[tomsem]

Originally Posted by jhowell

From the Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines version 2025.1 section 13 (Creating Fixed-Layout Books Without Pop-Ups):



That needs to be present in the OPF of the EPUB.

Thanks much!


[update:]
So while I can get Kindle Previewer to open and preview (looks mostly correct), at least in this case, the exported MOBI does not render properly when side-loaded. Moreover KindleUnpack cannot split it into AZW3 & Mobi.

With the same ePub, Send To Kindle reports an error and the document it delivers is unreadable/scrambled up (it tries converting to reflowable format and sends 'failure' email).

Fixed layout ePub without positioned text (e.g. 'comics') are also converted to re-flowable AZW3 by Send To Kindle: you can 'highlight' or make notes on the images, for example. and with the apps, display 2 pages in landscape (but spreads will not join up). Maybe that's 'good enough' in some cases, but bottom line is that it's not as good as just consuming the ePub directly.

I do not know of a tool that can convert fixed layout ePub with embedded fonts and positioned text directly to AZW3 and have it render correctly when side-loaded. Or to PDF, for that matter.

So it goes!