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Old 07-02-2013, 03:00 PM   #172
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Originally Posted by JoseWriter View Post
Hi folks,

I've been working on creating an ebook out of Indesign for weeks. I used the Calibre mobi unpack plugin but I can't seem to find a way of repacking like I can with the Caliber Tweak option. I have reached this point because I am having problems with the image size as they display on the Fire HD devices (they look fine on the e-ink devices). I do not have a problem with the epub exports out of Indesign. The epub works perfectly straight out of the ID export, which gives you the option of relative page sizing for your images. I have tried various methods to try to get a good kindle version, including exporting to epub then converting to Mobi in Calibre, exporting to epub and creating the mobi using kindlegen in previewer, and on and on. The problems with any of those methods is that one thing or another goes wrong...problems with the images being to small on the Fire HD devices, or problems with the embedded fonts disappearing, or the drop caps disappear, bad spacing between paragraphs, the TOC disappears, or the files blow up when I try to open them with the kindle previewer. So I am now on about the 8th trial and error attempt: generate the mobi with the ID kindle export (which gives the best results except for the image width on the HD devices), edit the html and change the image width setting to 100% (great idea I picked up after endless hours scouring the mobil reads forum) and then repack the mobi file so that the previewer and KDP will accept it.

But how can I repack it without losing: the toc, the drop caps, the embedded fonts, or otherwise messing up the mobi file? I saw something on the boards about python, but when I went to the site it was daunting...I don't necessarily want to learn a whole new toolset just for this one change I want to make. I also saw someone post that I can just open the OPF in the previewer, but when I did this the page breaks were gone, the fonts were gone, and the TOC was gone.

The kindle unpack plugin creates several files and folders. I need to find a way to make a good mobi file out of them once I edit the image width option in the html. Help anyone?

JoseWriter
I would suggest working with the ePub output from InDesign, and running it through Kindlegen.

But if you really want to, the output from KindleUnpack shoudl go through KindleGen and regenerate the file accurately. The pseudo-ePub is generates is probably the best input to Kindlegen (if it's a Kindle file with a KF8 section).
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