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EbokJunkie · 04-16-2013, 02:54 AM

Two days back I added Paperwhite to my good old Kindle 3 - and ran into this issue.
I embedded full font family (four files) into epub using Calibre plugin from our forum. I just tweaked this plugin a bit so that element body{font-family: Font_Family_Name;} was written into epub's css (without this tweak K3 did not display embedded font).
Bottom line: Converted file allowed switch between Helvetica and embedded CharisSIL on K3.

Well, copied azw3 to PW: Surprise, switch to Publisher font did nothing!
Why?
I tried to use Kindlegen 2.8 for epub->mobi conversion, same effect: Publisher font works on K3, pulisher font fails on PW.

I uploaded example here. This is a free epub book by G K Chesterton downloaded from mobileread. In this example epub with trailing undescores contains embedded font, mobi was obtained by Kindlegen 2.8, azw3 is Calibre output.
Maybe someone can give me a hint why I cannot switch to publisher font on PW?

04-16-2013, 02:54 AM	#1
EbokJunkie Addict Posts: 230 Karma: 13495 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: SoCal Device: Kindle 3, Kindle PW, Pocketbook 301+, Pocketbook Touch, Sony 950, 350	Paperwhite doesn't display publisher font but Kindle 3 does Two days back I added Paperwhite to my good old Kindle 3 - and ran into this issue. I embedded full font family (four files) into epub using Calibre plugin from our forum. I just tweaked this plugin a bit so that element body{font-family: Font_Family_Name;} was written into epub's css (without this tweak K3 did not display embedded font). Bottom line: Converted file allowed switch between Helvetica and embedded CharisSIL on K3. Well, copied azw3 to PW: Surprise, switch to Publisher font did nothing! Why? I tried to use Kindlegen 2.8 for epub->mobi conversion, same effect: Publisher font works on K3, pulisher font fails on PW. I uploaded example here. This is a free epub book by G K Chesterton downloaded from mobileread. In this example epub with trailing undescores contains embedded font, mobi was obtained by Kindlegen 2.8, azw3 is Calibre output. Maybe someone can give me a hint why I cannot switch to publisher font on PW?