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Originally Posted by KevinH
Check out the "orientation" metadata value that can be set before conversion to KF8 mobi. It should take care of that (at least that is what is implied in the fixed format sample and guide).
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Thanks. I found the relevant section in the Publisher's Guide.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
1. Yes. You can find the guidelines in the Amazon Publisher's Guide, and see an example of how it works with a sample book that Amazon provides (and view it on Publisher, too): http://amzn.to/HLkKW2 |
Thanks for the link. I had looked at the sample KF8 file before I wrote my post, and while it explains, for example, how to do drop-caps Kindle style, I don't think that it mentioned anything about orientation metadata.
OTOH, the Publisher's Guide, mentions orientation metadata, but only in the fixed layout section, which makes me wonder whether it'll be ignored for non-fixed layout KF8 files.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
2. No, it makes a gigantic mess. ;-)
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I asked because Kindle Previewer is unfortunately not 100% reliable. I tested a (hybrid) KF8 .mobi file with it and when I switched from Fire mode to Kindle mode, it displayed one of the paragraph formats incorrectly. I.e. it looked wrong in the previewer, but OK on the actual Kindle.