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Control image conversion

April 13, 2018, 1:48 am
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I'm making an ePub with a largish map.
Using Sigil to edit and then create AZW3 with the Kindlegen plugin to read on a PW3.

Original format was JPEG, which was about 500 KB.

I loaded it in Photoshop and sharpened and cleaned it it a bit and saved to a GIF file. Reduced the colour depth to 8 colours, which was all that was necessary, getting a 200 kB GIF that looks better than the original JPEG.
(Would have used PNG, but I know Kindlegen doesn't support that.)
Normally I thought Kindlegen will just pass through GIFs unaltered, but it converted my map into a 120 kB JPEG (looking at the AZW using Calibre to see the resources in it).

Also this JPEG was resized from the original 1456x2004 to 934x1285 px.

Why the **** is it doing this? Is the image too big, in kB or pixels?

With 300 dpi Kindles like the PW3 having 1440x1080 screen, maybe the idea is that larger images are just redundant. But if I zoom and pan I can use much larger images at full resolution--if they let me. If you use a Kindle app on a tablet, etc, you can view much larger high res images.

Surely, for instance, art books, graphic novels would demand high quality images. How do they get them through?
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Getting a blank page between two images?

April 24, 2018, 10:36 am
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Hello all,

I've currently been stumped by this problem. I want to have a separate image that immediately comes after my cover image, yet for some reason this seems impossible. Of course in MS word everything looks fine, page breaks, etc, yet after converting to Mobie in Calibre I get a blank page between the two images. Any help would greatly be appreciated. I'm new to this forum so if there is more information that I should post please let me know.

EDIT: Better explanation of what I'm trying to do. I have an image that I inserted into my word document, in Calibre I'm trying to have a different cover image. What I've done so far; Calibre marks the inserted image as the default cover, I click change cover image and select the image I want, now at this point if I hit convert Calibre erases the image that I inserted into my word doc, however if I check use cover from source file everything works as I want it to or so it seems. I can preview the converted file and It has my cover image then the image I inserted, yet when I check it on my kindle it only has the cover image.

TL;DR I want a cover image for my book then another image after the cover before the title.
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Problem with transparent PNG

April 28, 2018, 3:15 pm
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Hi guys. I have problem with transperent PNG file in table. There is no problem with epub or kebup but kindle preview doesnt show my png file in table. I attached picture. Thanks

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Kindle Previewer 3.21 won't export file

May 7, 2018, 12:36 am
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I have uploaded an epub file to the latest previewer. When I view book information it recognises that it is in English, but when I try to export I get a warning that Export is not supported for Arabic and Indian languages.
The book is entirely in English but has quite a few foreign words and characters. It is a fantasy book with invented "elf language".
All the metadata specifies English as the language.
:help:
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Start mobi on Chapter One page

May 9, 2018, 3:48 am
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Hi happy helpers!

I've been trying to have a mobi file open up and start on a specific page "Chapter One" of a book, but when I put in the Text guide code on the epub and convert it, the mobi file opens up in the middle of the copyright page.

This is the code I used on the epub.

Quote:
<guide>
<reference type="cover" title="Cover" href="Text/cover.xhtml"/>
<reference type="toc" title="Table of Contents" href="Text/Title.xhtml#_idContainer002"/>
<reference type="text" title="Text" href="Text/One.xhtml"/>
</guide>
I then convert the epub to mobi using calibri.

The odd thing is that when I open the mobi file on Kindle on my iPhone and my laptop, it starts off on Chapter One, but when I open it up on my physical Kindle, it starts off in the middle of the copyright page.

At first, I thought it could be because my kindle is old, but I had two other people try it out on their own physical kindles (Kindle Paperwhite), and it's still the same issue.

Does anyone know the reasons and a solution to this?
I would really love the help!

:thanks:
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Troubleshooting iOS sideloading from iTunes

May 10, 2018, 12:32 am
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I can't open my converted *.azk ebook files on my iOS devices.

I consulted this thread but I don't understand what it means about searching for invisible unicode characters. The book I am working on does include Japanese text, so there is definitely unicode text inside.

Details:

I have made an ebook in Scrivener 3.0.2 on OS X (10.13.4). I export (compile) the book from Scrivener as KF8/Mobi. I then open the book in Kindle Previewer (3.21), wait for the conversion to complete, and then choose File -> Export -> File format: Books for side-loading to iOS devices (*.azk).

I have an iPad 2 and an iPhone X connected to my Mac with iTunes (12.7.4.76). I then go to my device, choose Kindle, and add the converted .azk ebook, but it doesn't show up on either device. If I add a .mobi file, then it immediately appears on the device, but the formatting is messed up.

So, the files are definitely being added to the device, but there is something wrong with the *.azk files-- how can I troubleshoot this? In Kindle Previewer, I can choose "View -> Conversion Log", but this is the log for the conversion from the original file into .mobi, not the export to .azk.

I also tried quickly making a very basic book with just a few pages of English text; this book has the same problem (mobi file sideloads correctly, but azk file does not).
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Kindle Create now does comics

May 11, 2018, 7:17 am
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Version 1.6.97.0 of Kindle Create is now available.

Under "Help" -> "Settings" -> "Early Access" there is a new option to "Enable Beta Features". The documentation for that option reads "All features in early access are work in progress and not guaranteed to work with all documents."

I turned it on and restarted KindleCreate as prompted. It enabled a new option to create "Comics with Guided View".

Kindle Create already had the functionality of Kindle Textbook Creator built in. Now it is also a replacement for Kindle Comic Creator.
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Floating images in mobi format

May 13, 2018, 7:59 am
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Hi guys,

A beginner's question as I do not know anything about the mobi file format.

I want to transfer an epub file to a friend in this format: does it accept floating images (e.g. with CSS float: left; )?

Thanks!
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Kindle Previewer 3 versus KDP Online Previewer

May 15, 2018, 8:46 pm
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Hi

I am self publishing a cookbook on KDP. It is a fixed layout ePub format.

I verified this book on ePub verifier and there were no errors. It also looks perfect on Kindle Previewer 3. However when I uploaded the manuscript on KDP and previewed it on the 'Online Previewer' during the uploading process, it looks wonky with numerous formatting errors, such as out of whack character spacing and paragraph styles running amok.

My question is ... which (Previewer 3 versus the 'Online Previewer' used during manuscript upload) is the more accurate to use for the purpose of testing how my ebook appears on Kindle readers?

Thanks!
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Force a background color with Kindle app color modes?

May 25, 2018, 10:44 am
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The Kindle macOS and iOS reading apps include a "Color Mode" that lets the user select from among "White," "Black," and "Sepia."

When making an ebook, if I have a
Code:
<p>
tag and add CSS such as
Code:
background-color: hsl(240, 100%, 87.5%);
, the paragraph will show up on a purple background as expected in "White" mode. However, in "Black" and "Sepia" mode, all such background colors are ignored.

Is there a way to force the background color to apply regardless of the Color Mode, or does the Color Mode override the CSS of the book?

I was hoping to be able to specify a font color and background color for certain
Code:
<p>
tags.
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SVG and float CSS on Kindle

May 26, 2018, 12:51 am
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When I use float:left, it crushes my SVGs vertically in Kindle Previewer and the macOS Kindle app.

Here is my HTML:

Code:
<p class="speechbubble chat-octopus"><span class="speechicon"><img src="../Images/file4.svg" alt="タコ"/></span>私たち</p>
Here is my CSS:

Code:
p.speechbubble img {
  width: 2em;
  height: 2em;
  margin: 0em;
}

span.speechicon {
  float: left;
}
Here is what this looks like:


And this is what it looks like if I remove float: left:



When I use float:left with a JPG instead of an SVG, the JPG is fine (it is not vertically crushed like the SVG is).

Is there a way to float SVGs without crushing them? Or do I need to convert them to PNG or JPG (I'm trying to avoid this because A) I scale the images at several points in the text and B) the transparency breaks sometimes when using PNG)?

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Space between First and Second line on the Chapters

June 6, 2018, 7:09 am
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Hey happy helpers!

So I've formatted this novel for a client but when I convert the book to mobi there seems to be a space between the first and second line of the first paragraph of every chapter.

Check this out:

Went in a looked at the coding and noticed that it was the first large letter of every paragraph that was causing it. So when I remove the first letter, the spacing between the lines are normal. But I'd like to keep it Larger than the rest.

This is the coding that I used.
Quote:
<p class="First-Paragraph"><span class="First-Letter-Caps---Caslon _idGenCharOverride-1">A</span><span class="Caps">melia Knight pulled </span>the hood over her head and stepped into the mouth of hell.</p>
Quote:
span.First-Letter-Caps---Caslon {
font-family:"Adobe Caslon Pro", serif;
font-size:2.25em;
font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal;
}
If anyone knows how to fix it or if anyone sees what I'm not seeing in the codes, do let me know. I would love the help and to learn from this.

:thanks:
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AZW3 - not able to browse TOC entries

June 7, 2018, 5:59 am
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Hello.
I have a weird problem with an AZW3 file: I can't browse through the locations in the book that correspond to the entries in the TOC.ncx file. As you know, usually you can jump between locations by clicking on the left and right arrows in the "book navigation" menu (in kindle models with touch screen), or by pushing the arrows on the square button below the screen (in the older models).

In this specific file, though (which was converted from EPUB), this navigation doesn't get past the second item. I attach both the ePUB and the AZW3 file.

Can anyone help?

Thank you.

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Problem previewing on Kindle iOS app

June 8, 2018, 3:25 am
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Hello everyone, just a technical question for anyone who have experience similar problem of previewing a mobi file on a Kindle iOS app on an iPad (where the pages turned up blank), while at the same time it previews with NO problems on the Kindle Previewer 3 (online and app)?

I've tried sending the mobi file via sendtokindle as well, and the same 'blank page' problem persists on the iPad.

The mobi file is created on the Kindle Kid's Book Creator with a PDF file.

Can someone shed some light on this, thank a mil.
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Borderless tables in kindle?

June 18, 2018, 4:37 pm
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Is it possible to have borderless tables in your kindle mobi files?

In my word document my tables show up as borderless, however when I try to preview it using the kindle previewer, there are now grey borders around my tables which is very frustrating. If I change it to have borders then its black borders. Is there a way to format it in word so that there are no borders when I upload my document to be converted to the kindle mobi format?
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Issue with drop caps under the .kfx format

June 19, 2018, 6:59 am
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Hi friends;

As all you know, Amazon has developed a new ebook format, .kfx. Supposly, that new format, among others things, would deliver perfect drop caps for all kindle devices with support for .kfx. However things not to seem being so. Many times, before the drop cap there is a symbol (an "em" dash, a quotation mark, a question mark, etc.) and when that is the case, then things look awfull under .kfx (but they look fine under .kf8).

Watch the picture below:

Attachment 164557

In Kindle for Android, the page break after the drop cap is not present, but the cap (—L) looks tiny and there is a big gap before starting the text. I made a lot of trials but I couldn't fix the issue. The code I'm employing now (and works fine with .kf8) is the following:

Code:
<p><span class="dropcap"><span class="sm">—</span>L</span>orem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla ac tellus nunc.
and the css styles are:

Code:
.dropcap {
  float: left;
  font-size: 3em;
  font-weight: bold;
  margin: -0.2em 5px -0.3em 0;
}

.sm {
  vertical-align: 40%;
  font-size: 40%;
}
Attached to this post, you can find the respective .epub.

I will appreciate any tip you can give me about how to solve this problem. Many thanks in advance.

Regards
Rubén

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Frustrated with 3 column layout

July 3, 2018, 4:07 pm
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I just finished with all the formatting for a chess book for kindle. For the main chess notation in the book, I created a three column CSS/HTML. I package it all together in an epub from the command line and then create the mobi/kf8 using kindlegen.

I submit it through KDP, and once done, I download the mobi file that the KDP setup offers so that you can upload onto your kindle devices to ensure it looks correct. And it does. I have a kindle fire 10, a kindle fire 7, a kindle paperwhite, a mobile phone, and the kindle previewer software. On all five, the columns look perfect (see screenshot below). However, the columns look off on the KDP online previewer, but I figured since I downloaded the source file and uploaded into all kindle devices directly, that it was fine. Last night, I submitted the file for publication. Today, I view the look inside, and it too looks perfect. I'm pretty satisfied, except I decided to download a "sample preview," and low and behold, the columns are way off just like the online previewer.

I unpublished immediately, and I feel awful because one person bought the book in the short period after it went live and before I could unpublish. I am very frustrated at this point and I am looking for any advice.

Here is the HTML I'm using for the columns.

<div class="container">
<div class="column-left"> 6 </div>
<div class="column-center"> e5+ </div>
<div class="column-right"> <span class="b">K</span>e6 </div>
</div>


and the CSS:

.column-left{ float: left; width: 7%; margin-left: 30%; font-weight: bold;}
.column-right{ float: right; width: 15%; margin-right: 20%; font-weight: bold; }
.column-center{ display: inline-block; width: 15%; padding-left: 5%; font-weight: bold;}

Here are the screenshots. The top screenshot is of the downloaded file from the KDP setup process (looks perfect), and the bottom screenshot is from the actual file you receive when buying/sampling.

Thank you
Steven




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Font used in footnote popup

July 4, 2018, 2:38 pm
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This is an AZW3 file I've created.
Could you explain why the footnote has a different font (noserif) than the main text?
I haven't specified a font in the css. The main text uses the user's choice.

Here's my definition for the footnote – but it's not really relevant as it is how the footnotes appear on their own page, not in the footnote popup:

.xxnote {
display: block;
font-size: 90%;
text-align: justify;
text-indent: 0;
margin: 3pt 0 0;
}

Thank you.

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Hidden attribute not working properly in some devices

August 11, 2018, 8:41 pm
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Hello guys!

I'm having a little trouble with the TOC (HTML) of my book... It's a valid (3.0.1) .epub file, which I converted to .mobi using kindlegen without warnings or errors.

The problem is the way my Front Matter section is renderized in some devices. I put a "hidden" attribute in the section (see code below), and I wanna it:
a) to appear in the Device TOC (the one you access via GO TO menu in the Paperwhite, for example), but NOT in the book itself.
b) to work as a jump point when using the arrows to jump to the previous/next section.

So, to sum up, the Front Matter section has all the navigational properties, but is hidden in the TOC in the beginning of the book.

But this is what happens after I copy the .mobi file to my devices, as a test:

1) Kindle Paperwhite, most recent version: everything is ok, the way I expected. The Front Matter section doesn't appears on the TOC of the book itself, but does appears in the GO TO menu with the collapsible arrow feature, and I can successfully jump between each part of it using the arrows ( |< and >| ) in the page flip screen.

2) Kindle 5th generation (Kindle 5, the one with the 5 buttons in the botton): the hidden part of the TOC DOES APPEARS inside the book. I don't know why, since i believe this model does have support for the HTML/EPUB3 features. Am I wrong?

3) Kindle app for Android: This one is very strange. Everything is fine, except the text header "Front Matter" appears 2 times, one inside of another! Like (the > represents a collapsible arrow):

> FRONT MATTER (all uppercase)
> Front Matter (The way is actually writed in the TOC)
Foo
Bar
Foo Bar
Bar Foo
TOC
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
... ... ...

This is the HTML code (just a excerpt)

Code:
<nav epub:type="toc" id="toc-nav">

<ol>

<li hidden="hidden"><span>Front Matter</span>
    <ol>
        <li><a href="foo.xhtml">foo</a></li>
        <li><a href="bar.xhtml">bar</a></li>
        <li><a href="foobar.xhtml">foo bar</a></li>
        <li><a href="barfoo.xhtml">bar foo</a></li>
        <li><a href="toc.xhtml">TOC</a></li>
    </ol>
</li>

<li><a href="c01.xhtml">Chapter 1</a></li>
<li><a href="c02.xhtml">Chapter 2</a></li>
<li><a href="c03.xhtml">Chapter 3</a></li>
...
...
...
What's going on?? Is there anyway of make this work the way it works on the Paperwhite in the others devices?

Tks a lot!
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Kindle not recognizing Ancient Greek

August 12, 2018, 7:16 pm
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Hello, please, I'm trying to convert an Ancient Greek text from docx to Kindle. I took the text from Wikisource.

So, I copy it to Word, send to Kindle convert and have it in my device.

But Kindle does not recognize words, if I try to select one, it just selects a letter, so I can not check the dictionary.

Any thoughts?

I've tried unicode, tried saving as webpage.

The weird thing is that I've done it before and it worked well. I have some Ancient Greek texts within my Kindle. They work perfectly. There was something I did to make them work I don't remember what was.

Perhaps you know.
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