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Originally Posted by jhowell
If you want to create your own print-replica KFX for markup on the Scribe the easiest way is by send-to-kindle of a PDF to a Scribe.
If you want to produce fixed-layout KFX yourself without involving Amazon’s servers you can do that by using Amazon’s Kindle Create to produce a print replica book from your PDF, export that in KPF format, and then use the CLI mode of my KFX Output plugin to convert that KPF to KFX. (Conversion using calibre won’t work because it does not support fixed layout.) That will produce a KFX file that you can sideload to a Scribe via USB.
I doubt that it would be possible to export the annotated file so this would probably not be very useful other than as an experiment.
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Thanks, at least it's possible to experiment, nice to know of that CLI option. I am curious about the internals.
In theory they could construct one from page links near the start of the book that look like a table of contents. It seems like a little ML could handle that task pretty easily, and it would definitely make the experience of navigating more pleasant than a plain PDF is normally, a selling point and of course consistent with Print Replica from Kindle Store. They do generate a default TOC with Go to page at least.
In some cases creating an ePub fixed layout instead might work. You can get TOC that way, but hyperlinks don't survive import, and no text selection and therefore no annotation whatsoever. A pretty steep tradeoff.
But perhaps they'll find reasons to support this in the future. If you could add alt text to comic bubbles, for example, it would be accessible for screen readers, and maybe provide an anchor for annotation as well.