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On my Kindle the margins of that book are the same size as those found in Amazon purchased books in KFX format. It is working as expected.
You can change the conversion settings when producing KFX to try and make the results more to your liking by decreasing the margins using extra CSS. The Extra CSS box can be found in the conversion dialog in Styling tab of the Look & feel section. I was able to minimize the margins by adding the following: body {margin-left: -5% !important; margin-right: -5% !important;} Quote:
You can eliminate the gray background by removing "background-color: #fdfdfd;" in sytlesheet1.css of the EPUB. Looking that the internals of your EPUB, in my opinion the HTML/CSS coding is more appropriate for a web page than an e-book. That is going to lead to some odd behavior. |
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I found what I think is a bug in the plugin when converting a epub version of this into a KFX output, I don't know if the source was Compatible epub or Advanced epub, the problem is when converting the epub I used it turned only this ebook with its images, into black square box's.
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I have calibre updated to 7.7 and all my plugins are up to date.
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Also I went ahead and downloaded standard ebooks azw3 file of this ebook its smaller in size than the epub file, which is fine, I am using KindleUnpack plugin to make a epub (epub2 version) then I try metaguide epub on it, then convert that epub into kfx output to see if it causes the black images, instead of normal ones, in side the ebook itself, I know if the problem at that point might be that metaguide epub plugin if it is that plugin is going to get uninstall on my calibre. update information to the process in understanding the bug which I don't really understand still but was able to fix anyway?: converting azw3 downloaded from standard ebooks website then to epub with KindleUnpack plugin, then using metaguide epub plugin and that epub to kfx output seems to of worked, the Amazon Ember font was included to the KFX outputed ebook. below is a screenshot of the fixed ebook, again I used the azw3 source from the standard ebooks website, using the campatible epub source seems to cause the images to turn into black box's which again, I don't know why but the azw3 file outputed to an epub file using KindleUnpack then using metaguide and then using convert in calibre with included font, to KFX format seems to of fixed my problem, again it was only one ebook that I noticed this bug in and I am still not sure why the epub file causes this bug, I am guessing there is some code in its file, that causes this, also I do not see any quality changes with its images, I don't think you lose quality going from epub to kfx vs using azw3 to epub to kfx output, I think the images look about the same. I am fine if anyone wants to explain what caused this bug in the first place, at this point I have a working ebook file for my kindle with my own cover image on it, so I just will keep this info here if anyone can explain it? Website link to ebook in question https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/le...s/john-tenniel These two screenshots below are showing the bug using compatible epub from standard ebooks website, which was updated with cover image and metadata using polish book in calibre, then converting that epub with font included to kfx output and as you can see it caused black box affect onto the kfx output, but the above image showing azw3 to epub using KindleUnpack seems to of fixed this bug Spoiler:
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this is the png file fron Canva software, which I used to add text onto the source AI image bing image creator software page my oil painting prompt was a source for it. this is a cover image, I used bing image creator, and used Canva to add text to it, basically I had made my own personal ebook covers for some of my public domain ebooks. jpg image in calibre directory for this ebook https://www.canva.com/ the source that added to calibre is in png but it outputs it to a jpg image anyway for ebooks, which is fine since it makes the image file size smaller which is fine for ebooks, but the source also gets turned into a jpg image file on devianart also. when saving it from Canva the source is png with text it in, that's just how the process works that I used. this website also seems to take the png file and downgrade it to an jpg file as an attachment, the bigger sized Attached Thumbnails, should be the png file, it seems to of converted it in this forum. added link to png file below and I added full image here as spoiler so it will not take up too much space. Spoiler:
Last edited by KindleAZWorKFX; 03-19-2024 at 05:05 PM. Reason: bug is affacting all epub to mobi, azw3 and KFX formats from this ebooks standard ebooks from compatible epub source |
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I do not know what might have caused the problem. I am happy that you were able to work around it.
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Yes, thanks my fix worked, was not sure if the plugin needed some sort of patch, it could be a bug in Kindle previewer 3 software itself, if the problem is not in calibre or the KFX output plugin itself. Since I have no way of knowing what caused the image bug to make them into black boxes, anyway yes downloading the azw3 source from Standard eBooks website worked for me. For this one eBook then turning it into an ePub (2 version not an ePub 3) with KindleUnpack plugin in calibre worked for me, it seems that some code in the original Standard eBooks ePub for their compatible ePub is the cause of the bug that affects either KFX output plugin, or kindle previewer 3 itself and/or calibre windows x86-64 build version 7.7 might need a patch to fix this bug from whatever caused it, again just guessing where the problem might be since I don't know. https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/le...s/john-tenniel Last edited by KindleAZWorKFX; 03-19-2024 at 10:19 PM. Reason: spelling correction and edit of my reply. |
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@KindleAZWorKFX my guess is that the terrible code Standard Ebooks uses could be the problem.
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Source file cannot be read
I'm getting a source file cannot be read error while converting an epub to kfx. I've tried converting a bunch of files including the stand Frankenstein and none of them worked. I also tried running the cli and it still gives me the same error. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
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Version 2.8.0 - 22 May 2024
Detect Kindle Previewer versions up to 3.81.0. Remove unnecessary work around for conversion of Indian language books. For proper conversion the OPF and XHTML files must specify the language properly and the majority of text must be comprised of Unicode characters belonging to that language. |
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KFX output PI and calibredb
Using ver 2.8 with ver 7.12 to convert ePub to KFX and then use calibredb to extract and rename the ePub and the kfx files to two single flat folders:
export --progress --all --dont-save-cover --dont-write-opf --format kfx --single-dir --template {authors}-{series}{series_index:0>2s|[|]-}{title} --to-dir sDestination The epub files copy over quickly with just the progress percentage showing, but the kfx files seem to have some 'extra processing' and take longer. (see attachment) I was surprised by the extra processing since the conversion has been done in Calibre before the calibredb Is this extra processing necessary or is there a setting I missed? |
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