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08-05-2012, 02:41 AM | #2 |
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Thanks for the book.
For what it is worth, an opinion not a criticism, I like to choose my preferred font from the ones available on my reader rather than have the ebook designer choose the font for me. |
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On my PB 622 i can change the font. Exceptions are only the Headlines and the small caps. It was in my intention not to change them together with the rest of the text-body. Should I issue a version without embedded fonts ? |
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I took the liberty of cleaning the images in the same way as I did for Alex's "The Woman in White". Now the background is pure white, and the size of the images has been reduced to 2.7 MB. Feel free to use them, or not.
Personally, I like to mess around with mildly eccentric fonts and layouts. Especially for a work like this, which is widely available in other (free) epub editions, I think you should feel free to be as creative as you like in terms of layout. Following on that, I am going to be wildly inconsistent and pick a few personal nits:
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>>What about replacing -- with — ? I will have a look on that >> Having captions on illustrations with the caption in the actual image seems like an unecessary and redundant pleonasm. At the current size, it would be hard to read embedded captions like this (see attachment), especially on a 6'' device. >> Any particular reason why you've not rendered it as a table? the dots ...........................................47,000 >> Lastly, I don't think it really works to have a border around illustrations like this, which have a white background and were borderless in the original. Now the backgound is clean white, so you're probably right. This work is assumed to be in the Life+70 public domain OR the copyright holder has given specific permission for distribution. Copyright laws differ throughout the world, and it may still be under copyright in some countries. Before downloading, please check your country's copyright laws. If the book is under copyright in your country, do not download or redistribute this work.
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I get your points, I am often guilty of forgetting those of us with small screens.
I've spent some frustrating hours trying to get those dots into tables, but it doesn't seem like it can be done. I ended up sacrificing the dots instead to keep the table as text. I suppose a (complicated) compromise would be to use svg. I really should get that wiki page on image cleansing ready. A few hints re. Gimp: * Colors->Levels to adjust black/white cutoff points * Filters->Enhancement->Unsharp to improve clarity of ink/line drawings. A value of 0.2-0.4 is normally the best. However, for a bunch of images such as yours, manually correcting each one is a pain, so I do a batch operation with Imagemagick instead: Code:
cd Images mkdir cleansed for f in *.png do convert $f -level 25%,90% -unsharp 0.3x0.3+3+0 cleansed/$f done You can save a few extra bytes by running the images through the pngcrush utility afterwards: Code:
cd cleansed mkdir crushed pngcrush -d crushed *.png |
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And yes, I'd appreciate a version without an embedded font. |
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Add a black layer. Layer->New Layer...->Foreground color (assuming it's black). Set the black layer mode to "Burn" in the layers dialog. This makes everything in the underlying layer look black, except pure white pixels. Now select the bottom layer to make changes on it, not on the black layer. Change color levels, remove speckles (with the eraser tool, or painting white on them), etc. Delete (or disable) the black layer before saving. PS. Having curly quotes and apostrophes would also be nice. |
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I'm eager to see it
Changes to version 1.1: - your pictures are in - replaced thousands of " and ' (yes, unfortunately Jellby is right with this) - repalced -- and - - - removed the borders The graphical table is still there, and, of couse, the redundant captions. @Alex: I embedded another stylesheet without fonts, you can change to it just by renaming the stylesheets (I guess ther's no need to explain you how...) Btw: shall I translate these Phrases: “Constantinopolitanischerdudelsackspfeifenmachersg esellschafft!” ?? |
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