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slowsmile · 12-06-2018, 01:38 AM

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@Hitch...

"Are you trying to say that you think if Jane Doe uses KC, for her Word file (let's say a novel, for the ease of discussion) that her final KFX file is jpgs? Pages that are jpgs of text?"

No. If you load Kindle Create with a Word doc, as you've described above, then you will always get a reflowable ebook -- not a KFX ebook. In such a reflowable ebook all text will not be represented as images but will be formatted as html text.

William, I am 99% sure that's wrong. When you load KC with a Word file, and build an eBook therefrom, you'll get a KFX file. A reflowable KFX, yes, but a KFX file nonetheless.

All I know is what I've seen and discovered while testing KPF outputs from Kindle Create. To me KFX means "Kindle's own proprietary version of fixed format." I also think that KFX outcomes are bad -- way too many downsides as you yourself have said elsewhere. To me, KFX(KPF created with a PDF) isn't even worth considering -- it's the bogey-man that will lead you unknowingly down the road to a very poor upload result on KDP.

However, creating a reflowable KPF file using a Word doc is a different story. KC is the only app I know that allows the user to both format and convert their Word doc to a Kindle ebook with no need of any html knowledge. This route will also give you an ebook that has at least some individualized interior styling. Whereas if you upload a Word doc directly to KDP then all you get, in terms of interior styling, is a single font clone whose interior styling looks exactly like 5 million other ebooks on Amazon.

I've also found that converting a reflowable KPF file(created from a Word doc) to epub format using JP Howell's excellent KFX Input plugin for Calibre to be quick and easy, with minimal cleanup or additional formatting needed to pass muster with Epubcheck. This also dispels the rather wearisome complaint that you can only ever upload a KPF file to KDP. If you can convert that KPF file to epub then, with only a little extra formatting, you should also be able to upload that epub to any epub retailer or aggregator without problems. And, being a dedicated epubber, this would always be my own preferred route.

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slowsmile Witchman Posts: 628 Karma: 788808 Join Date: May 2013 Location: Philippines Device: Android S5	Quote: Originally Posted by slowsmile View Post @Hitch... "Are you trying to say that you think if Jane Doe uses KC, for her Word file (let's say a novel, for the ease of discussion) that her final KFX file is jpgs? Pages that are jpgs of text?" No. If you load Kindle Create with a Word doc, as you've described above, then you will always get a reflowable ebook -- not a KFX ebook. In such a reflowable ebook all text will not be represented as images but will be formatted as html text. William, I am 99% sure that's wrong. When you load KC with a Word file, and build an eBook therefrom, you'll get a KFX file. A reflowable KFX, yes, but a KFX file nonetheless. All I know is what I've seen and discovered while testing KPF outputs from Kindle Create. To me KFX means "Kindle's own proprietary version of fixed format." I also think that KFX outcomes are bad -- way too many downsides as you yourself have said elsewhere. To me, KFX(KPF created with a PDF) isn't even worth considering -- it's the bogey-man that will lead you unknowingly down the road to a very poor upload result on KDP. However, creating a reflowable KPF file using a Word doc is a different story. KC is the only app I know that allows the user to both format and convert their Word doc to a Kindle ebook with no need of any html knowledge. This route will also give you an ebook that has at least some individualized interior styling. Whereas if you upload a Word doc directly to KDP then all you get, in terms of interior styling, is a single font clone whose interior styling looks exactly like 5 million other ebooks on Amazon. I've also found that converting a reflowable KPF file(created from a Word doc) to epub format using JP Howell's excellent KFX Input plugin for Calibre to be quick and easy, with minimal cleanup or additional formatting needed to pass muster with Epubcheck. This also dispels the rather wearisome complaint that you can only ever upload a KPF file to KDP. If you can convert that KPF file to epub then, with only a little extra formatting, you should also be able to upload that epub to any epub retailer or aggregator without problems. And, being a dedicated epubber, this would always be my own preferred route. Last edited by slowsmile; 12-06-2018 at 03:19 AM.