{"id":2229,"date":"2009-09-18T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:21:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:21:53","slug":"golden-girl-kindle-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/09\/18\/golden-girl-kindle-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Girl Kindle Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/SrLkjcKAEoI\/AAAAAAAAAo0\/cEBeIuEisGo\/s1600-h\/GG-2inch_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/GG-2inch_2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382615802165858946\" \/><\/a>I seem to be running behind on my whole to-do list.  Golden Girl is out in trade paperback but I only got around to converting the time travel novel to Kindle format today.  I took this opportunity to make notes of my conversion process which will form the bulk of this post.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I have laid out the book using Adobe InDesign as my layout program, and since I bought the CS4 Suite package, I also have Dreamweaver as a web page editor.  This makes a relatively streamlined workflow, but not everything is as smooth as it could be.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Luckily, I have been following the process of doing all my markup as styles.  This simplifies the process downstream.  So here is what I did today:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Duplicate final version of Indesign master into the Kindle Work directory<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Export to Dreamweaver (HTML) with options:<\/span><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Export Document<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Bullets and numbers to lists<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Copy images optimized<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">JPEG Medium Baseline<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Empty CSS Declarations<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Open HTML file in a new non-server site under Dreamweaver<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Begin HTML cleanup<\/span><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Using Dreamweaver site window, move all images from folder created by InDesign to the same level as the HTML file, allowing Dreamweaver to fix all the image links as it moves them. Delete empty image folder.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Format only by adding content to the CSS declarations at the first of the file<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Trim down all excess in the title page\/copyright page\/etc, so to get to the text as soon as possible.  Reduce font size on boilerplate stuff. Do without front flyleaf page etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Change ISBN number if you&#8217;re using separate number for ebooks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">If an image doesn&#8217;t work in the smaller ebook reduced resolution, delete it or fix it.  Delete surrounding image tags as well. I removed the two maps that were in the paper edition because they were useless at the screen resolutions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">The original Table of Contents doesn&#8217;t survive the export to HTML, so you have to rebuild it manually by putting an anchor id at each chapter title and building a list of links at the TOC position in the file.<\/span><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">find each chapter title<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">insert named anchor before the text<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">name them Chapter01, Chapter02, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">at TOC location, build list of links with #Chapter01 etc as link and Chapter name as text.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Step through PDF of printed version and find any specialized layout.  Check the corresponding CSS block and try to make an acceptable ebook alternative. I had some Courier text and some special bold items, in addition to blockquoted sections.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Note: the InDesign to Dreamweaver conversion will occasionally lose some markup and mis-place photos.  Recheck it all manually.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Immediately after the body tag, insert cover image art sized to the Kindle screen.  <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Check-Links-Sitewide and remove images that you&#8217;ve de-linked in your HTML cleanup so you don&#8217;t accidentally upload them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Insert a mbp:pagebreak tag in the document wherever a pagebreak is needed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Make a ZIP archive of the Kindle folder containing the HTML and image files all at the same level.  <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Go to dtp.amazon.com and fill in the forms, upload the zip file and a larger cover image file for the product page on the web.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Once converted, check it in their preview window, but don&#8217;t freak if there are bugs.  The previewer isn&#8217;t too hot.  Try reloading and see if the same error occurs again at the same place.  Eventually, either fix errors in the HTML, or guess that the previewer is in error and publish it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Once published, download a sample or buy your own book and proof it in a real Kindle or iPhone kindle app. If there are errors, you can fix and re-upload and republish.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\">Once you&#8217;re happy, announce it to the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-size:medium;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>As of this blog entry date, the Kindle submission process isn&#8217;t completed, so it won&#8217;t be there for sale for some time yet.  I&#8217;ll blog and tweet when it is and I&#8217;ve completed my error checking.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to be running behind on my whole to-do list. Golden Girl is out in trade paperback but I only got around to converting the time travel novel to Kindle format today. I took this opportunity to make notes of my conversion process which will form the bulk of this post. 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