump in here pointing out slowsmile's error...but he apparently saw it and deleted the majority of his post.
So back to the original (plugin) question - and in conclusion (I think) - KF7 % for image width = bad, and putting a percentage for the width (inline or not) that is supposedly calculated for the perfect screen width is useless as it doesn't work. Just put the pixel width/height if it is smaller than the screen. KF8 % for image width = good, and you certainly don't need to put said percentages as an inline style for KF8 (leave them in the CSS), and said percentages certainly don't need to be calculated to match a specific screen width - you just set 80% when you mean 80%. So, if the calculated percentage doesn't work on KF7, and you don't need a calculated % for KF8, then what exactly does this plugin DO for those who use Sigil to build ePubs? |
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@Turtle91...Thanks for your question and its a good question(though off-topic). In my discussions with Hitch I was actually trying to determine whether using inline styling with % dimensions would actually work on KF7 devices. I asked this question because the eInk displays on the older KP app showed that the test image image(a hawk) displayed correctly as far as I was concerned. That was what our discussion was really all about.
And you needn't worry about how my plugin works because my plugin adds media queries in the accepted way and also dual formats all the images in the ebook for KF7(in pixels) and KF8(as a %) devices. Hitch has also said that the plugin, which she has tested, works fine. Just to also add that Hitch requested this plugin -- she's a professional formatter -- so you should perhaps just accept that this is the proper way to format images for KF7 and KF8 devices in an epub. If you want to test the new plugin(which hasn't been released yet) just to check and test it for yourself then the download is here on this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...9&postcount=33 Also, for more info on its features -- you should read the README file that is inside the downloaded plugin zip file. I also note that Hitch is still blasting -- even after I apologized...Well, well... Last edited by slowsmile; 08-17-2017 at 09:27 PM. |
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@Hitch...I changed that post because I was wrong about the KP3 app displays. I also apologized to you for that mistake. Read it again. This is my last to you on this thread...
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