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Originally Posted by tomsem
I managed to write a script to make a copy of the image files with the proper sequential order, from which I was able to create ePub & CBZ with KCC, and KFX (with added ToC, facing pages, and panel view) with Kindle Create and KFX Output plugin.
Direct conversation to KFX didn't produce a KFX that supported facing pages in landscape. Maybe @jhowell can add that for fixed layout ePub conversion; I'll ask about this on the KFX output plugin forum.
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Ironically I think the cleanest workflow for pure image content will start with KFX, when available. Then use
From KFX to generate CBZ, import those images to Kindle Create, add ToC, add panel view, make sure there are no facing pages issues, export to KPF, convert back to KFX and then From KFX to ePub, CBZ, or PDF. Save the original KFX in ZIP just in case.
Kindle Previewer (as used by KFX plugins) seems to preserve everything in the KPF, so one winds up with more functional KFX than Amazon delivers (typically there is no real ToC, existence of panel view is not a given, page flip does not always include multi-thumbnail view, etc). And the ePubs it creates seem to do well in the wild.
At least in my experiments so far, there is no particular advantage to CBZ, except that my PocketBook insists on a 1/8" margin for ePub. It's nice to have a ToC as well. The CBZ's created with From KFX don't have proper page turn direction, but I assume it's easy to fix that. Clara Colour displays KePub edge to edge. But neither seem to support facing pages in landscape mode.
Most of the comics/manga I've imported to calibre started as AZW3, but I may need to go back and check to see just what they and the converted ePub look like, and for many of those I did not bother creating ToC.