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Springbok · 08-20-2021, 01:13 AM

Thanks for keeping this useful plugin alive. I wonder however if you could add one extra option to reduce number of steps in a workflow for other foreign language users.

You documentation states that the plugin is limited to ebooks in a language Amazon supports (not a big list unfortunately). I can easily bypass this language limitation by doing the following:
1) Edit the calibre metadata to temporarily change the language setting to the one that Amazon supports eg. English
2) Run the kfx conversion
3) Change calibre language setting back to the original.

If you run the plugin without these language changes Kindle Preview produces an error.

Will it be a big effort to add the target language setting in the plugin itself (eg. KFX Output)? As I mentioned before it would simplify my workflow. I am looking for a similar solution that Doitsu has done in the kindlegen plugin in Sigil. It also uses Amazon engine inside.

08-20-2021, 01:13 AM	#1090
Springbok Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2018 Device: Kindle Touch	Thanks for keeping this useful plugin alive. I wonder however if you could add one extra option to reduce number of steps in a workflow for other foreign language users. You documentation states that the plugin is limited to ebooks in a language Amazon supports (not a big list unfortunately). I can easily bypass this language limitation by doing the following: 1) Edit the calibre metadata to temporarily change the language setting to the one that Amazon supports eg. English 2) Run the kfx conversion 3) Change calibre language setting back to the original. If you run the plugin without these language changes Kindle Preview produces an error. Will it be a big effort to add the target language setting in the plugin itself (eg. KFX Output)? As I mentioned before it would simplify my workflow. I am looking for a similar solution that Doitsu has done in the kindlegen plugin in Sigil. It also uses Amazon engine inside.