You can customize some settings like first paragraph indents and spacing between paragraphs, but keep in mind every customization you make is a chance for more junk code to sneak into your Kindle file. Don’t justify your text, don’t hit “Enter” twice after a paragraph to insert extra space, never ever hit “Enter” over and over again to get your next chapter on a new page and don’t use tabs to begin paragraphs. Use the default settings in Microsoft Word. However if your eBook does not contain these formatting issues, here are 6 Easy Steps to turn your Microsoft Word document into a Kindle book: Step 1: Type it clean Getting rid of the junk code requires a solid knowledge in XHTML programming and bundling in EPUB and MOBI formats. ![]() doc file is turned into a bundle of XHTML files. All those issues insert extra code that translates into “junk” code when the. ![]() If your Kindle book has bullet points, graphics, tables, block quotes or any other special formatting issues, this tutorial may not work for you. Some common formatting issues include wacky spacing, entire sections or chapters bolded and italicized, paragraphs split up, text flowing behind pictures and more. There are hundreds of conversion programs and Kindle “meatgrinders” that promise clean Kindle files, yet deliver a file full of gobbledygook. All titles get stripped to a generic serif font.This guest post is written by publishing authority and two time best-selling author Kristen Eckstein.Īnyone who’s tried formatting their eBook themselves will tell you it’s no small feat. I converted it to mobi and sent it to the ipad kindle app. I’m only using two font families and the standard Georgia is one of them.įinally I made a single page test with 5 titles all with a different paragraph style set to a different font (standard ones). So I even tried removing the encryption.xml file and replacing these fonts with full original versions. I read somewhere that kindle doesn’t like the encrypted fonts ID generates. In the css file (in both the epub and mobi files), all fonts are correctly listed as and the css font-families look good and set to fall back onto a generic sans-serif style. This has no effect on the font type, but it is being assigned as I also set the titles to be pink (as a test) and that worked. I even output an additional css file with the epub that targets amzn-kf8, amzn-mobi and (monochrome) to just display a sans-serif font. I’ve tried everything in my power to try and preserve the fonts. When I upload the e-pub to the Amazon KDP store and let it convert it, the same is happening. ![]() All other formatting settings are preserved though (page breaks, spacing, images). But when I pop the generated mobi file into dropbox and open it in the Kindle app on the ipad, all fonts are stripped away to some generic serif font. ![]() When I open it in Kindle Previewer on my mac it looks good too (even if some title fonts have defaulted to sans-serif). I slide it over to dropbox and open it in iBooks on my ipad and it is exactly the same as what I see in ADE on my mac.īut, it’s final destination is as a kindle book on the Amazon store. I even managed to amend the existing ID print file to output for e-pub without making a new version or damaging the existing print version. I can now output it as an e-pub and it is exactly as I want it. I used an earlier book I had designed for print to experiment with. I recently completed Anne-Marie Concepción’s “Indesign CS6 to EPUB” course on ( )Īs an experienced ID CC user it was great.
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