We used the text–align attribute to left justify chapter titles and TOC style entries. A solution may be to use Notepad (but I haven’t, yet). If you’ve done so and you have funny truncation error then you can retype those entries like I did (very tedious). A workaround is: don’t narrow the Notepad application window so any TOC or logical TOC text word wraps. It turns out this is well documented and has been an issue since Notepad first appeared. Both errors occurred at the point where the lines in the files (.ncx and. It also showed up in HTML TOC errors in the. How could we tell if they were non–printing? It showed up in truncated logical TOC entries (generated by Kindlegen from. mobi files that Notepad was inserting non–printing characters. We discovered through some disturbing errors in our. mobi files that we submitted to Amazon KDP. Finally, we used Kindle Previewer to generate our last few. We tried a different approach for page-breaks. We figured out some intricacies of nested. We used the text–align style attribute for chapter titles and table of contents (TOC) entries. We discovered and corrected some upsetting features imposed by Microsoft’s Notepad application. On to the new features of our process, some of which may be technical. We’ll see if anything good results from the continued discussion.Įnough talk of Amazon’s problems. However, on 10 January 2014, I received a query from KDP about this issue. A friend with an iPhone purchased the book and said it worked fine. Then I went ahead and published Tragic Wonders. This was a tad disturbing, to say the least. I sent a query to KDP about the fault and didn’t receive a reply once they figured I wasn’t asking for advice on my. Windows captures the fault this way: DescriptionĬ:\.\Amazon\Kindle Previewer\lib\phantomjs_mobi82html.exe I have no Apple device.Īdditionally, KP 2.92 generates a fault when it produces the. You’re supposed to sideload it to your Apple device to test it. KDP no longer provides an emulated means to check your Kindle files targeted to iPhone/iPad. The Kindle Previewer (KP) version I used is 2.92. Several things are new with Kindle Previewer software and my process. This post is an update to a previous article on self–publishing. I found one glaring (to me) error in a chapter title very late in the quality control process. A few days ago, I hit the ‘save and publish’ button on the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) website to launch Mandated Memoranda Publishing’s second book: Tragic Wonders – Stories, Poems, and Essays to Ponder.
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