Kindle Previewer and Indesign

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
October 8, 2020
3 replies
10522 views

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.

EPUB

Correct answer Derek Cross

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

https://www.circularflo.com

B

BookFeast

Participant

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.

J

Joe-New-to-ID

Inspiring

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

J

Joe-New-to-ID

Inspiring

Reflowable has its own issues but is in all ways the "correct" model for e-books. It's worth understanding and mastering.

Two guidelines: always make sure information you look up is current; the net is loaded with very outdated info that is not readily identifiable as such. If it's more than two to three years old, it may be wildly wrong or misleading.

And if a process includes editing exported EPUBs, it stems from an older, largely outdated approach; you should probably move on.

James: Got it. Thanks. I just went through all of my book's individual documents and checked for the language settings. All of the paragraph styles were set to "English: USA". This was not the case for the character styles; they were all unselected (no language set). I've since changed them all to "English: USA". The same error message from Kindle Previewer 3 resulted for the Fixed Layout option. I will stick to the Reflowable option as you suggested.