From the course: Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB

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Preparing images

Preparing images

From the course: Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB

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Preparing images

So you're starting from scratch and you are gathering all of your assets together in order to start linking to them in your HTML and XML files. Let's start with talking about images, preparing your images. If you already have images in an InDesign layout or PDF, then this does not concern you, because when we export from there, as I'll cover in future chapters, we can figure out what's happening with the resolution, and so on. Let's say that you have an image that you took with your camera and you have it open, I'm going to use Photoshop here. What should you do to prep it for your fixed-layout EPUB? First of all, the image needs to be in JPEG or PNG format, and they really prefer that you do it in JPEG format. And the only time that you ever need PNG is if you have any kind of transparency in the image, and you want to see something through it, but Apple recommends that you try and stay away from PNG just because it takes longer to process. In other words, your readers will be…

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