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See the section "From KFX" toolbar action in the first post of this thread for information on how you can avoid this error and convert the book to PDF instead of EPUB. |
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Version 2.15.0 - 28 Jun 2024
Produce a PDF outline from the book's table of contents when converting fixed layout books to PDF format. |
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BTW I'm finding a few more Print Replica books that include Kindle Scribe in supported device lists, and from a large publisher. This one is free: Measure, Integration & Real Analysis (Graduate Texts in Mathematics Book 282) SpringerOpen titles are all free. Not all of those in PR format include Scribe in supported devices, and I have not found any paid books from Springer that do (using PR is more the exception rather than the rule for their catalog). I guess this only proves that Scribe support can be added by any publisher using print replica format. It falls short of explaining why this practice is not a lot more common. I would guess it is just because they would have to update the listing for each of their books, and it's a manual process and not something they are used to doing. Last edited by tomsem; 06-28-2024 at 07:51 PM. |
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It may have something to do with maintaining copy protection for books of value. After all if a print replica book is available on Scribe a user can make an unobtrusive annotation on each page and use that to export the entire book as a DRM-free PDF.
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The irony is that Scribe ignores AZW4 entirely (with or without DRM removed). It does transfer successfully to a Fire tablet. The PDF in there is easily extracted by calibre or Kindle Unpack. I wonder if the rest of the data in there provides sufficient 'context' to construct a bona fide print replica KFX? Otherwise AZW4 is kind of useless for side loading to a Scribe. Last edited by tomsem; 06-29-2024 at 01:34 AM. |
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But Amazon controls everything about print replica and what gets exported, so they should be able to offer an option to disable the write-on feature, or degrade the export (e.g. rasterize the page thumbnails instead of including PDF text objects). But maybe not enough volume to justify engineering effort. |
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AZW4 has most of the functionality of KFX print replica. It contains a PDF that is only used to render page images along with a list of words and their locations that is used for text selection and searching. KFX print replica has a few other features such as clickable links and the ability to embed audio/video content that AZW4 lacks. |
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Internal Filename Question
Kindle covers, after being imported using KFXInput and converted to epub using Calibre's internal converter, have one weird filenaming quirk when the epub is opened in the editor: The extension for the graphics.
The file for the cover is "cover.jpeg". Other graphics files, ranging from publisher logos to graphical devices like section marks to actual illustrations, are assigned, in the order encountered in the book, a name like "RS2_54X.jpg". Is this just a conversion artifact — to assign a different extension to the cover illustration and the cover illustration only — or something buried somewhere in the KFX specification? Is it perhaps related to SVG issues with covers inherited from AZW conversions? It's certainly trivial, but seems just weird and consistent enough that it may reveal something else. (Like a programmer's fatigue and typo-that-luckily-causes-no-harm in one place of thousands of lines of code.) |
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Added: We have already had this conversation: Internal Filenames AZW/KFX --> Epub Last edited by jhowell; 07-03-2024 at 09:12 PM. |
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The previous conversation didn't make clear to me whether the origin point for this particular filenaming issue was Calibre, or farther up the chain. Renaming in Calibre would be less likely to cause later problems on reconversion if the origin was Calibre than if, say, that was a hardcoded-in-the-KFX-spec filename/extension, which is possible since every book has one and Amazon has been known to take advantage of such things.
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Oddly the same advice was given in @jhowell's response to your post in the thread they linked to: Quote:
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The main exception to that is the naming of XHTML files. Instead of using the arbitrary names used internally for those in KFX ("c0", "c9", "cU", "c1N", "c26", etc.) I chose to name them sequentially ("part0000", "part0001", "part0002", etc.) to match how calibre and KindleUnpack do it when converting KF8/AZW3 files to EPUB. In retrospect perhaps I should have also retained the KFX names for those files. Calibre's conventions for file names used when replacing a book cover seem odd to me. Personally I avoid conversion whenever possible and when it is necessary I turn off as many options that modify the book's internals as possible. |
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Greetings, I'd like to report a bug.
It would seem that when converting KFX comics/manga, an error occurs. Exception('This book has a layout that is incompatible with calibre conversion. For best results use either the From KFX user interface plugin or the KFX Input Plugin CLI for conversion. See the KFX Input Plugin documentation for more information.')" It likely has something to do with right-to-left image layouts, but not sure. |
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