Hi Folks
I could do with some kind(le) help. I'm working towards the publication of my daughter's book which'll contain a large number of images (optimised to keep the weight down). I'll be using the same HTML structures for web promo, EPUB and Kindle, and only slightly modified CSS for the three.
The result is that everything looks the way I want it to. Well, almost.
Web browsers (Webkit, Blink, Gecko), EPUB, iBook (iPhone and iPad), and the Kindle App on iOS (going through Kindlegen 2.9 for the mobi, and Kindle Previewer 2.94 to build an AZK file sideloaded onto iOS devices), Kindle 4 PC 1.25.1 are all perfect. If I sideload the mobi to my Kindle Fire, it's good too.
Having both the previewer 2.94 and 3.29 I have an issue. I can have good previews (in Previewer 2.94) for the three Fires and the Kindle DX, plus (in Previewer 3.29 with "Enhanced Typesetting") everything that that offers, but not for the Kindle Voyage preview in 2.94. Or I can have everything in the Previewer 2.94 but total crap in 3.29.
Now I don't know how relevant 2.94 previews are today to the hardware out there. Can I assume that all but the very oldest Kindles have had software upgrades*) so that the only relevant previews would be those from the current (3.29) previewer? Or are there still enough Voyages around that won't be updated to the wonders of Enhanced Typesetting and thus require a different approach?
I've tried a few @media queries, but the don't bite in the previewer 2.94.
klaus
*) I can't tell, because my own Fire is on a lan behind a proxy (long story) so it never talks to Amazon. I use it for development work only anyway, as I still prefer dead tree books to reading on screen. There, I've admitted it.
I could do with some kind(le) help. I'm working towards the publication of my daughter's book which'll contain a large number of images (optimised to keep the weight down). I'll be using the same HTML structures for web promo, EPUB and Kindle, and only slightly modified CSS for the three.
The result is that everything looks the way I want it to. Well, almost.
Web browsers (Webkit, Blink, Gecko), EPUB, iBook (iPhone and iPad), and the Kindle App on iOS (going through Kindlegen 2.9 for the mobi, and Kindle Previewer 2.94 to build an AZK file sideloaded onto iOS devices), Kindle 4 PC 1.25.1 are all perfect. If I sideload the mobi to my Kindle Fire, it's good too.
Having both the previewer 2.94 and 3.29 I have an issue. I can have good previews (in Previewer 2.94) for the three Fires and the Kindle DX, plus (in Previewer 3.29 with "Enhanced Typesetting") everything that that offers, but not for the Kindle Voyage preview in 2.94. Or I can have everything in the Previewer 2.94 but total crap in 3.29.
Now I don't know how relevant 2.94 previews are today to the hardware out there. Can I assume that all but the very oldest Kindles have had software upgrades*) so that the only relevant previews would be those from the current (3.29) previewer? Or are there still enough Voyages around that won't be updated to the wonders of Enhanced Typesetting and thus require a different approach?
I've tried a few @media queries, but the don't bite in the previewer 2.94.
klaus
*) I can't tell, because my own Fire is on a lan behind a proxy (long story) so it never talks to Amazon. I use it for development work only anyway, as I still prefer dead tree books to reading on screen. There, I've admitted it.