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Devices which can read fixed layout, such as iPads, Kindle Fire and Kobo Arc, will enlarge the page to the width of the screen, regardless of the size of the page in pixels. So for example a fixed layout page with the dimensions of 1241 pixels high x 857 wide will fill the screen of the different versions of iPads with respective resolutions of 1024 x 768 and 2048 x 1536. Rather than the actual size of the page in pixels, the proportions become more important. So for example a page size of 1241x857 pixels will fill the width of the tall thin screen of Kindle Fire range (1280 x 800 or 1920x1200) but leave gaps at the top and bottom, due to the different proportions. Interestingly enough, whilst Amazon until very recently restricted the download of fixed layout ebooks to the kindle fire range, which were basically the only kindle devices capable of reading them. It now seems that the software has been updated and fixed layout can be downloaded and read on all kindles with KF8 - all be it in black and white on the Paperwhite and e-ink. As an addendum to the above, I notice the ebook mentioned above (1241x857) will fill the height of the screen on the e-ink kindle but leave gaps on the left and right - again due to the proportion of the screen. (I am not sure if anyone is interested in all this-probably talking to myself).
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