PinkCampion Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 I have been having trouble loading a 203 page book interior to Kindle Direct Publishing that I have made in Affinity Publisher. It contains quite a lot of graphics from different sources and some text. There are some pages with bleed and I have allowed for this in the dimensions of the pages. I exported it to pdf as a pdf/X-1a:2003 according to their suggestion. I have asked on the KDP forum and was told that it needed to be flattened, but I don't know how to do this in Publisher/Designer. I read somewhere on here that the pdf/X-1a format automatically flattens the document. Is that correct? Some of the graphics were vector formatted but I have changed these to jpegs just in case that was the problem, but it doesn't seem to have helped. If anything, its worse because now the error message is just 'Failed manuscript upload' whereas before it uploaded it but failed when I tried to Preview it. What other things could be preventing it from uploading successfully? I am new to this and don't know where to start in resolving the problem. I have successfully uploaded three other books with no problem but they were much simpler in content. The cover has uploaded with no issues. Thanks for any help. pertorio 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PinkCampion Posted April 15, 2021 Author Share Posted April 15, 2021 Thanks for the reply. I have run the Font manager on the document and it isn't finding any problems. I have used quite a lot of custom fonts in the book and did wonder if one of them had caused a problem, but it is saying they are all ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Hi @PinkCampion, My apologies for the delayed response here! Unfortunately I'm not personally familiar with Amazons KDP upload process, however from a few cursory Google searches it appears this issue has been reported before when the uploader has a 'spotty' internet connection. Have you tried uploading your file since, or whilst using a different connection that has been successful, or are you still receiving this error? Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pertorio Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 I have the same problem, I have never had with previous version of affinity publisher. Maybe is kdp problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 On 4/15/2021 at 3:23 PM, PinkCampion said: The cover has uploaded with no issues. 1 hour ago, pertorio said: I have the same problem, Just an idea: Is the successfully uploaded cover in its PDF as 1 page only, means as a spread merged of possibly a two facing page layout in Affinity? I assume at least the content pages of the book are required to be in the PDF as single pages (not merged to 2-page spreads). In case of spreads in the PDF the KPD software might be confused by the correct page dimensions + the total number of pages. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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