Thread: Links die when converting from FXL epub to mobi?
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Old 01-10-2015, 02:29 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by radiocure View Post
Okay, so let me ask you this: after you build your epub to Amazon's specifications, what do you do with it? Or do you just personally never make FF Mobis aside from in the silly Kindle Kid's Creator or whatever?
Excuse me? We hand-code our FF and Comic-book mobis, thanks. That's why I'm asking about your use of the phrase, "conversion" to discuss converting a "fixed-format ePUB" into a "fixed-format MOBI." There isn't a "fixed-format ePUB" specification that converts cleanly and directly to MOBI, which is why I asked you. If you only mean that you are making an HTML/XHTML/CSS "epub" file that you then run through Kindlegen to get a FF MOBI, great, but your language led me to infer something completely different.

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What I do is run it through KindleGen, and on the 20 or so books I've done this for the result has been perfect, but I haven't had one with text links for footnotes before, and so that's why I'm asking if my workflow is impossible to begin with and that I've just been getting lucky for the last year—and if I am, I'm happy to hear a better way. I'm testing on a half-dozen different Kindles. Literally everything about the resulting .mobi is exactly as I'd like it to be—it's perfect—except the links don't go anywhere. It just seems surprising to me that everything else should work flawlessly but this one simple thing would be the thing to break. Should've known by now, I suppose.
I've never had an issue with links working, except, of course, that they won't work in RM (region magnification) panels.

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