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Originally Posted by dgatwood
Alas, the software I used originally lacked that level of capability.
Of course, I probably would have still translated to XML even if it did, because the custom software gives me a lot of control over the final markup that would have been hard to deal with otherwise:
- Drop caps are carefully positioned based on the letter and the text after it, complete with cut-ins (shape-outside), where applicable.
- "Special" pages (dedication, epigraph, title, verso/copyright, part separator) are SVG pages with a fixed layout.
- Cover art image size differs—the EPUB has a lower-resolution cover because of iBooks resolution limitations, whereas the Kindle has a higher-resolution cover so that it will look better after Amazon's kindlegen tool scales it down (grr).
- The Kindle edition uses very different markup to improve compatibility with KF7 devices (but resulting in something that can't pass EPUB validation).
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Not to digress, but, this:
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whereas the Kindle has a higher-resolution cover so that it will look better after Amazon's kindlegen tool scales it down (grr).
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...given that the cover is supplanted by the cover art that you upload at step 5 (or is it 6 now? The "Marketing image" upload, in any event...), why do you do this?
And after Dag replies, I return this thread to the control of its...starter.
Hitch