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Inspiring
October 8, 2020
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Kindle Previewer and Indesign

  • October 8, 2020
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 I've been trying to preview a fixed layout epub on Kindle Previewer but it keeps failing. I am now running out of time.

 

I've validated it and it passed. I did Flightcheck and it told me there was a problem with ligatures so I got rid of them. I also changed fonts as they seemed to be clashing. I've changed the tables to png files and nothing seems to work. I've tried to DeBug it on Calibre but its been stuck on 47% for almost 2 hours. Nothing helps.

 

The message I'm getting is:

'Kindle conversion has encountered an internal error while enabling Enhanced Typesetting on this book.'

 

It has illustrator files and tables in it.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Correct answer Derek Cross

If you are on a Mac, have a look at CicularFLO: 

https://www.circularflo.com

3 replies

Participant
December 8, 2022

After much trial and error, I found that for my titles, this came up when there were multiple languages listed in the content.opf metadata. Choosing a single language allowed Kindle Previewer to move forward.

Inspiring
April 24, 2023

I'm new to InDesign. How did you edit "content.opf metadata"?

 

Derek Cross
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 24, 2023

If you're on a Mac try BBEdit.

Derek Cross
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Derek CrossCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
October 9, 2020

If you are on a Mac, have a look at CicularFLO: 

https://www.circularflo.com

Joely10623436
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 9, 2020

»It has illustrator files and tables in it.«

……it looks like you did all the steps to fix the problem. Also checked back with Kindle support?

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G202087570

 

Inspiring
April 24, 2023

Joely:  I may very well check in with Kindle Support. Thanks for the tip.

James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
April 24, 2023

Kindle has support? 😛

 

Joe, note that the origin of this thread is some three years back. Not everyone is still participating.