![]() ![]() I originally used Cambria in many of my game theory payoff tables, but Cambria has a lot of numbers and letters with very thin lines. By extension, if your image contains words, be careful which font you use.You can’t control which lines disappear, but that will not matter much if no single line is crucial to the image as a whole. In other words, make your images as blunt as possible. If parts of your image contain lines that are only one or two pixels thick, those lines may magically disappear in the final version. To compress file sizes, KDP evidently eliminates random lines of pixels from your images. However pretty your image looks on your computer screen, it is not going to look nearly as pretty once you have uploaded it. Images were very clearly an afterthought. mobi file extension) were created to display text. Accept it now, and understand you will likely have to do some experimentation to fix these problems later. You will become unbelievably frustrated at some point. Your document size will suddenly explode. ![]() You will think you are doing everything right, then the Kindle uploader will find a way to completely screw you over. Here are the most important time/money saving tips: I am writing this post to impart my knowledge on you. Personally, I have completely redone the images in my textbook Game Theory 101: The Complete Textbook at least three times now, most recently because the way Kindle compresses images changed without any notice. The official KDP FAQs are laughably underdeveloped here, basically telling you that the four most common image types are supported (gee, thanks!) and not much else. So this Kindle Create app has a converter that also uses efficient file compression.Formatting images for Kindle is a huge drag. When I converted the same ebook as a pdf doc with cover to kbc - the total file size was 1.4 Mb. *When I converted my Word doc without cover(its an old ebook on amazon now) to kbc - the total file size was 1.2 Mb. *Kindle Create Help documentation is fairly thorough and easy to follow. *Gives a reliable and quick conversion using Advanced Typesetting. *You can also use their Template to create your ebook from scratch. *You can test your ebook in-app using their modified version of Kindle Previewer 3.8 Beta. *You can also directly edit your text in the app in Text View. *You can also restyle your ebook text just using point and click. *Easily and manually allows you to create a TOC, add chapter subtitles and add separators to your Kindle ebook. *Automatically detects and splits chapter heading styles according to heading layout. ![]() ![]() *You can use a Word doc, docx or a PDF file in Kindle Create. In any case, I am still playing with the app, and so are authors on the KDP support forums and Chris McMullen.Īt least one of the authors on the KDP forums is really impressed with the app: (Or maybe the app just didn’t want to cooperate with me?) You can give it either a DOC or a PDF file, and once it ingests the file you can edit the text, format the chapter and section headings, embed audio and video clips, and make other changes.įrom what I have seen this morning, what you can do with an ebook project is limited by the format you started with the audio and video clips, for example, can be embedded when you start with a PDF but not a DOC. it does not make an ebook you can read yourself. Kindle Create, on the other hand, was built to make all those things, as well as novels.Įdit: And just to be clear, this app makes a file you can upload to the Kindle store. Those apps produced picture books, PDF textbooks, and comics books, variously. It is called Kindle Create, and was released this week for Windows and macOS.Īmazon has released a number of tools you can use to make Kindle ebooks, including an epub conversion tool as well as Kindle Kids Book Creator, Kindle Textbook Creator, and Kindle Comics Creator. Kindle Create Lets You Make a Kindle eBook From a Word FileĪmazon has launched a new tool that lets you make an ebook out of a Word file. ![]()
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