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Originally Posted by slowsmile
@Hitch and @st_albert...
@st_albert...I also really don't hold anyone responsible for perhaps not knowing that KF8 % images may now be displayed on KF7s. This is a bad way to go. To my way of thinking, Hitch and the folks on this forum are all pretty knowledgeable about Kindle requirements, formatting etc. And if anyone is responsible I would say that it's probably the Kindle team for not telling anybody about this possible change(think about the non-existent Kindle LITB info for instance).
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For what it's worth, I just ran the following experiment.
I took a dual-format mobi file (from kindlegen) just as we would submit to KDP. I split it using kindleunpack (stand-alone version, not the Calibre plugin) into a mobi7 .mobi file and a mobi8 .azw3 file, and tried each of them separately in the kindle previewer, version 2.8.
the "mobi7" file looked reasonable in DX, Kindle3, and paperwhite, with roughly the same look and feel. the "mobi8" file looked good in Pw and K3 but the DX emulation had lots of problems in formatting paragraphs, page breaks, and so on. The images were displayed, but not the way we intended.
So I conclude that the DX emulator cannot "cheat" and read the mobi8 file from a dual-format mobi in order to look good. Unfortunately I can't say whether the DX emulation, when reading the azw3 file, messed up in the same way as a real-workd DX would.
BTW, the book in question was published in 2011, when IIRC there was no kf8 format in production yet. In the epub, the images were coded like so:
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<p class="center"><img alt="images/image002.jpg" src="../Images/image002.jpg" style="width:77%"/></p>
and were tweaked in the epub, then converted with kindlegen (cmd line version, not the previewer), and tested on a real-world K3 (which hadn't been upgraded for kf8).
All of which makes me very grateful that of the couple of hundred ebooks I've formatted since then, only 2 or 3 have had images other than the cover
Albert