[Hitch]

Hey, gang:

Well...another ponderment. As some of you may have seen, I've been trying to help someone on another thread here with font-embedding issues. However, in both the course of that, and some abrupt startlements at Kindle's DP since last Friday, certain things seem to have changed at Amazon and I could use some help in figuring "what's what." The font-guy has other issues, unrelated to this, but this also affects him and anyone else uploading at KDP.

Can someone, speaking very, very slowly and in small words, explain to me what we do, in Sigil, for zipping up the ePUB? We've run into something odd that I can't quite explain, but to get (some) of our fonts to work (Type1/postscript) in books that were uploaded this past week, we've had to take our usual epub, but then unzip it into its constituent parts, do some (pre-mobi) editing, and then rezip those same constituent parts, using WinRAR, to get to a filename.zip file, and then rename filename.zip to filename.epub--which then works at KDP with the fonts. If we open the zipped file (renamed) in Sigil, the resulting file won't work (at KDP). Doesn't work really as an ePUB, either, but....this also seems to have some part of what's going on with MOBI's made from Sigil-made ePUBs. MOBI's made from Sigil-made ePUBs aren't "carrying" the fonts at KDP, either; when you mobiunpack the (resulting preview) mobi, the fonts are still in the kindlegensrc.zip, but they are MIA, in toto, from the resulting MOBI file. No display, no option, zip. (No pun intended). However, if we take the ePUB, tweak it as described, and use WinRAR to zip, then simply rename, the resulting "ePUB" works as a conveyor mechanism at KDP.

Something is obviously different about zipping with WinRAR versus whatever Sigil does. Remembering that I'm not a steely-eyed coder, can someone give this a thought and see if anything obvious springs to mind? User_none, if you're around, or one of the guys? Meme, or...? I know this may not simply be the zipping/compression mechanism, but I thought I'd start at the most obvious point and work my way in. Other things are afoot (obviously, the postscript fonts are history now, but I have MOBI's that have to be made to work this week), but this is patently part of it, it seems.

I know, I know..I always have the weird stuff, don't I?

Hitch