Hi,
I'm really unhappy with the new update of Atlantis. I have been happily using it for a year now to create ePubs which I sell. My eBooks have many images, but the new version of Atlantis creates a separate html file for each one of my images that has a height over 5 cm. It used to be about 10.3cm, which would then make an image would fill a page. Now all my eBooks - some which have hundreds of images - all have sepearate pages with the images blown up far too big and their captions are on separate pages. Why is this happening? Why did Atlantis have to change this image setting?
Is there any way I can have the old setting back? Even images that are 6cm cm high are made to fill a page. My eBooks now look horrible because of this.
Can anyone tell me where I can download the previous Atlantis software version, so I can continue with the same settings for my eBooks? I'm really unhappy with how this setting is changed, and I can't spend hours and hours going through hundreds of images to change their size setting, just because this new version has changed its image settings.
Any help greatly appreciated.
George
New Version - badly affects images in eBooks
As you most probably know, EPUB is designed for reflowable content. EPUB is not meant for any specific screen size. If Atlantis saved "larger images" to eBook "as is" (i.e. with a fixed size), they might not display correctly on eReaders with smaller screen sizes. This is why the current and older versions of Atlantis save "larger images" to EPUB "zoomed to full screen". There is no mistake: the previous version of Atlantis did this too. But there is a change regarding "larger images" in the latest version of Atlantis. In older versions of Atlantis, a "larger image" was any portrait-oriented image (with height greater than width) at least 300 pixels in width and 400 pixels in height. In the latest version of Atlantis, a "larger image" is an image of any orientation which is at least 200 pixels in width and 200 pixels in height. Yes, this means more "full screen" images in your eBooks. I suppose this means a better display on devices with smaller screen sizes, and a "different" (possibly a "poorer") display on some devices with bigger screen sizes.
It is not hard at all to increase the "minimal size" for "larger images" within the Atlantis code. But I am not sure that there is a "perfect size" that would make everyone happy.
Yes, the new version of Atlantis saves more images to EPUB "zoomed to full screen". But you can still instruct Atlantis not to "full screen" individual images from your source document. A "larger image" in a source document is supposed to be placed within a dedicated paragraph containing nothing but that image. If you insert, let's say, a nonprintable "line break" character right after the image, Atlantis would not save it "full screened". Just click right after the image, and press Shift+Enter to insert a "line break" character. So you can still control which images will be saved "zoomed to full screen".
But if you still believe that the "minimal size" for "larger images" should be increased, we are open for a discussion about this.
It is not hard at all to increase the "minimal size" for "larger images" within the Atlantis code. But I am not sure that there is a "perfect size" that would make everyone happy.
Yes, the new version of Atlantis saves more images to EPUB "zoomed to full screen". But you can still instruct Atlantis not to "full screen" individual images from your source document. A "larger image" in a source document is supposed to be placed within a dedicated paragraph containing nothing but that image. If you insert, let's say, a nonprintable "line break" character right after the image, Atlantis would not save it "full screened". Just click right after the image, and press Shift+Enter to insert a "line break" character. So you can still control which images will be saved "zoomed to full screen".
But if you still believe that the "minimal size" for "larger images" should be increased, we are open for a discussion about this.
Hi,
Thanks for the quick reply.
The problem is that I have been using your excellent software for a year now and have become accustomed to producing eBooks with images of a certain size. Now suddenly the settings have been changed and my eBooks lose their desired appearance. This means users of your software would need to completely change all their files to conform with the new settings.
Many of my eBooks which I sell across multiple platforms, have hundreds of images. I know what size to set the images to in the old version. But with this new version I have to change them all again and resave. Can't we have an option to decide the desired image height?
Tonight, I've had to restore my PC to an old system version to remove the new update. I needed to to update three of my ebooks for customers, and could not delay in resizing the images. If I used the eBooks produced by your new version, they would have looked awful for the customers. Very frustrating! Why is there no mention of this change in the update info?
Thanks for the quick reply.
The problem is that I have been using your excellent software for a year now and have become accustomed to producing eBooks with images of a certain size. Now suddenly the settings have been changed and my eBooks lose their desired appearance. This means users of your software would need to completely change all their files to conform with the new settings.
Many of my eBooks which I sell across multiple platforms, have hundreds of images. I know what size to set the images to in the old version. But with this new version I have to change them all again and resave. Can't we have an option to decide the desired image height?
Tonight, I've had to restore my PC to an old system version to remove the new update. I needed to to update three of my ebooks for customers, and could not delay in resizing the images. If I used the eBooks produced by your new version, they would have looked awful for the customers. Very frustrating! Why is there no mention of this change in the update info?
How many (and which) eReading devices do you use to test your EPUBs? Which devices display your "new EPUBs" (saved with the new version of Atlantis) poorly? Which devices are so badly affected?If I used the eBooks produced by your new version, they would have looked awful for the customers.
Because we never advertised anything like "larger images" or "minimal size for full-screen images" through the Atlantis Word Processor manual. It is rather internal stuff which we changed multiple times over the years following the feedback we received from our users.Why is there no mention of this change in the update info?
By the way, the new version of Atlantis has been under betatesting for 4 months. No one raised this issue during the betatesting phase.
Hi,
I'm using the Sony viewer and my Nook & Kobo to read the files.
The problem is I've been steadily using your product for over a year and have grown to rely on it outputting my images in a certain way. To go and change the way it now displays all of the images in my eBooks means I can no longer rely on the Atlantis program.
I'm not sure why no one else has brought up this issue to you, but I can assure you I am being entirely serious. I publish a large number of eBooks, including a series of Art books, and Atlantis was my software of choice, rather than more expensive options, due to the quality and ease of ePub the program creates. However, with the program now affecting my images in this way, I will now have to either use the old version or find an alternative. This is the reason why I think this should have been announced in the update. If you change something that drastically alters how images are displayed in an eBook, yes, of course we should be told about it.
Thanks for replying and I hope a new version may address this issue.
I'm using the Sony viewer and my Nook & Kobo to read the files.
The problem is I've been steadily using your product for over a year and have grown to rely on it outputting my images in a certain way. To go and change the way it now displays all of the images in my eBooks means I can no longer rely on the Atlantis program.
I'm not sure why no one else has brought up this issue to you, but I can assure you I am being entirely serious. I publish a large number of eBooks, including a series of Art books, and Atlantis was my software of choice, rather than more expensive options, due to the quality and ease of ePub the program creates. However, with the program now affecting my images in this way, I will now have to either use the old version or find an alternative. This is the reason why I think this should have been announced in the update. If you change something that drastically alters how images are displayed in an eBook, yes, of course we should be told about it.
Thanks for replying and I hope a new version may address this issue.
Hi, it is a bit of a problem also for me, since 200x200 is a very small size, and a picture of that size enlarged to full screen doesn't look very well anyway.
There's still the possibility to use the manual line break to prevent this, but it's a bit unpractical to use it for every image, if you don't want them to be visualized in full screen.
Weren't it be possible to let the user choose the size at which images would occupy their own page when creating an ebook? Default size can be 200x200, as long as you can change it.
Just a suggestion.
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Never mind, I saw there is a fix already and I downloaded the new beta, thanks it's perfect!
There's still the possibility to use the manual line break to prevent this, but it's a bit unpractical to use it for every image, if you don't want them to be visualized in full screen.
Weren't it be possible to let the user choose the size at which images would occupy their own page when creating an ebook? Default size can be 200x200, as long as you can change it.
Just a suggestion.
......
Never mind, I saw there is a fix already and I downloaded the new beta, thanks it's perfect!