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Originally Posted by tomsem
These evidently were Fixed Layout EPUBs that the publisher submitted to Kindle store, and they get converted to fixed layout KFX when downloaded to Kindles or the Kindle apps. These are sorta 'coffee table books- whose print editions would be larger than letter size pages, with 2 page spreads.
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I will take a look at the book you mentioned when I have time, but I doubt that I will be able to do much to improve how it converts. My goal is to make the EPUB produced by this plugin reflect whatever is in the KFX file as much as possible. If that KFX file has mangled formatting then it is beyond my scope of work to fix it, except in rare cases where there is an obvious and simple way to do it.
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Originally Posted by tomsem
However converting for use on Kindle platform is proving onerous. Send To Kindle does not have good support for fixed layout ePub, in this case it totally mangled it.
Calibre got to 47% and seems to be stuck there. I finally killed the job after 3 hours.
Kindle Previewer puked on it, without even producing error log.
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Sounds like a case of garbage in/garbage out. Amazon only supports a very specific subset of fixed layout as (poorly) documented in their Kindle Publishing Guidelines.