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@Hitch...
I used a banner-like image, that had text in it, which was 450 x 168 pixels in size with a resolution of 300 ppi. This absolute sizing in pixels wasn't exactly 75% of screen width. It was actually slightly smaller but I wasn't so concerned with exact size -- I was more concerned about the image quality for the KFX display. And if you want a more accurate image percentage sizing for all KFX images, you can do fine width adjustments by increasing or decreasing the baseline width value in the dialog in my queries plugin. To reduce the width of the image, increase the baseline value and to increase the size then just reduce the baseline value in the dialog. You could also change image width size of individual images by simply altering the percentage value in the image styling in situ.
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Okay, thanks. I'm going to
TRY to find some time to play with this.
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Yeah, me too. My answer to the KFX thing was to learn as much as I could about Kindle Create and thereby learn KFX as well. I know that you probably don't have time to learn KC but I've often wondered what you would say to a customer who brings you a single KPF file and then tells you that he/she accidentally deleted their master Word doc AND master KCB project file and can you help?(There have also been several instances of such problems on the KDP forum). There is an easy solution to that problem when you realize that that the KPF file is just a zipped version of your KC project file -- that contains both your final master KCB project file and original master Word doc. And I stumbled upon that solution completely by accident. It was one of those "I wonder what would happen if I try this..." moments. There's nothing written anywhere on the web about how to recover your master docs for Kindle Create. I found the solution completely by 'accident', which is really just another example of how poor the Kindle support documentation is for KC.
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Oddly enough--I actually do know that. It's about ALL I know about KC--but I too learned it completely by accident. How? A customer sent me his .kpf file and without thinking, I dl'ed it through my download accelerator. Just as it does with .pages files, it "thought" it was (yup!) a compressed file and it saved it as a .zip. I wasn't paying attention and double-clicked it--and sure as shoot, ta-da!, there was the archive! TOTAL accident.
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Yes, I can appreciate your frustration -- he's no help at all !! I'm just glad that I'm not a professional formatter who must argue against or succumb to every customer's whim and fancy. Honestly, that would drive me up the wall for sure!! To be honest about it, with this new KFX environment, I'm have a tough enough time just formatting my ebooks and books just for me...lol.
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Yeah....it's not easy. We deliberately moved to more actively marketing our print layout services, which I'd said we'd never do, when all the doofy and DIY tools came along. (I've been asked to betatest at least 10 different startup pieces of software/websites, all intended to be insta-eBook services, and I have yet to see one that's actually easier than "use styles, export HTML, open in Sigil," or even--ignoring the CSS--open your Word file in Atlantis, push button, but..)
I mean, TBH, I'd said since '09 that the day
would come, that pretty much "any" book could be made by pushing a button (with certain assumptions, of course, like styles, headings, yadda). That day
isn't here yet, but the reality of "type word file, make eBook" is pretty well here, now, if you JUST use Styles and Headings. If you have non-fic, well, then it's a bit more work. So...I always expected that the business would taper off and then effectively die out, leaving some MUCH smaller number of commercial formatters in existence.
What I hadn't foreseen was the vast percentage of the market that Createspace had. It's boggling, when I look at it now. Sure, I knew that they were doing a lot of books, but I never understood just HOW MANY. I know for a fact that at least one formatting biz that's been around a long time also was downright saved by the demise of CS and even we are busier than EVER and I mean, EVER.
And, of course, there are tens of thousands of more-complex books, that publishers and authors never thought that they'd be able to make, that they are now, which keeps businesses like mine busy.
But still...that day WILL come, eventually. Of course, I keep thinking that someone will come along and buy my shop, which would allow me to retire (woo!), before that day. :-)
Hitch