Comments on: Adapting Comics for The Amazon Kindle Part 2 – The HTML Doc (Tutorial)

By: Umesh

Umesh — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:45:22 +0000

Hi all,

Kindle is supporting the tables, but tables are displaying properly also. Main thing you cant define rules if you given like this all the table having rules but we need only groups ” it is not working, and also all the table attributes are not working in kindle devices. In your html document working fine in Browsers but it is not supporting Kindle. Very difficult to formatting the texts.

By: robotcomics

robotcomics — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:15:35 +0000

Sorry to say, Srinath, Kindle doesn’t currently support tables, which is why the div won’t work within one. In order to include a table in a kindle document, you’ll need to make it an image (jpg, png, etc.) you can insert rather than an HTML table. So far, there’s no other way around this that I know of.

By: Srinath

Srinath — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:52:11 +0000

Hi all,

I have a problem in using div.. am not getting the bottom border of the div if i insert in the table.

I have a table with 1 row and 2 column, in the second column I inserted div with the border 2 for the div. when I build the file for prc the bottom border is not coming in div. If I remove the table it its working fine.

I cant use only the div becz I have some text in the first column. Please help on this.

By: robotcomics

robotcomics — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:17:47 +0000

Hey, Srinath – do you mean you want the text to wrap around the image (text above, then image, then more text below, maybe some text off to the side of the image as well)…or do you mean you want the text to literally be ON the image, super-imposed and covering the image?

If the former, then it’s basic HTML you can learn about here – http://www.pageresource.com/html/image1.htm

If it’s the latter, though, the only way to do this would be to prepare the image with the text already on it, the whole thing as an image, just like comic pages have text written/drawn on them. Do this in illustrator or photoshop and then you can add that image with the text already drawn on it wherever you’d like. But that’s the only way currently to manage this.

By: Srinath

Srinath — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:46:25 +0000

hey, I was trying to add image in the kindle…. I mean… I have some text and I have to add the text above the images. Image should be in backround and txt should come above the background image.

I am trying with so many ways but its not working… kindle PC its not supporting.
Please let me know is it possible or not in kindle.

By: dbaxter

dbaxter — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:31:07 +0000

Hey, Robert – while every device does realistically have limitations, the Android is far, FAR more flexible than the Kindle. The Kindle is meant to be a text “eReader” and due to this its ability to handle images of any kind are severely limited. As far as McCloud’s “Infinite Canvas” in concerned, mobiles like Androids and iPhones definitely approach this infinite ability (hampered only my imagination and creativity and – let’s face it – the ability to actually code what your mind dreams up). Mobiles can add vibration, animation, zoom, fade-out, push-up, push-down, display whole pages, have it pan-n-scan, etc. The canvas is indeed limited only to what you can make the software accomplish.

Any time you deal with a third-party software (Google’s Android platform, Apple’s iTunes, etc.) you’ll have some limitations, as the platform isn’t yours like “the internet” is yours. But often, like McCloud suggests, you can almost always accomplish a lot more than it initially seems if you sit down and really give it some creative thought. And if you have someone that can make it happen programmer-wise, of course

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:22:27 +0000

Do comics for android, have the same HTML limitations.
Or is there a way to do something like Scott McCloud’s infinite canvas?

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By: aldwin

aldwin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:32:31 +0000

thank you very much. i appreciate it.

By: dbaxter

dbaxter — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:40:14 +0000

Absolutely, aldwin, I use Calibre to convert to .mobi (and in fact spent a bloody month getting it just right for the Kindle 2). I’ll post a special tutorial on mobi files and the Kindle soon, just for you