Electric Book Manager Documentation

Adding and replacing images

You must provide separate images for each output format that you want to produce. Each format may have different image requirements. Our template comes with six folders for images, which correspond to output formats: print-pdf, screen-pdf, web, app, and epub, and a _source folder for storing master versions of images.

Each folder should contain the same set of images, formatted appropriately for each format. For instance, while their file names must be identical, web images might be full-colour, 96dpi, and up to 800 pixels wide; while print-pdf images might be in greyscale, 300dpi and 2400 pixels wide. And your _source images may be full-colour and 600dpi. For more on preparing images, see the section on preparing images in the Electric Book workflow docs.

For a professional conversion service, you can also contact Electric Book Works.

Adding images

  1. From the dashboard, click on the project you would like to add images to. This will redirect you to the project detail page.
  2. Go to the three-dot menu icon to reveal more options, then click ‘Manage images’.
  3. Once you have optimized images for each format, drag and drop one image at a time from your computer onto the screen. This will prompt you to enter a path and filename for where each image will be stored in your project. Remember that paths depend on what format the image is for. For example, a publisher logo for the print book (if your folder containing the book is indeed called book, which is the template default for the first book) might be book/images/print-pdf/publisher-logo.jpg; and for web output it would be book/images/web/publisher-logo.jpg; and your hi-res source image would go into book/images/_source/publisher-logo.jpg; and so on for epub, screen-pdf and app.
  4. Once you have entered the path and clicked ‘Okay’, you should see a message that says ‘Image uploaded’.
  5. Make sure to click ‘Commit’ to store your images in version-control and sync them to your GitHub account.

Replacing images

  1. From the dashboard, click on the project you would like to change images in. This will take you to the project-detail page.
  2. Go to the three-dot menu icon to reveal more options, then click ‘Manage images’.
  3. Use the search bar to find the image you would like to replace. For instance, if you want to replace the publisher logo for the print-pdf, your search might be for book/images/print-pdf/publisher-logo.jpg or just logo.
  4. Once you can see the image you want to replace, drag and drop the new image on top of the original image.
  5. You should see the image thumbnail change and a message pop up saying ‘Image uploaded’.
  6. Make sure to click ‘Commit’ to store your images in version-control and sync them to your GitHub account.

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