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tomsem · 09-17-2012, 02:17 PM

When Kindle Touch adds KF8 fixed layout support, there will be another option that works with all post-KK Kindles. It is now supported by Kindle Keyboard and K4 (and of course Fire and some of the apps), and ironically while KT was the first eInk Kindle to get KF8 support, it is now the only one that doesn't support fixed layout (properly).

For fixed-layout (on my updated KK), the entire screen is available (up to 800x600) and you can zoom/pan full-page or panel views (which you cannot do on Kindle Fire, unless that's changed with the new devices). I can envision tools (calibre or some such) that can take a series of image files, and generate pages with thumbnails of those images that can be navigated as Panel Views, or else by detecting 'panels' in the image files and building the HTML that defines them for KF8 fixed layout format.

I wish Amazon would enable bookmarks and annotations for fixed-layout, and change the default Zoom of Panel views to 'Actual Size' rather than 'Fit-to-screen' (or at least saving a change to the Zoom default with the book so it persists across reading sessions), to avoid scaling artifacts, and they need to provide for accessible text (e.g. for TTS), but otherwise I think it is superior to what one could achieve with PDF image files, mobi, or the built in image viewer.

Yes, I'm pretty sure the KT image viewer was there prior to 5.1 update.

09-17-2012, 02:17 PM	#6
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,959 Karma: 27060153 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	When Kindle Touch adds KF8 fixed layout support, there will be another option that works with all post-KK Kindles. It is now supported by Kindle Keyboard and K4 (and of course Fire and some of the apps), and ironically while KT was the first eInk Kindle to get KF8 support, it is now the only one that doesn't support fixed layout (properly). For fixed-layout (on my updated KK), the entire screen is available (up to 800x600) and you can zoom/pan full-page or panel views (which you cannot do on Kindle Fire, unless that's changed with the new devices). I can envision tools (calibre or some such) that can take a series of image files, and generate pages with thumbnails of those images that can be navigated as Panel Views, or else by detecting 'panels' in the image files and building the HTML that defines them for KF8 fixed layout format. I wish Amazon would enable bookmarks and annotations for fixed-layout, and change the default Zoom of Panel views to 'Actual Size' rather than 'Fit-to-screen' (or at least saving a change to the Zoom default with the book so it persists across reading sessions), to avoid scaling artifacts, and they need to provide for accessible text (e.g. for TTS), but otherwise I think it is superior to what one could achieve with PDF image files, mobi, or the built in image viewer. Yes, I'm pretty sure the KT image viewer was there prior to 5.1 update. Last edited by tomsem; 09-17-2012 at 03:57 PM.