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.
Don't know if that is useful and hope it saves someone the time I spent putzing with the stuff! Big hugs MamaRed On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy at omsys.com>wrote: > > I sent this to Hedley off list, and he urged me to repost it > on Framers. So here it is. > > --Jeremy > > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:34:32 +1100, Hedley Finger <hedley.finger at gmail.com > > > wrote: > > >Do you or will you have in the future a mif2go *.mobi, *.prc, or *.azw > >generator? I have attached a copy of the Amazon Kindle Publishing > >Guidelines for your perusal. > > I found a fairly simple method, at least to MOBI for Kindle, > but the same toolset does many more formats. > > First, get Calibre. It's free: > http://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows > Run it and set up its own empty directory somewhere. > > Now set up your Frame book as usual If you have stuff > before the TOC, like cover, title page, etc., put that in > one Frame file and include it as the first item in the > TOC (possibly conditioned out for PDF or other formats). > Make sure you add the char format for page numbers in > the TOC so you can tell M2G to delete them (par. 12.7.2.3). > > Set up a Mif2Go project for plain HTML, with wrap and > ship on, so you get a zip of the HTML. Run it. > > Make sure you don't get the log file in the wrap > dir; if you did, remove it from the .zip. It will > mess you up. > > In the Wrap dir, rename the *TOC.htm to index.htm. > Remove the *TOC.htm from the zip, and put in index.htm. > (In Win 7, you can do that with Explorer.) > > In Calibre, Add Book and select the zip you made. > Calibre copies it into its own dir. Fill in the > metadata Calibre wants (title, author, lang, etc.). > > With the zip selected in Calibre, Convert to MOBI. > Look at all the screens before telling it to start; > under Look and Feel, disable scaling of fonts, and > under Structure, specify NO TOC. You may see other > tweaks you want to make. > > Look at the resulting MOBI in a viewer, preferably > a real Kindle or the Amazon Kindle app on your desktop. > Calibre has its own viewer, but it doesn't behave the > same as Kindle. I wasted some time fixing things that > were fine on the actual Kindle. For example, Kindle > puts a page break for each new HTML file, so you can > control those by where you Split. The Calibre viewer > ran them all together. > > You will probably want to make changes in font size, > alignment, indents, etc. Open the local.css in the > wrap dir in an editor like Notepad++ and adjust it. > Save, and drag the CSS to the .zip in the Calibre > directory. Rerun the Convert. I did this about 20 > times. ;-) > > There you are... Took me about five hours for the > first 200-page book, and an hour for the second one. > > Note: Most of that time was spent tweaking CSS. > The different e-readers are totally inconsistent in > their support, even of the simplest things like > left-margin. > > -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. > <jeremy at omsys.com> http://www.omsys.com/ > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as jerilynne.knight at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/jerilynne.knight%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > -- love and light, hugs and blessings ? <http://www.mylivesignature.com/> MamaRed Knight coach | speaker | strategist | geekette igKnighting passionately powerful possibilities? <http://mamaredspeaks.com/> and helping women be so SELF-ISH they transform their world<http://theselfishformula.com/> P.S. Are you SELF-ISH enough? Then its time to get that way, because the folks in your world need you to live your gifts and share your unique message. Let's connect <http://www.facebook.com/mamared> Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/mamared> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jerilynneknight> LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/mamared> <http://twitter.com/mama_red> Twitter <http://twitter.com/mama_red> Let's talk: [image: Skype] mamared2002 | 203.MAMA054 (203.626.2054) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120221/765a87b1/attachment.html>