I also finished my testing. First of all:
KCC output is not compatible with this plugin. It require simple changes on my side but I don't see a reason to implement them yet.
Generally it is step in right direction but it looks like there are reasons why Fixed Layout option is not yet available in KP3 GUI.
- Lack of Panel View - apparently not yet implemented or require different syntax than Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines state.
- Fluctuations of image quality - Images in KF8 books look simply better. Some pages are little blurred. It look like resizing algorithm kicks in sometimes when it is not needed.
- Books are unstable - KFX renderer crash sometimes without any known reason.
- Preview of double page spreads is undocumented. I expected that is controlled somehow by page-spread-* itemref but I failed to get it working correctly.
In my opinion manga/comics currently published on Amazon in KFX format use different tool than KFXGenApp (or different version of it) and/or Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines are out-of-date.
We will see what next upgrades of KP3 will bring. I would love to put my hands on some official release of manga before it was handled to Amazon for KFX conversion. It is quite possible they don't use HTML at all.
For now there are too many unknowns and quirks to implement KFX output in KCC.
This post is based mostly on guesswork so I reserve the right to be completely wrong :-)
EDIT:
Experiments with
page-spread-* crash KFXGenApp. Syntax is 100% correct and consistent with Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines. It definitely looks like textbook example of
NotImplementedError :-)
Quote:
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Exception: Kindle Previewer error: Error(YJEpubAdapter):E00215: "Manga with panels is not supported ";
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