well that is one gnarly workaround! I’ll try it on my Windows machine.

Now we need to figure out how to get that to work on Macs …

AM

Keep it in RGB. You’re going to send them a flattened RGB JPEG, meaning your fonts will be rasterized and flattened into the background.

You can keep it layered in Photoshop (or ID or IL, wherever you’re designing), for ease of editing.

Please take some time looking at book covers in the Amazon Kindle store so you can see what stands out, what works and what doesn’t. Typically you use very little text, or text that’s there is larger than what you’d use for print. Also be sure not to mention price or any marketing/selling info at all.

Amazon has lots of on-line and PDF-based resources for creating Kindle ebooks. Here’s the page with their instructions for covers:
https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A2J0TRG6OPX0VM

AM

You don’t need InCopy, no. But moving the INDD file around after it has linked stories is just asking for trouble. It should stay on the server.

It sounds like the ID file is not yet linked to the IC files. They’re just like Word files that haven’t been flowed in. Is that right? In that scenario, it should work fine. You import the InCopy files just like Word files. (Except there is no Import Options dialog box). If you need to edit the contents of the text frames you’ll need to check the stories out first.

AM

This was a spam post, sorry.