InDesign Kindle Plugin

InDesign 5.5 Kindle plugin: when I preview the Kindle file that I exported from InDesign, there is a wide space after the first letter of each paragraph. Why is this space there?

I haven’t really read overwhelmingly great things about the kindle plugin.
Try exporting to EPUB and then converting to MOBI using Calibre.
Bob

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    Hi. I want to publish my ebooks on Amazon, by jusing the latest version of InDesign - CS5.5 on my iMac. BUT I'm having trouble installing Amazons kindle-plugin, which should make you able to export your InDesign file directly into kindle-format. Whenever I try to install it, in the end, a pop-up says "Installation failed"! What have I done wrong?
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    How can I install the Amazon Kindle plugin for InDesign in InDesign CC? I have it installed in InDesign CS6 and it works fine.

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  • InDesign's Kindle Plugin Problem

    With the recent release of InDesign's Kindle plugin to export files to the e-reader it looked like life just got easier. It was false hope.
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    Jongware, the link for the page you provided doesn't open completely. (On third attempt the page did open--bookmarked your site.) Here's the plugin that I'm referring to:
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    =======================
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  • Viewing Kindle files in Amazon Kindle Previewer produced by Kindle Plugin for ID

    I'm trying to help my girlfriend get a simple, short (12 pages) children's book published on Amazon as a Kindle ebook for sale, and I have it laid out in book format (all pages in one file) in ID CS5.5. I downloaded the Amazon Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign, as well as the Amazon Kindle Previewer. After finally figuring out how to format the book using the plugin and seeing it the way we want in the Kindle Previewer, I'm noticing that the page numbering in the previewer says it's 77 pages, even though the actual book is only 12. I also read that the Amazon Kindle Previewer is meant to be used in conjunction with KindleGen, a command line tool that is the only tool officially supported by Amazon to convert files to Kindle format.  If that's the case, what purpose does the Kindle Plugin for InDesign serve? The documentation I have for the plugin is "Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines for Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign... How to create books for the Kindle platform from Adobe InDesign". So I'm a bit confused here.
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  • Do I need to make folios when using "export to kindle" plugin?

    I am making an interactive magazine (links and pictures are clickable) that is composed mostly of pictures. I've gone through lots of tutorials on how to make folios and preview them on your ipad which works great. I would now like to upload it to Amazon to be bought as an e-book and have downloaded the "export to kindle plugin", which shows you can export a document. Can I export a whole folio or do I have to make my magazine be in one single document and then export it?
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    You are in the wrong forum. Go the InDesign forum or better yet, the mobileread forums at http://www.mobileread.com/forums/
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  • Export project to Kindle (plugin)

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    I need to export my Indesign project to Kindle...
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  • Kindle plugin crashes and bugs

    Hello,
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    Just about every time I start the export to Kindle process, the export crashes and I get a popup saying "Object invalid" or "not an Object". I restart the export, and it runs. Go figure.
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    I think I figured out what was wrong.
    I was using a Book with 40 different documents tied together into a single Book.
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    I liked the Book w/ single docs, because I needed to create a TOC with each single doc. If they're all together when creating the TOC, unless you do a lot of extra work making special styles for each TOC, it all globs together and that's not what was desired.
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  • ID CS6 Kindle Plugin Export Error

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    I'm afraid I'd only be guessing at this point. I don't do epub at all. I do know, however, that CS5.5 tends to work better than CS5, and CS6 better still.
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  • Kindle plugin export only converts one file

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