Great one Jeremy! Thanks sooooooo much for the repost. One hint, if I might. I recently published a Kindle book after many hours of research. Setting the fonts doesn't do much because the Kindle user can set what they want it to be. I streamlined and focused on 2-3 headings that were proportionally larger than the body text. <div>
<br></div><div>Don't know if that is useful and hope it saves someone the time I spent putzing with the stuff!</div><div><br></div><div>Big hugs</div><div>MamaRed<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy@omsys.com">jeremy@omsys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
I sent this to Hedley off list, and he urged me to repost it<br>
on Framers. So here it is.<br>
<br>
--Jeremy<br>
<br>
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:34:32 +1100, Hedley Finger <<a href="mailto:hedley.finger@gmail.com">hedley.finger@gmail.com</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
<br>
>Do you or will you have in the future a mif2go *.mobi, *.prc, or *.azw<br>
>generator? I have attached a copy of the Amazon Kindle Publishing<br>
>Guidelines for your perusal.<br>
<br>
I found a fairly simple method, at least to MOBI for Kindle,<br>
but the same toolset does many more formats.<br>
<br>
First, get Calibre. It's free:<br>
<a href="http://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows" target="_blank">http://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows</a><br>
Run it and set up its own empty directory somewhere.<br>
<br>
Now set up your Frame book as usual If you have stuff<br>
before the TOC, like cover, title page, etc., put that in<br>
one Frame file and include it as the first item in the<br>
TOC (possibly conditioned out for PDF or other formats).<br>
Make sure you add the char format for page numbers in<br>
the TOC so you can tell M2G to delete them (par. 12.7.2.3).<br>
<br>
Set up a Mif2Go project for plain HTML, with wrap and<br>
ship on, so you get a zip of the HTML. Run it.<br>
<br>
Make sure you don't get the log file in the wrap<br>
dir; if you did, remove it from the .zip. It will<br>
mess you up.<br>
<br>
In the Wrap dir, rename the *TOC.htm to index.htm.<br>
Remove the *TOC.htm from the zip, and put in index.htm.<br>
(In Win 7, you can do that with Explorer.)<br>
<br>
In Calibre, Add Book and select the zip you made.<br>
Calibre copies it into its own dir. Fill in the<br>
metadata Calibre wants (title, author, lang, etc.).<br>
<br>
With the zip selected in Calibre, Convert to MOBI.<br>
Look at all the screens before telling it to start;<br>
under Look and Feel, disable scaling of fonts, and<br>
under Structure, specify NO TOC. You may see other<br>
tweaks you want to make.<br>
<br>
Look at the resulting MOBI in a viewer, preferably<br>
a real Kindle or the Amazon Kindle app on your desktop.<br>
Calibre has its own viewer, but it doesn't behave the<br>
same as Kindle. I wasted some time fixing things that<br>
were fine on the actual Kindle. For example, Kindle<br>
puts a page break for each new HTML file, so you can<br>
control those by where you Split. The Calibre viewer<br>
ran them all together.<br>
<br>
You will probably want to make changes in font size,<br>
alignment, indents, etc. Open the local.css in the<br>
wrap dir in an editor like Notepad++ and adjust it.<br>
Save, and drag the CSS to the .zip in the Calibre<br>
directory. Rerun the Convert. I did this about 20<br>
times. ;-)<br>
<br>
There you are... Took me about five hours for the<br>
first 200-page book, and an hour for the second one.<br>
<br>
Note: Most of that time was spent tweaking CSS.<br>
The different e-readers are totally inconsistent in<br>
their support, even of the simplest things like<br>
left-margin.<br>
<br>
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.<br>
<<a href="mailto:jeremy@omsys.com">jeremy@omsys.com</a>> <a href="http://www.omsys.com/" target="_blank">http://www.omsys.com/</a><br>
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