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Originally Posted by AlanHK
Amazon has a preview on their site when I submit a file. That should be post-conversion, I hope.
Anyway, no one has complained so far.
I notice books made by, e.g. Vellum, often have SVG graphics. The coding is pretty painful to read, but it does seem to work.
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No, the Amazon preview is now useless. Only buying a copy of the book for an ancient pre KK3 (or DXG) gives true idea of mobi/KF7. With later Kindles you get azw3 /KF8 via download for USB transfer from Manage my Content and Devices, but all but the oldest azw3 compatible models give the rather different KFX if you use WiFi/Mobile/Cell built in on Kindle.
Assuming it's not fixed layout, the epub2 upload with any pagebreak starting a new HTML file works best to give an azw3 very like the epub. Sometimes images on a PW3 were the wrong size, but I think we have cracked that now.
We proof via epub2, so the Wordproccessor file for that is the master. That is copied and reformatted and styles edited for paper (so only after ebook 100% verified) in the Wordprocessor and Export to PDF used for paper publishing.
Then any revision that does unfortunately happen is done in the WP file for making an epub, and proofed on a Kobo. When done, the changes are copied into the file used to export the PDF and the PDF is proofed again either on 10.3″ Kobo Elipsa or on the 23″ 4K HDR desktop screen.
The only paper are the samples/proofs of the finished paper editions. Finally now with improved PDF proofing on eink and big screen those don't need revised. The high speed duplex colour laser is now only used for knitting patterns (apparently the 10" Tablet doesn't suit!).
Long ago we'd print even drafts on paper. The ereader and annotation back via Calibre killed that even with Paperwhite 3.
We might print 4 sheets with crop marks in duplex as a final check before PDF upload. Check registration of body text, headers & footers. Certainly only paper can show if something wrong on registration.