Pages to Word to Kindle problems
I'm trying to publish a book on Kindle, but I'm running in lots of trouble because I'm writing in Pages.
The preferred Kindle (KDP Amazon) method is using Mobi Creator but apparently Mac doesn't work with mobi; next best is using MS Word, compressing a Word .doc file with imbedded images and uploading that. And there's the problem because when I go from a Pages file to a Word .doc file, but I'm losing images, fonts are changing and text formatting is getting messed up. The "worst" format by Kindle standards is .pdf file because their conversion really doesn't work very well with it. Then it is further messed up using Mac OS file compression which apparently changes some coding compared to Windows "zip" compression but that's another issue.
Question #1: Is there any way to set up Pages to "save-as" or "export" into a Word file and keep all the formatting?
Question #2 : Since Pages doesn't support a "view source" function (unless I'm missing it?) , is there any way to see the formatting to double-check the conversion?
Brian Lawson
Mac OS X (10.6.7)