It is available for all modern Windows and Mac editions, and it doesn't ask for any special tools or services, nor does it use a significant amount of disk space or processing power. Kindle Previewer is absolutely free, and you can have it up and running in no time. The software can help you accurately format your books for the Kindle or other devices, so you won't disappoint your readers with shoddy alignment. It supports the latest typographic and layout improvements that come with Enhanced Typesetting. If you want to make your book available for Amazon's Kindle, then you might want to get Kindle Previewer to see how it will look and if you'll need to make adjustments. I think there’s some more information on how to do fixed layout, but I avoid FXL like a plague.The contents of a book may look different on certain devices than it does in its printed version. The new Kindle Publishing Guidelines haven’t changed much. I usually design for the Kindle Fire in mind, but that’s just us. The dropcap CSS on Kindle Fire looks great, but it comes out sort of weird on Kindle Touch/Paperwhite. One lousy thing about the new Kindlegen build is there is still no way to apply different styles to the different KF8 devices. The Kindle Fire HD preview is almost exactly the same as the old Kindle Fire and Kindle Paperwhite is almost like Kindle Touch in the way it renders CSS declarations. This will probably encourage people, including our shop, to think twice about the images they choose or forcing certain types of font colors. One nice thing on the previewer is you can now preview it with the black or sepia background. Just tried it out for a while on some eBooks and both KindleGen and the new Kindle Previewer work great. Support for Japanese, including Vertical Text & MangaĪre there any features in the Kindle software updates that you are excited to see? Is there anything else that should have been on this list?.Publisher Font: Read the book in the publisher suggested font.It includes more information on Fixed Layout (FXL), dictionaries, and CSS for the Kindle Fire 8 (KF8) format.Īmazon has also updated their Kindle app for iOS to version 3.4. Update: The Amazon Kindle Publishing Guide has been updated to version 2012.5. Enables Single click to switch between devices within a group.īoth updates can be downloaded from the Kindle Format 8 page. *) Provides device groups namely Kindle for eInk, Kindle for Tablets and Kindle for iOS. *) Support for changing background color in Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD skins. *) Preview support for fixed layout books in both portrait and landscape orientations (when orientation lock is not specified in book) in Kindle Paperwhite viewing mode *) Preview support for fixed layout books with virtual panels & double page spreads (Kindle Paperwhite) *) Japanese vertical writing mode support in Kindle Paperwhite skin The updated Kindle Previewer 2.7 software includes: *) Data URI support for images and embedded fonts so that they can be referred directly in HTML and CSS files *) Added Mobi7 support for HTML tags with multiple classes (e.g.,) *) Added KF8 and M7 file size stats that will be displayed after conversion *) Enabled properties to support spine for fixed format content *) Enabled support for double page spreads *) Enabled support for facing pages (left or right) *) Enabled support for JP vertical rendering and multiple page writing modes (L to R, R to L) The updated KindleGen 2.7 software includes: Not to be outdone by Apple’s release of updates to iBooks and iBooks Author, the Amazon Kindle Publishing Team announced today the release of KindleGen 2.7 and Kindle Preview 2.7.
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