Then, I used Jutoh to write the update text. Framemaker is, well, let's just say 'different' in the way it handles URLs, and I had to copy each chapter into Jutoh, reset the links, and import the images, easily - and rapidly - resized in Xara to 350px wide. The book, Self-Publishing Secrets, includes LOTS of hyperlinks to reference sources. when I gave up making a Kindle ebook because it was just too confusing. This completes a project started a year ago. Update - just finished using Jutoh to convert a paperback book written in Adobe Framemaker into an updated ebook for Amazon Kindle. Barnes & Noble wants to get the author's bank money-transfer info, and I'm not too comfortable with that. and I'll post an update later if I can get it into Apple's iBook scheme. Here are the Kindle links, if anyone is curious about how this goes to market: Here's a screenshot after it downloaded into my PC Kindle library. And Amazon - within a few hours - publishes my book in England, France, and Germany (didn't see Australia, is Amazon there?). Happy day - thanks to Jutoh, have FINALLY found a way to make Kindle and epub ebooks without having to struggle with XHTML stuff. but still nothing like what a PDF ebook can deliver. The new Kindle Fire and Nook tablet devices will allow somewhat more graphics. mobi for Kindle, anyway) - so making cool ebook images might be a new market for Xara-Users! (In Kindle, the page-background color is set by the user). Remember, there's near-zero page layout capability here - you can only insert images in the text stream, images that I think I'd hold to 500px wide by 250 px high, so that there are no cutoff problems. Images on the regular Kindle - the e-ink one - are displayed in B/W, 16 levels of gray. mobi file that I uploaded to Amazon, and it worked! Cover comes through in color on my PC version of Kindle, and I hope it will show up in color on the new Kindle Fire also - no reason why not. Cover art from Xara, of course! Jutoh made the. Used Jutoh today to compile an ebook, Last Man Out, and publish it to Amazon. will probably try 800圆00 images and see how they work on the new Fire and Nook tablets as well. Am guessing that a default image size would be a picture to show on the iPhone 4. They are easy for the reader because the text reflows to any size display, like a cell phone. But for text-based books, like page after page of text with an occasional image inbetween paragraphs - the. As Xara people, we would always prefer fully-formatted PDF ebooks - where we have total control over the page layout, and the new readers can all display PDFs (though embedded Flash content doesn't work). but it looks like FINALLY it is easy to make Kindle/Nook/Apple/Sony ebooks. mobi file that I uploaded to Amazon and it was accepted immediately without problems. You just add your text and pictures and it compiles everything into one simple. You don't have to know ANYTHING about all that confusing XHTML ebook stuff. and then test it on the Nook at our local store. Next test will be an Epub-format export from Jutoh and I'll put on B&N. while its cover art will display in B/W on the regular Kindle, sooner or later I'll find someone with a Fire and see if the cover shows in color. mobi Mobipocket format that can include color pictures. Am using Jutoh to publish - right now - an ebook to regular Kindle, in the. I sure hope so! Kindle Fire, B&N Nook, and the iPhones and iPads all have full-color displays.
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