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Originally Posted by BrianHayesMusic
DNSB & Turtle91,
These are very thorough answers, I can't thank you enough. Maybe with a fresh morning brain, I'll be able to get this done, myself, with the help of your explanations. But even if I can not, I have a guy I can go to who speaks your language much better than I do. He's my go-to guy whenever I get stuck when building / modifying my websites. (I built those myself, too.) It's amazing what I am able to accomplish with the help of folks like you, me being such a complete newbie and a hack. Thank you, again!
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Okay, gang:
Let's sort out some of what's going on here. Yes, B&N has a fixed-layout option, PagePerfect, but just like NookKids', the format is a) proprietary and b) more importantly, cannot be uploaded through the NookPress portal. So, that's a non-starter.
Moreover, even if this ePUB were to be made in InDesign, and exported as a fixed-layout ePUB3, you can't upload that at NookPress's portal, either.
So, none of those are options. Not PagePerfect, not NookKids, not FXL ePUB3.0.
(N.b.: if you use a distributor that distributes to Nook, you CAN upload a fixed-layout ePUB3.0 file. Now, some will bitch that you shouldn't/can't, like IngramSpark, but the important part is, the file works at B&N.)
The KKBC (Kindle Kids' Book Creator) simply does what someone here mentioned--it slaps a "wrapper" around a PDF, that encases the ePDF and allows it to display on Kindles. I feel compelled to add that for this particular book, myself, I would have used Kindle Create instead, because KC's output format, KPF, for this, allows page-zooming and the MOBI created by KKBC does NOT. Given the subject matter, I'd go for the KC-generated .kpf file and upload that over the old one. (Just my advice).
The only way forward that I see here is to either a) do this ePUB file manually--creating HTML pages, most likely, for each page (as a jpg or whatever). If you laid this all out in INDD, you'll get an ePUB 3.0 fixed-layout as the result and see above about that (no fly zone).
And maybe I'm nuts, but I don't see the KKBC MOBI converting to ePUB worth a damn, but given you're discussing using Calibre, you can try it. The time investment to see an initial result would be nominal, but...don't forget, your ePUB also has to pass ePUBcheck and my thinking here is that there's no way that would work.
That's my $.02, FWIW.
Hitch