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4:36 pm
December 30, 2013
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Little House
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After almost three years in the making, my newlywed financial bliss ebook is ready to be published. However, I built it in a PDF format so that it could be interactive (links, check boxes, places to type text, etc.). My dilemma is that when I tried formatting it through Amazon's Kindle platform, it didn't format correctly.
Anyone know of someone familiar with formatting a horizontal, interactive PDF file into a kindle ebook?
Any information is greatly appreciated!
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6:31 pm
December 31, 2013
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Jackie
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Congrats on your book :) I don't know about the check boxes and places to type text part, but when I formatted my book for Kindle I just did straight html and that worked fine for links and font sizes. I'd imagine it would for the others as well.
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12:21 pm
January 1, 2014
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Little House
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Jackie said:
Congrats on your book :) I don't know about the check boxes and places to type text part, but when I formatted my book for Kindle I just did straight html and that worked fine for links and font sizes. I'd imagine it would for the others as well.
Did you start with a word doc, then turn it into html? I think that's my issue – the file format. I have a word doc without the links and checkboxes that might work, but then the interactivity is missing. I think I'm going to check out bookbaby.com or one of the online publishers.
Thanks for your help, Jackie!
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3:44 pm
January 2, 2014
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Unfortuately, the Kindle format specification doesn't support interactive features. Kindle ebooks contain a very limited subset of HTML, along the lines of what was available in the early 90's.
I do ebook formatting, but not really with pdf source documents. I really hate pdf's as an ebook standard. You can take a look at my site for reasons and my rates, but if you want somebody who specializes in pdf-to-Kindle conversions, I do know somebody; I just have to remember her name.
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6:11 pm
January 2, 2014
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Jackie
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Little House said:
Did you start with a word doc, then turn it into html?
I originally used Open Office, but yes it was saved in Word format. Then I took the whole shebang and pasted into a text file, which I then put into html.
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1:15 pm
January 10, 2014
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Little House
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Edward Antrobus said:
Unfortuately, the Kindle format specification doesn't support interactive features. Kindle ebooks contain a very limited subset of HTML, along the lines of what was available in the early 90's.
I do ebook formatting, but not really with pdf source documents. I really hate pdf's as an ebook standard. You can take a look at my site for reasons and my rates, but if you want somebody who specializes in pdf-to-Kindle conversions, I do know somebody; I just have to remember her name.
Thanks, Edward. I actually have a Word file too, which is what I started with, but without the interactivity. I have to think about how I'm going to offer this ebook; maybe one version on a kindle without the cool checkboxes, etc., and one as a interactive PDF file. Send me the link to your site with rates. Thanks!
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1:16 pm
January 10, 2014
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Little House
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Jackie said:
Little House said:
Did you start with a word doc, then turn it into html?
I originally used Open Office, but yes it was saved in Word format. Then I took the whole shebang and pasted into a text file, which I then put into html.
Thanks, Jackie. I have a word file as well, but without the cool interactive features. I have to think about how to offer this.
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