Kindle for Apple formatting not playing nicely...

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Originally Posted by jhowell

That depends on the author/publisher having a large assortment of devices for testing including many no longer sold by Amazon. It would work for you but not for the vast majority. An online preview with accurate emulation of the various device types would be more useful.

Yes, why can't they do it?
Why can't they have an off line preview that actually is viable? It could run on iOS & Android tablets, mac, Windows and Linux and properly simulate any Amazon device, even a Scribe, if the screen is large enough. I used to write simulators in VB6 that emulated actual VFD and LCD screens of various sizes. Sadly the VB6 elements used didn't exist in VB.net or C#, so I stopped writing those as I'd have to do the display emulation from scratch. I did look at moving to Java or QT and wrote a demo that worked on Mac, Linux and Windows Vista using Java, which followed the native desktop theme.

You exactly make my point about the need for a better preview.
You don't actually need a large assortment, but in essence you are correct, you need a selection or even a test purchase is useless.