I’m, manfully, struggling through the Scriv tutorial and finding it’s like trying to swim up a steep waterfall , however, whilst I know I will get there in the end, it’s turning out to be a steep learning curve for me. Having tried a couple of other, inferior, products; I’m pleased to say that Scriv looks like the real McCoy!
One of the problems I have run up against in my previously published ebooks is the suuccessful use of ‘Word Wrapping’; whereby, I am able to insert images into my books and have the text ‘wrap’ around the image. My experience has been that, whilst everything has looked okay in the editors, when I’ve uploaded my books to, for example, Amazon’s KDP the images have taken on a life of their own and ‘floated’ all over the pages. Can anyone tell me if there is a function within Scrivener that enables us to successfully have text wrapped around imported images?
If you want greater control over the Mobi file output, you can enable the “Save the source files…” option in the KindleGen compile pane. This will output the full source for the book so that you can edit it using standard HTML and CSS tools. When completed, just open the .opf file using Kindle Previewer (or on the command-line with KindleGen) to generate the final .mobi.
Another approach is to create an ePub out of Scrivener and then use an ePub editor like Calibre or Sigil. Kindle Previewer can convert ePub files to Mobi, too.
One thing to be aware of is that floating objects in the text stream is not something that all book readers even support. Older Kindles have no concept of it, and the same is probably true of many ePub readers too. So even if you get something that looks right on a specific modern piece of hardware (or in a simulator), you’ll want to make sure it looks good for the many who will be using devices older than a few years, too. It is for this reason that most books are still published with simple between-paragraph images.
, however, whilst I know I will get there in the end, it’s turning out to be a steep learning curve for me. Having tried a couple of other, inferior, products; I’m pleased to say that Scriv looks like the real McCoy!