[FM Discuss] [Booki-dev] Experiences with Booki and Create Space

adam adam at flossmanuals.net
Sun Feb 12 06:07:31 PST 2012


all will be better soon James...stay posted for new :)

adam


On 02/11/2012 02:40 PM, Daniel James wrote:
> Hi James,
>
>> What I found was that things like
>> drawings look OK at 150 DPI but photographs look just awful.
>
> Booki is currently designed with the assumption that one pixel in the
> image should be one pixel in the web version. To get higher resolution
> print output, we need to be able to upload a photo with more than 600
> pixel width, and have Booki scale that down for the web version, but use
> all the pixels for the print version.
>
> This is the ticket: http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net/ticket/245
>
>> I
>> found that somehow or other my Booki software can see photos in the
>> editor but the window to add new images does not show existing images
>
> When you say existing, do you mean images you have uploaded, or images
> that were imported along with the book?
>
>> and if you try and upload a new image it won't complain but it won't
>> show your uploaded image either.
>
> That doesn't happen on booki.flossmanuals.net, perhaps there's a bug in
> your installation.
>
>> I know I reinstalled or upgraded
>> Booki a couple of times and this exact thing happened to me before.  I
>> vaguely remember having to copy my images to a new directory to solve
>> this but I'm damned if I can remember the details.
>
> Sounds like the image path is set incorrectly. A symlink may fix that.
>
>> Using The GIMP for cover designs and inserting the front and back
>> cover images into their wizard works OK.
>
> Inkscape may be a better choice, so you can use vector fonts (they will
> look sharper in print).
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
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