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• • February 21, 2014 at 1:35 pm #67282
    bookdesigner

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    It seems this should be a simple thing, but I can’t figure it out… I have a book with text then a grouped full page image and caption at the end of the chapter. I realize the images can’t bleed. I’m fine with that. (To make the images appear large on the ipad, i had to make them much larger than 600 x 600, even though I thought that was supposed to be the max size…)

    How do I make the grouped images and captions appear at a large size (and fit on one page) on both the ipad and kindle. I finally got a size that worked for the ipad, but when I previewed in Kindle Previewer, the image/caption group appears tiny in Fire HD and Fire HDX. Can I specify a percent width in indesign before exporting? Or do i need to crack open (yikes) the epub and add width:85%; to the image class, after I export from indesign?

    If all of the pix have the same object style will I just have to change one style in the CSS? The picture will be grouped and anchored with a caption, so maybe that’s the style that will affect things?

    Truly don’t get why the photos are so small on Kindle… Percentage seems the way to make them nearly fill the page, on all devices, but not sure how to go about it.

    Thanks for your help.

  • February 24, 2014 at 9:35 am #67294
    Anonymous

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    Hi,

    To answer this question, I would like to ask you which version of InDesign are you using? Till InDesign CC and earlier, we did not use to respect group items positioning and hence items even if grouped used to appear one after the other. With InDesign 9.2, group items maintain their relative position and hence there is no need to rasterize group anymore to preserve group appearance. But relative width is not honored for items if they are part of group. For example, if an image and caption are grouped together and image is set “Relative to Text flow” from Object export options, then also the image will be converted to fixed size in pixels since it is no possible to maintain group positioning with relative settings.
    If you have a workflow wherein you have a caption appearing right after the image, then you can avoid creating group and set image “Relative to text flow” if you wish your images to occupy entire available width of the reader.

    Regards,
    Pooja
    InDesign Engineering

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