FM 12 Kindle Page Breaks

[Scott Prentice]

That's basically what FM12 does. It generates an EPUB then converts it 
to MOBI using the KindleGen utility (better than using Calibre, IMHO).

...scott

On 4/21/14 10:43 AM, Jeff Coatsworth wrote:
>
> What if you sent it to ePUB first and then used Calibre to convert it 
> to MOBI?
>
> *From:*framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Art Campbell
> *Sent:* April-21-14 1:00 PM
> *To:* Scott Prentice
> *Cc:* Framers List; Free Framers
> *Subject:* Re: FM 12 Kindle Page Breaks
>
> Thanks, Rick and Scott -- the embedded tag start at top isn't working, 
> so it looks like the file will be sliced and diced a bit.
>
>
> Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com <mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com>
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> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Scott Prentice <sp10 at leximation.com 
> <mailto:sp10 at leximation.com>> wrote:
>
> Art...
>
> Unfortunately this CSS setting isn't honored by most readers .. 
> Kindles are typically worse in this regard than EPUB readers.
>
> The only guaranteed way to get a page break is to force the content 
> into a separate content file in the package. You should be able to do 
> this by starting a new FM file for each place you want a page break. I 
> assume you're generating the MOBI from a FM book?
>
> Cheers,
>
> ...scott
>
>
> On 4/21/14 6:26 AM, Rick Quatro wrote:
>
>     Hi Art,
>
>     I don't know if there is a way to do this directly from FM12 to
>     mobi. If you go to Epub, you can modify the CSS to give you page
>     breaks then convert the Epub to mobi. There are two CSS
>     declarations that you can try:
>
>     page-break-before: always;
>
>     or
>
>     page-break-after: always;
>
>     You will probably use the first one with the CSS for your headers
>     that you want to force page breaks on. Please let me know if you
>     have any questions or comments. Thank you very much.
>
>     Rick
>
>     Rick Quatro
>
>     Carmen Publishing Inc.
>
>     585-366-4017 <tel:585-366-4017>
>
>     rick at frameexpert.com <mailto:rick at frameexpert.com>
>
>     *From:*framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
>     <mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com>
>     [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Art
>     Campbell
>     *Sent:* Monday, April 21, 2014 8:54 AM
>     *To:* Framers List; Free Framers
>     *Subject:* FM 12 Kindle Page Breaks
>
>     I'm publishing a book into Amazon's Kindle format, mobi, and was
>     hoping someone knows how to force a page break by adding it to a
>     FM para tag or other FM code.
>
>     Any ideas?
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Art
>
>     Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com <mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com>
>       "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52
>     Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
>               No disclaimers apply.
>                        DoD 358
>
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