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Originally Posted by jhowell
calibre is a great tool, but not the best one to use to prepare and preview a Kindle book for publication.
Amazon's Kindle Previewer can convert your EPUB into a Master MOBI suitable for publication and show how it will appear on a variety of devices, including those that support enhanced typesetting. |
I have to say that the ePUB3 outputs that I've seen from Serif Page Plus have not been exactly conducive to good ebook formatting. Much like InDesign, they seem to assume that they are outputting fixed-layout, which, of course, is a) the format of last resort, and b) utterly and totally unusable for making a fixed-layout MOBI. At least 2x weekly, I get an inquiry from some frustrated person, screaming about how they were given a "perfect ePUB!" from their print designer and yet, when they upload it to Kindle, they get a jumbled mess. At that point, I get to give them the "every device and retailer have their own proprietary fixed-layout format" conversation. What I've seen of SPP so far is that it does the same thing.
Now, about the "entire page" question--no. That's the honest and simple answer. That's a PDF, not an eBook. Think of it this way--do you really want the same "one page" to display on someone's phone, in landscape, on the screen, if that's what they're using to view it? No, right? Well...that's the beauty--and the occasional frustration--of ebooks. They're meant to adjust for the environment--one file to rule them all, so to speak.
But your images should not be halving. That's the Calibre-from-the-wrong-source-file effect.
Try KP3, but...I suspect the problem is in the ePUB.
Hitch