Bookdesigner - Centering Title Author...

davers · 01-10-2009, 08:05 AM

Hey everyone! I've been using Bookdesigner to format a bunch of Gutenburg books! Let me first say what a cool program! I'm getting pretty fast at setting up a book and converting it to .lrf!! My question is, does anyone know how to center the Title, author, and their picture? Centered on the page top and bottom? When you change the text to either "Book Author" or "Book Title", it automatically centers the text left to right. I can't however seem to figure out how to center the text top to bottom! Any hints or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!

Dave

Andybaby · 01-10-2009, 08:45 AM

hmmm, I never Saw a way to get that effect.

but, You could Always Create an Image file the Size of the Reader, and Use that as your Title Page. Include any information you want on the Image, and then drag and drop it into book designer

HarryT · 01-11-2009, 04:12 AM

You can centre it for a particular text size by adding in the appropriate number of blank lines. The trouble is, though, that if the user changes the text size, it's not going to be centred any more.

The concept of "pages" (and hence vertical centering) doesn't really fit in terribly well with eBooks.

Andybaby · 01-11-2009, 04:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

You can centre it for a particular text size by adding in the appropriate number of blank lines. The trouble is, though, that if the user changes the text size, it's not going to be centred any more.

The concept of "pages" (and hence vertical centering) doesn't really fit in terribly well with eBooks.

Hence the Idea Of an Image because that would stay the same no matter what font size is set.

davers · 01-11-2009, 12:32 PM

That sounds like a good idea...taking say...a screen shot of my title page and cropping it down to fit on one page...

Hmm..I'll have to play around with that and see if I can get it to work.

Thanks!

Dave

Patricia · 01-11-2009, 04:58 PM

Resize or crop to 800 by 600 pixels. This is the size of a Sony or Cybook screen.

HarryT · 01-12-2009, 07:03 AM

That's a very clever idea!

wallcraft · 01-12-2009, 04:21 PM

FeedBooks does something like this for ePub, using padding-top: in its title.css. Download any FeedBooks ePub and unzip it to see how it is done. However, this may not be possible in Book Designer. Alternatively, Adobe in its EPUB Best Practices Guide suggests using SVG graphics to build the cover page, including the title and author text. This definitely isn't possible in Book Designer.

If you do build an ePub cover page, Calibre's epub-meta command has a --get-cover option which extracts the 1st page of the ePub as a 600x800 JPG image. This would be one way to get a cover image for non-ePub versions.

01-10-2009, 08:05 AM	#1
davers Connoisseur Posts: 51 Karma: 6562 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: Sony Dark Blue 505	Bookdesigner - Centering Title Author... Hey everyone! I've been using Bookdesigner to format a bunch of Gutenburg books! Let me first say what a cool program! I'm getting pretty fast at setting up a book and converting it to .lrf!! My question is, does anyone know how to center the Title, author, and their picture? Centered on the page top and bottom? When you change the text to either "Book Author" or "Book Title", it automatically centers the text left to right. I can't however seem to figure out how to center the text top to bottom! Any hints or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks! Dave

Thread Tools	Search this Thread
Show Printable Version Email this Page	Search this Thread: Advanced Search

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Changing from Title-Author to Author - Title	Amalthia	Calibre	17	01-22-2017 11:20 PM
Title and author on Kindle DX	barth90	Calibre	0	05-17-2010 05:35 PM
Sort by author AND title	bookends	Calibre	2	05-09-2010 01:55 PM
Using Bookdesigner...Center title up and down	davers	LRF	5	04-24-2009 09:53 AM
how to embed title and author	gteague	Amazon Kindle	3	11-26-2007 09:45 AM

01-10-2009, 08:45 AM	#2
Andybaby Wizard Posts: 1,279 Karma: 1002683 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: New York Device: PRS-700	hmmm, I never Saw a way to get that effect. but, You could Always Create an Image file the Size of the Reader, and Use that as your Title Page. Include any information you want on the Image, and then drag and drop it into book designer

01-11-2009, 04:12 AM	#3
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	You can centre it for a particular text size by adding in the appropriate number of blank lines. The trouble is, though, that if the user changes the text size, it's not going to be centred any more. The concept of "pages" (and hence vertical centering) doesn't really fit in terribly well with eBooks.

01-11-2009, 12:32 PM	#5
davers Connoisseur Posts: 51 Karma: 6562 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: Sony Dark Blue 505	That sounds like a good idea...taking say...a screen shot of my title page and cropping it down to fit on one page... Hmm..I'll have to play around with that and see if I can get it to work. Thanks! Dave

01-11-2009, 04:58 PM	#6
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	Resize or crop to 800 by 600 pixels. This is the size of a Sony or Cybook screen.

01-12-2009, 07:03 AM	#7
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	That's a very clever idea!

01-12-2009, 04:21 PM	#8
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,975 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	FeedBooks does something like this for ePub, using padding-top: in its title.css. Download any FeedBooks ePub and unzip it to see how it is done. However, this may not be possible in Book Designer. Alternatively, Adobe in its EPUB Best Practices Guide suggests using SVG graphics to build the cover page, including the title and author text. This definitely isn't possible in Book Designer. If you do build an ePub cover page, Calibre's epub-meta command has a --get-cover option which extracts the 1st page of the ePub as a 600x800 JPG image. This would be one way to get a cover image for non-ePub versions.

Advert

Advert