On 7/6/06, Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
I have an 1875 picture book to prepare for PG, with 36 pages of color illustrations. There is not much text to go with these illustrations. (The first section is an alphabet, followed by a couple fairy-tale-type stories based on nursery rhymes.)
The scans I've made are 8mb each, and when I crop them and convert to png, I can get each one down to just over a megabyte. However, from reading the PG guidelines and looking at a number of other example PG postings, this is still much too large for the purpose of an easily downloadable html file. So, what seems to make sense is to scale down and make some jpg images that would fit better.
It would be nice though, to have somewhere to preserve the high-resolution images, even if not at PG.
You can see a rough draft, with the first six images included, at: http://www.victoria.tc.ca/~sly/pb.htm
You can display the lower resolution versions in the main page, and link each image to a high resolution version. We do a similar thing with the illustrated magazines we put through DP. -- Jon Ingram