[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Oxford-eBooks

Okay, I used the Send to Kindle tool to send the MOBI to an iPad an opened it in the Kindle APP there... No SGVs, gradients border radii (radiusses??)
Presumably, that tool pulls the AZK out of the mobi and deliveres it as if it wee coming through the normal consumer channels?

NO, it doesn't.

All looks good on the Kindle Previewer3 as prescribed by Amazon.
Yup, using the latest KindleGen as well.

KP3 is worthless, other than for KPF files. The line-heights are UTTERLY effed-up.

But the big middle-finger from them in the publshing guide talking about SGVs, supported tages ect is the little line that goes:

9.4.12. .... .... .... SVGs are not supported in iOS.
Enhanced Typesetting does not
support SVG images.

I really MUST be getting the wrong end of the stick somewhere becasue I'm not seeing everyone else raging about this and loads of happy articles about using SVGs in their content. Did I turn over two pages somewhere???

Why the finger? They told you, right? And why WOULD everyone else be "raging?" Most coders still aren't using SVG, because we're making books for commercial production--and given that millions of KF7 devices are still around...well.

Originally Posted by Oxford-eBooks

... well. After jumping through the assorted hoops of uploading an AZK to the iPad. It all works. Now, this is really what I'd hoped any prayed for.



So what was that note in the documentation about?
And why won't Send to Kindle let me send AZKs?

(getting all my moans out before the new year)

What do you mean, what was the note in the documentation about? It means, if you have SVG images in your file, ET isn't supported. Did you mean something else? Your book won't have hyphenation and the other wee goodies that come along with ET, but...{shrug}. That's the trade-off, right? You get to use SVGs--except for the KF7 customers, (presumably, you put in hidden jpegs or whatever for them, right?), and you don't get ET.

NOTHING but sideloading through the hell of iTunes supports AZK, and, honestly, that's been the case for the last two years. Hell, maybe three. Is it three, Tex? Do you remember?

Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

A lot of those articles just happily ignore any mention of old MOBI/KF7.

Oh, look how beautiful KF8 and Enhanced Typography is! Works on the newest Kindles and/or latest device X? Nothing else exists!

Yes. That's one of the things that constantly gets up my nose. How nice for some people, that they can blithely ignore KF7s. (I'm NOT talking about anyone here--had this client, this past week, read on...) Just had a client like this. I must have explained about KF7 at least 5x. He didn't care if the book was crap on those devices--as if the people who use them are TOO STUPID or TOO POOR or TOO THIS to count. Very aggravating. I forced the issue (as that's part of my obligation to Amazon), but...ururururughghghghggggghhhh.

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