Pitter patter! Let's get at her!

Today I decided to get back on track, fixing one problem at a time. Today I worked on fixing the broken links to images that I’ve moved since I originally placed them into the inDesign document. I moved some of the images and inDesign reports a warning when I load the document. In the Window -> Links panel there’s a list of all linked images. The broken links have a red tag. I tracked down original PSD files for the missing images and exported them again.

The image showing Buddy straddling the chimney is a 7.7 MB file, which is probably larger than necessary. I’ve read that uploading any eBook to Amazon over 5 MB incurs extra charges for each MB. My project weighs in a at a hefty 58 MB.

Layout problems as a result of no planning for image dimensions

Now that I’m doing the layout with text and images, my casual approach to image size and proportion is coming back to bite me. Here’s an example of an image that’s not the right dimensions. This particular image should be wide enough to fill the page, and it should have a comfortable place for the text, or it should be narrower. When I sketched these drawings months ago, I should have given a little more thought the overall design of the page. Oh, well. Hindsight is 20/20. Next time I’ll do it right.