Thread: [Conversion Plugin] KFX Input
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Old 05-27-2023, 11:59 PM   #552
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
There are two major types of fixed layout EPUB.

The fixed layout EPUB format produced by Adobe InDesign positions each individual word on the page and depends on the font characteristics being known precisely for it to work. It is equivalent to a PDF produced from a Word document, but with much less reader support than PDF.

The fixed layout EPUB produced by the KFX Input plugin from a print replica book is much more like a PDF produced from scanning book pages into OCR software. Instead of the words being rendered on the page in a particular font it contains rasterized page images with an invisible overlay of text. That allows text selection and dictionary lookup but results in a large file that does not look great when zoomed in.



Fixed layout EPUB is a solution looking for a problem. PDF is almost always a better format to use.



No it is not possible. Conversion of EPUB to KFX is performed by the command line interface that is built into Amazon's Kindle Previewer software. However that will not convert PDF to KFX. PDF to KFX conversion can be done using Amazon's Kindle Create software but that only has a GUI interface and cannot be invoked by the plugin.
Thanks!

It's not clear why FXL had to be crap, or why the limitations have not been addressed after all this time. IIRC it was supposed to replace PDF for digital reading and using the same open standards (XHTML/CSS/SVG etc) was supposed to confer some advantage.

The accessibility requirements should have been there from the beginning.
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