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Originally Posted by Hitch
I'm deducing, from the available evidence. If a KFX (yes, sorry, typo) file is delivered to a device--which we've seen--it has to exist somewhere. Sure, arguably, it could be converted or rendered on the fly--I would never say that's impossible--but the more likely scenario is that the KFX, like other formats, is being introduced during the upload processing, or, the PW (Publishing Workflow), which is everything that happens after you push "publish and save" and before the first buyer clicks "buy."
So...that's my personal deduction. I mean, you were on that thread with me: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=263902 . Amazon has pretty much always put all their elements in a single basket, so to speak, so, yes, I think that the KFX is added in the Publishing Workflow. Just like the AZK-for-iOS AZW file.
If the question is, do I see it in the existing MOBIs built with Amazon tools, at the creation end, i.e., Previewer et al, no: I don't see that. TBH, I hadn't started looking yet.
So...I'm making some assumptions. I have no concrete evidence of anything, other than having seen the delivery of KFX-enabled files to my own devices.
Hitch |
Well, my understanding is that if a book has automagical hyphenation, then it's KFX. Is that correct? I got the new Fire tablet (which I rather dislike, compared to the old one--much more sluggish, as if there were a membrane over the touch screen) just to check out "enhanced typesetting." Sure enough, most of my books do indeed have hyphenation (and it's not bad). So the KFX file MUST be delivered to me, right?
Okay, I suppose it could be on a separate shelf in Jeff Bezos's pool house, and his pool boy pulls it down for delivery to me.
I'm pretty sure it's not in the converted "mobi" that's available to us at Step 7 in the publishing process. So it must be added in the publishing workflow (if it is added -- not every one of my books is so designated) or later. (A little sweatshop out behind the pool house, lots of undocumented relatives of the pool boy?)
I'm enchanted by this whole KFX thing, and I'm sorry to see the KFX thread gone inactive. I wish I had the chops to pick at it and unravel it.