Converting to azk through KindlePreviewer - Page 3

EditorOne · 01-09-2015, 09:47 AM

Wow. Sitting on the sidelines is fun, although I'm not that much of a "wrassling" fan.

For what it's worth, I'm not going to worry that much about the relative value of this old iPad. It gives me a look at the iBooks version, which is looking good on an antique, so I think I'll risk it for the time being. And, for whatever reason, in finishing up, the azk conversion decided to work with Kindle Previewer, and my client tested it on her iPad and it looks fine.

Since iBooks is such a small part of the market now, it's probably a waste of your valuable time to keep up the rants on my behalf. I appreciate it, but all is goodl

And I agree, Hitch, Je suis Charlie.

Hitch · 01-09-2015, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by EditorOne

Wow. Sitting on the sidelines is fun, although I'm not that much of a "wrassling" fan.

For what it's worth, I'm not going to worry that much about the relative value of this old iPad. It gives me a look at the iBooks version, which is looking good on an antique, so I think I'll risk it for the time being. And, for whatever reason, in finishing up, the azk conversion decided to work with Kindle Previewer, and my client tested it on her iPad and it looks fine.

Since iBooks is such a small part of the market now, it's probably a waste of your valuable time to keep up the rants on my behalf. I appreciate it, but all is goodl

And I agree, Hitch, Je suis Charlie.

Hitch

dgatwood · 01-27-2015, 11:04 PM

I've had no luck using Kindle Previewer converting to AZK. Apparently, any book that contains SVG just errors out when in iOS output mode. You may be running into the same issue. I reported it to Amazon. You should do the same. If enough people scream at them about it, they might just do something about the problem.

Hitch · 01-28-2015, 01:50 AM

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Originally Posted by dgatwood

I've had no luck using Kindle Previewer converting to AZK. Apparently, any book that contains SVG just errors out when in iOS output mode. You may be running into the same issue. I reported it to Amazon. You should do the same. If enough people scream at them about it, they might just do something about the problem.

Hmmmm....I wasn't aware that KF7 supported SVG. Does it? Because K4iOS is definitely KF7, not KF8. Does that help you?

Hitch

DaleDe · 01-28-2015, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Hitch

Hmmmm....I wasn't aware that KF7 supported SVG. Does it? Because K4iOS is definitely KF7, not KF8. Does that help you?

Hitch

The AZK version definitely has features beyond KF7. It is nothing like mobi format. See our wiki.

Hitch · 01-28-2015, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by DaleDe

The AZK version definitely has features beyond KF7. It is nothing like mobi format. See our wiki.

Dale:

I know what is stated. However, my definite experience is that most of the formatting elements/features are displayed in KF7, not KF8, regardless of what anyone asserts. Most media-queries are ignored, utterly, or worse, BOTH are displayed (both the KF7 and KF8 elements).

Hitch

dgatwood · 01-29-2015, 02:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Hitch

Hmmmm....I wasn't aware that KF7 supported SVG. Does it? Because K4iOS is definitely KF7, not KF8. Does that help you?

I believe you're correct. And the SVG content is all wrapped by <div class="kf8onlyblock" ...> tags, which are defined in an @media amzn-mobi media query as display: none. So the previewer's AZK conversion code should have been stripping out the SVG code entirely when converting for iOS.

In short, it's a bug in their toolchain. They're not aggressively stripping based on media queries, and then their code is freaking out when it doesn't know how to convert something that won't get shown anyway.

I reported it to Amazon a couple of weeks ago.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hitch

I know what is stated. However, my definite experience is that most of the formatting elements/features are displayed in KF7, not KF8, regardless of what anyone asserts. Most media-queries are ignored, utterly, or worse, BOTH are displayed (both the KF7 and KF8 elements).

If that's the case, then it's a serious bug, because that would make it impossible to create content that works correctly in KF8, KF7, and AZK unless you literally dumb everything down to KF7 levels, or very nearly so.

Not that I had great confidence in Amazon before, but what confidence I had is rapidly waning.

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01-09-2015, 09:47 AM	#31
EditorOne Jus' Learnin' Posts: 50 Karma: 5618 Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Tucson, AZ Device: none	Wow. Sitting on the sidelines is fun, although I'm not that much of a "wrassling" fan. For what it's worth, I'm not going to worry that much about the relative value of this old iPad. It gives me a look at the iBooks version, which is looking good on an antique, so I think I'll risk it for the time being. And, for whatever reason, in finishing up, the azk conversion decided to work with Kindle Previewer, and my client tested it on her iPad and it looks fine. Since iBooks is such a small part of the market now, it's probably a waste of your valuable time to keep up the rants on my behalf. I appreciate it, but all is goodl And I agree, Hitch, Je suis Charlie.

01-27-2015, 11:04 PM	#33
dgatwood Curmudgeon Posts: 629 Karma: 1623086 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: iPad, iPhone, Nook Simple Touch	I've had no luck using Kindle Previewer converting to AZK. Apparently, any book that contains SVG just errors out when in iOS output mode. You may be running into the same issue. I reported it to Amazon. You should do the same. If enough people scream at them about it, they might just do something about the problem.