Distorted images…
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February 28, 2015 at 6:48 am #73603Bill ShortridgeMember
I am using InDesign. Why are my images distorted when exporting to various readers? What can I do about it?
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March 8, 2015 at 10:36 am #73812Anne-Marie ConcepcionKeymaster
Distorted in what way? Which version of InDesign are you using?
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April 20, 2015 at 9:39 am #74842Julie GallagherMember
I’m having the same problem, but only with Kindle output. I have a large medical book with lots of pictures. I used object styles to manage the images; the ePub conversion was fine and the file validated easily. But any conversion from ePub to Kindle (using Kindle Previewer and several online converters) results in vertically distorted images that are often scaled to fill an entire page even if they’re the size of a postage stamp. I tried converting the original TIFs to JPG, PNG, and GIF in the ID file rather than controlling the conversion with Object Styles but it made no difference. Any suggestions?
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April 20, 2015 at 11:52 am #74846Gustavo MartinezMember
Are you able to post a sample epub file so we can test it. You can use dropbox or similar and post the link here.
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April 20, 2015 at 12:48 pm #74847Julie GallagherMember
Thanks for responding Guz. If you want to look at them, both the epub and mobi files are posted in Dropbox at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nsu7qxoh4rg2jph/AACsajjjcIZk8TKYsisrmUSia?dl=0
After all my efforts I think it might be just a display problem in both the Kindle Previewer and the Kindle app on the Mac. Lengthening and shortening the viewing window stretches and compresses the images vertically but not horizontally. I opened the files on an iPad; the images appear without distortion in both the epub and mobi versions.
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April 20, 2015 at 1:42 pm #74849Gustavo MartinezMember
Make a copy of the epub and try this. Change img._idGenObjectAttribute-1 from height:100% to height:auto, and get rid of min-width:100% and width:100%. In my test, this gets rid of the distortion in Kindle but you have to check the effect on other readers. Let us know.
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April 22, 2015 at 8:43 am #74878Julie GallagherMember
Thanks, guz.
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