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Originally Posted by angharad09
I'm editing an azw3 file in Calibre and looking at the results in Kindle Previewer and Kindle. Sometimes even when something seems to work in Kindle Previewer, it's still problematic in Kindle.
So I'm wondering, should I even be using Kindle Previewer?
or, should I keep fiddling until I get happy results in both?
or is each maybe useful in a different way (and if so, what is each program's strong point?)?
I'm using Kindle Previewer 3 and Kindle 1.25.2 on a Mac.
Both appear to be up to date (I just downloaded Previewer yesterday).
(If it makes a difference, the issue where I noticed the discrepancy is image size. But if that's not relevant to understanding the [apparent] previewer discrepancies, please ignore.)
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IF you are testing your book on a Paperwhite, or PPW family device, like Voyage, Oasis, etc. oh YES INDEEDY, you will see a huge difference in image size.
To this day, the bloody PPW family of devices and the rendering software seems to have a bug. That is, if you have an image that you need to be, let's say, 52% of the width of the screen, you're HOSED. Because the PPW family will render it at 100%. Anything over 50%, is always rendered at 100%, no matter what lies Previewer tells you.
OTHER than that, and line-heights, however (and making it appear that images will be vertically resized, to fit on a "page" or screen, if there's also text that's flowed to that screen, which doesn't happen with real devices), Previewer is reasonably accurate.
Offered FWIW.
Hitch