Help with Book Formatting discussion

I'm currently formatting a non-fiction ebook which contains a table with information that would fit on a printed book page. For the ebook, I was thinking of adding it as an image, but I'm afraid the letter will be too small to read. Has anyone had experience on this?

I'm using html code to convert the book into an epub.

Thanks!

I'm doing something similar Ellie, although in Word... I was going to save the table as a GIF to see if that worked, apparently mainly text images should be saved as a GIF - not tested it yet!

Let me know how that works, I tried using GIF and making the conversion with mobipocket and didn't work. Only recognizes JPG and maybe PNG.

It's a complex eBook and haven't gotten to the chapter with the tables yet. Will let you what I did.

Oh right... not up to that part in my book yet either.

Ellie wrote: "Let me know how that works, I tried using GIF and making the conversion with mobipocket and didn't work. Only recognizes JPG and maybe PNG.



I've used gifs with no problem, but I use KindleGen. KindleGen 2 doubled the filesize it compresses images for reflowable books (to 127Kb) and upped to 256kb for fixed format (which I haven't used yet). If you've got an epub as a starting point, I'd definitely switch from MobiPocket to Kindlegen.

BTW: Amazon has some guidelines for image support here http://kindlegen.s3.amazonaws.com/Ama...

Jo, Not sure what will happen with Word, but I know if you save files from Word to filtered html, Word will compress the images without warning you, which took me ages to work out :-)

Ellie wrote: "I'm currently formatting a non-fiction ebook which contains a table with information that would fit on a printed book page. For the ebook, I was thinking of adding it as an image, but I'm afraid th..."

This is easy. Make your table in Word (or whatever word processor you use) and take into account that the ereader screen is smaller so you need a slightly larger font. Take a screenshot of the table and import that into your paint program. Crop the image and save it at as a jpeg. Adjust the size until is 256kb or less. When you insert the image into your ebook, set either the width OR height at 100% (whichever is greater). That way, no matter what sized screen the reader is using, the image will "fill" and it won't get cut off or shrink to an unreadable size.

html will look like (add brackets, of course):

img src="../images/table.jpg" width="100%" alt="Description of My Table"

Thanks!!

Thanks!!