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Originally Posted by jhowell
I have a follow-up to this discussion from last year. I have started to see some examples of PDF Backed Fixed Layout in the Kindle for Android app. It is a new variant of KFX format produced for Kindle books published using a fixed-layout EPUB, such as those created by Apple Pages or Adobe InDesign. Currently those books are converted to fixed-layout KF8 format with varying results. One common problem is words running together or overlapping.
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Right and up until...well, the last few days that I know of, for
certain, if you upload an FXL ePUB, that's what happens, overlapping words, words & images, etc.
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For PDF Backed Fixed Layout the fixed-layout EPUB is converted to PDF and then that is used to produce Print Replica KFX format. I assume that this is intended to make those fixed-layout books function more consistently across devices and may also be part of a long term plan to replace the older Kindle formats with KFX.
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So, wait. Are we saying that this is the process through KC, (using a PDF-->>KC-->.kpf) or do you think that KDP is making a PDF, from the ePUB that was
uploaded, and then creating an FXL Kindle-PUB, for lack of a better term? That would be a whole 'other thang.
I mean, the from-PDF-KPFs (via KC) work. They work across all devices, NOT counting the eInks. I'm wondering...I mean, making a from-print-style PDF, from an FXL ePUB... would take some reverse engineering,
no?
Hitch