<html><head><base href="x-msg://12/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Well yes, of course, Amazon's software, which is notoriously Mac unfriendly. It <i>could save me a lot of time</i> knowing how to format, because (my understanding is that) RTF is out and it must be a Word doc file. Otherwise, things get scrambled. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Can I use Text Edit and save that as Word? Or is a PDF OK? What about photos and illustrations? If anyone else out there has sailed these uncharted waters, plz say hello. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Yes, I have tried to research online but I may not have tried the right places. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Thanks, </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Darlene </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">"Publish or Tear Hair Out Trying" Reger</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "></span><br style="font-size: 14px; "><div><div>On Apr 16, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Geoffrey Stevens wrote:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">With Amazon's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Kindle Direct Publishing</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>free software.<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:cdreger@grm.net">cdreger@grm.net</a><br>Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:21:46 -0500<br>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:dmmug@dmmug.org">dmmug@dmmug.org</a><br>Subject: [DM-MUG] Kindle via a Mac<br><br>Does any one have experience publishing to Kindle from a Mac? Advice from someone who has successfully done this, would beat trolling through all the PC advice on the Amazon and related sites, trying to find the Mac friendly info. The problem is well defined — formatting issues. The successful solutions — needed. Anyone?<div><br></div><div>Darlene Reger in MO.</div><br>_______________________________________________ DMMUG mailing list Use this Address to send mail to the list:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:DMMUG@dmmug.org">DMMUG@dmmug.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Use this page to modify subscription options:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/dmmug">http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/dmmug</a>_______________________________________________<br>DMMUG mailing list<br>Use this Address to send mail to the list:<br><a href="mailto:DMMUG@dmmug.org">DMMUG@dmmug.org</a><br>Use this page to modify subscription options:<br><a href="http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/dmmug">http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/dmmug</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>