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crystalynnshelton
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May 12, 2020
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How Do I Convert An Existing FM 2019 Document to An E-Book

  • May 12, 2020
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Hello FM Community!

I'm a bit of a newbie to FM and have only been using it for about 6 months. I just completed updates to an existing textbook that is about 600 pages. Our partners would like to also offer the book as an e-book. What are the steps I need to take to accomplish this?

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

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frameexpert
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May 12, 2020

Start with File > Publish and choose ePub or Kindle.

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crystalynnsheltonAuthor
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May 13, 2020

Thank you for the quick response! I was able to create an ePub document and open it in ADE. However, there are a LOT of formatting issues. Any idea how to resolve?

 

Also, I tried to publish to Kindle but when I do I get the following message: KindleGen Executable was not found. What does this mean?

 

Thanks so much for your help.

frameexpert
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May 13, 2020

In the bottom right of the Publish panel there is a button to edit the settings (.sts file) for your output type. This is where you can map paragraph/character formats, etc. to styles in your output.

 

The KindleGen executable basically converts an ePub file to Kindle format. It's best to get your ePub formatting looking like you want it because you can convert to Kindle via Amazon's website, or by downloading the KindleGen executable from Amazon.

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