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Old 03-01-2014, 04:06 AM   #3
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Do I understand your request correctly?

I can't tell from looking if you've made a real fixed-format mobi, or if you've simply created a book made up of images. If you've created a book that is entirely made up of jpegs, and NOT a fixed-format mobi, what you want to do cannot be done; you cannot use anything like a "map" to place a link on an image; not in a specific place. you could obviously make the whole image a link, BUT, if you didn't use fixed-format, the image will enlarge when clicked, not launch a link.

So, that second image, the one with the "donate" link on it, is an image, right? (It certainly looks as though it is).

Sorry, but unless you're going to get into the mechanics of making an actual fixed-format MOBI, using Region Magnification and JSON, along with x-y coordinates, positioning the link is going to be impossible. This means that you'll have to use the same methodology as "pop-up" text in KF8. I'd recommend that you download the Fixed-format samples from Amazon and use the coding that they demonstrate for the RM boxes to position a pop-up for each area in which you want a link. That's the only way it's going to work.

The RM pop-ups ONLY work on books coded as fixed-format mobis, so this won't work if you simply have one page after another of jpegs, which is what I suspect you have (because you say it "validates," which says to me that you made an ePUB and ran it through ePUBcheck, but a fixed-format mobi file wouldn't validate. You may be using that term to mean something else, but that's what I'm inferring.)

By the way: I think you may want to prepare yourself for some complaints from readers with smaller devices. Fixed-format mobis can be read on Droid SmartPhones, and that much text on a fixed-format screen/jpg is going to be very difficult to read on a small screen, as you've taken away the readers' ability to size the font as they wished.

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