03-06-2019, 03:13 PM | #1 |
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My first Kindle...is jumbled
I have completed a manuscript in Serif PagePlus. It is a book about landscape design and is mostly drawings originally done in autcad but converted to .png.
The layout is fairly simple, there are seventeen chapters with a page of thumbnails of the designs at the beginning of each chapter and the drawings represented by those thumbnails following. I used Serif PagePlus to publish to epub3 and opened the file in Calibre and converted it to .mobi and it mostly showed half pages. The links didn't work and many of the drawings were cut in half. Is there a way to format pages so an entire page will show up in whatever device is using it? I can put one design on each page and even on a phone each design will be viewable. The designs would not look right if they were chopped in half and the reader would have scroll to the next page to see the other half. Thanks Rick |
03-06-2019, 03:32 PM | #2 |
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03-06-2019, 04:40 PM | #3 |
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calibre is a great tool, but not the best one to use to prepare and preview a Kindle book for publication.
Amazon's Kindle Previewer can convert your EPUB into a Master MOBI suitable for publication and show how it will appear on a variety of devices, including those that support enhanced typesetting. |
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Now, about the "entire page" question--no. That's the honest and simple answer. That's a PDF, not an eBook. Think of it this way--do you really want the same "one page" to display on someone's phone, in landscape, on the screen, if that's what they're using to view it? No, right? Well...that's the beauty--and the occasional frustration--of ebooks. They're meant to adjust for the environment--one file to rule them all, so to speak. But your images should not be halving. That's the Calibre-from-the-wrong-source-file effect. Try KP3, but...I suspect the problem is in the ePUB. Hitch |
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03-11-2019, 04:56 AM | #5 | |
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Inkscape can make SVG. To just make an image into a full page SVG, in Sigil use InsertImageSVG https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=283333 SVG works in most epubs and Kindle AZW3, but not old KF7. |
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