01-08-2019, 01:36 PM | #1 | |
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Version 3.29 of Amazon's Kindle Previewer was just released and the updated manual for that version has the following statement:
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Is this something new or is it just something that I never noticed before? Last edited by jhowell; 01-09-2019 at 10:46 AM. Reason: Not KDP! |
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01-09-2019, 09:19 AM | #2 |
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Omigosh, Simplified Chinese is supported? How fine.
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01-09-2019, 10:33 AM | #3 |
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Actually, I was wrong.
It is supported by the Kindle Previewer, but not listed on the KDP Supported Languages page. My mistake was assuming that the Previewer languages were equivalent to KDP languages. (I have made a correction to the first post.) Last edited by jhowell; 01-09-2019 at 10:45 AM. |
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Amazon has pulled version 3.29 of the Kindle Previewer and gone back to version 3.28 on the download page. I guess there was a problem with the new release.
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01-12-2019, 06:05 AM | #5 |
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Thanks for the update!
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01-14-2019, 01:59 PM | #6 |
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Kindle Previewer 3.29.1 is now available. Amazon has updated the documentation to remove the mention of Traditional Chinese added in version 3.29. Perhaps they are not yet ready to announce support for that language.
———————— It turns out that version 3.29.1 is the same as 3.28.1, with only the version number changed so that it causes those who have already installed 3.29 to actually revert to the older version when they update. Last edited by jhowell; 01-14-2019 at 03:54 PM. |
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It has been four months since Amazon released a version of the Kindle Previewer that mentioned support for Traditional Chinese in the manual and then quickly pulled it. Now they have officially announced support for it.
Press release: Amazon Launches Support for Traditional Chinese Books on Kindle |
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Again, thanks for the update!
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We have a couple of Chinese-language clients, so this will be welcome news to them. Hitch |
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06-08-2019, 04:59 PM | #11 |
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The Guidelines say:
>Format your eBook with content that’s read from left to right (LTR), not right to left (RTL). Does the publishing workflow then reverse the reading order, or are Sinophones so adept that they can read either way? Most of my experience is with Japanese texts, and there I have learned that horizontal is now apparently as acceptable as vertical, but AFAIK books are always right-to-left (and "back" to front!). |
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I have seen signs that Amazon is working on supporting vertical layout for Traditional Chinese, but I suspect that won't be ready for six months or more. (Support for Traditional Chinese is called tcn-reflow-language internally and a new feature called tcnvertical-reflow-language is partially supported in the latest version of the Kindle Previewer.) |
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