On 05/28/2014 06:42 AM, Ken Arromdee wrote:
Basically, for illustrations, illustrations on PG books are completely inadequate. What's worse is that the rules strongly suggest that an uploader use an image size and resolution that may have been sensible 10 years ago but is ludicrously small for a high resolution modern tablet, and doesn't show all the detail in the image.
The most detail you can get is the level of detail the printer left on the paper about 100+ years ago, minus the paper degradation. A "sensible" resolution does not depend on the rendering device and so could be established once for ever. We could require producers to provide images in a "sensible" resolution, and rescale them on the server for user consumption, but not with the present hardware budget and not without changing the WWers' workflow. Regards -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org