Hi,
I have finished my book and trying to compile for Kindle. In the Cover pane, there is no cover art. The cover art is sitting in a file named Cover. It is in the Binder. How do I get the Compiler to recognize it and add it in the Cover pane?
A second question is: Do I have to make any other changes to the mobi. file, or can I just upload it to Amazon?
Thanks
Hi,
In the “Cover” pane of Compile, click on the pop-up button that says “No Cover Image” and choose your cover image from there:
That will bring up a list of image files that are contained in the binder (note that it only shows images dragged or imported directly into the binder, not images that have been placed inside text documents).
As for whether you need to make other changes, that depends. You will need to check the .mobi file in Amazon’s Kindle Previewer app, which is available for free from Amazon.com. This will let you see exactly what your file will look like on all Kindle versions (it is basically a Kindle emulator). Make sure you are happy with the way the file looks there. If you are, then you are good to upload to Amazon.
Hope that helps.
All the best,
Keith
Thank you. I got the cover loaded.
In the log that was generated, there is line that says, “No Page map found in the book”. Is this important?
Thanks
Hmm, that’s strange. Is the table of contents being generated correctly in the .mobi when you open it in Kindle Previewer?
All the best,
Keith
No. The Table of Contents is not correct. It seems each subsection of a chapter and other things are being counted as chapters.
I’m making progress. I got the program to number the Chapters properly. There are other issues but I’ll play with it for a while.
Thanks
I am stuck on one problem:
There are 2 tables in my book. I created them by using tabs to lineup entries. After compiling, the formatting was lost. What might be the best solution? Thanks
Have you got the “Formatting” pane set up to override formatting? If so, that might be the issue, in which case you can either select the text that is having problems and use Format > Formatting > Preserve Formatting, which tells Compile not to override the formatting of that particular block of text, or in the “Formatting” pane of Compile you can click on “Options” and tell it not to override the tabs and indents.
However, if I understand you correctly and you have lined up some text using tabs (that is, it’s not a real table but text separated by tab characters), you may need to rethink that and use a real table instead. .mobi and .epub files use HTML, and HTML doesn’t support tab stops - tab characters in HTML will always appear as a single space, so formatting text using tabs won’t work for e-books (this is just a general limitation of the format).
All the best,
Keith
Hi,
I have made some progress with the column issue. I used the Table option in Scrivener. The table has about 70 rows so it extends over a few pages. It also has to be viewed in landscape mode due to its width.
The first page looks fine. The following pages don’t because the columns have become narrower and moved to the left. The typing in the cells then runs together. I don’t understand why the columns shifted after the first page. It’s still the same table.
Thanks
I’m not sure the Kindle handles long tables too well, to be honest - someone else reported something similar with long tables. Scrivener just exports the table to HTML and then it’s up to the Kindle to render it correctly. Try exporting to .epub and opening the .epub in something like Adobe Digital Editions. Does the table look okay there? That’s worth checking because the HTML is exported exactly the same for .epub and .mobi, so any differences are entirely down to the viewer application.
All the best,
Keith
I decided to use Lists. Problem solved. Thanks.