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KB0130: Kindlegen and/or Kindle Previewer cannot be run from Jutoh on Windows or Mac

Windows

On Windows, if Kindlegen doesn't run despite being correctly set up, giving this error:

Could not run C:\Kindlegen\kindlegen.exe. Please check your Kindlegen settings.
*** Build failed.

or you get an error launching Previewer, like this:

Execution of command KindlePreviewer.exe failed (error 740: the requested operation requires elevation.)

then you should give the Jutoh executable (jutoh.exe) administrator rights via the Properties menu command in Windows Explorer.

Mac

It's possible that permissions were not set correctly when Jutoh downloaded Kindlegen. First try running the Kindlegen program from a terminal window, for example:

/Applications/Kindlegen/kindlegen

Use the actual location on your machine, which you can more easily find using the tab key to complete the file or folder name.

If you have located the kindlegen command correctly, but it does not run, try changing the permissions like this:

chmod a+x /Applications/Kindlegen/kindlegen

Then try running it again.


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