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Originally Posted by Hitch
O.M.G, do not get me started on my PPW and PPW family eInk rant, about images that are meant to be larger than 50% of the width of the screen (49%, actually) and 100% of the width of the screen. I reported this problem to KDP in...2014? 2015? Foolishly, at first, I thought it was a Kindle Previewer 2.9xx problem but then I suddenly had this hunch and sure as scat, the issue exists on the real devices, too.
In all of those, if you have any image meant to be 55% of the width of the screen, KABLAMMO!, it will be 100% of the width of the screen. That's been a bug and glitch for years and years now.
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Thanks. I was wondering was I doing something stupid, and it DID seem to depend on the image size on the PW3, yet the 167 dpi KK3 in KF8 mode seemed to work like the 300 dpi Libra and the slightly lower resolution Original H2O (227 dpi?). I was a bit baffled.
We allow maybe 2 or 3 months now between "thinking" an ebook is polished and the actual release date. So it gives time to upload epub2 to KDP and download their mysterious "preview sample". If there is something stunning new in terms of a style we also download to DXG, KK3 and PW3 from UK & USA Amazon on release and double check.
We've never had a problem with epub2 uploads (Apple, B&N, Scribd, Kobo via Smashwords and Google Books), only with KF7 or KF8.
Originally we sent "docx" to Amazon (the same one used by Calibre) and then on their conversion the page breaks vanished one day on a new ebook upload. They couldn't figure it and told us to upload whatever epub2 we send to Smashwords and Google. They didn't list epub as an upload format originally.
The Smashwords "doc" conversion is poor, so we upload epub2 and the Calibre "Dual Mobi" as Smashwords has no idea what Kindle model a customer has.