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Originally Posted by Toxaris
Actually this is not the problem here. The ePUB must be made invalid to make make the conversion with KDP possible with internal fonts.
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Yes. Which we've stopped doing, as it gives me ulcers. I mean...deliberately uploading a book that you know is an invalid source file...that's crazy and asking for long-term trouble. We did it for two, as we could find no viable alternative and we had a hard deadline, but now we're just slogging through alternative fonts. Which brings me to today's update:
UPDATE:
More fonts that do NOT WORK, that
- Were truetypes, not Open Types;
- We received no warnings in KG/KPreviewer while building the files;
- Papyrus (not a word, graphic designer folks--it wasn't my choice) and Licinia Aged, a papyrus alternative.
- Only part of the fontset would display (for example, numbers, but not letters; and some of the letters, but not all);
- We finally replaced it successfully with Plato Medium TTF.
- Interestingly, one of them--and after all the hours yesterday, I no longer remember which one--did display, as though it was working fully, at the KDP-Previewer, but when the Preview mobi generated was downloaded, again, half the characters had disappeared, from the Fire View/Devices.
- So the KDP-Previewer is still buggy, BEWARE, fellow book-makers and publishers. Don't trust it, not at all.
- The fonts did display on Paperwhite, in full, but I suspect that expecting every purchaser to happen to have a Paperwhite is a bit of a gamble.

Question, although this is slightly OT, and I know that this is venturing somewhat into "mobi" range, but I'm still not 100% sure that this isn't a compression (specific to the font files) or mimetype issue vis-a-vis Sigil: does anyone here know a really great font guy/gal? Preferably a serious font designer, or someone with a foundry background? Or a font geek, who is very tecchy? I'd like to consult with someone on those fonts we know are not functioning, to see if I can discover any commonality in a way that I wouldn't know to look for. Feel free to PM me, if you don't want to post names/contact info.
Sorry to ask this here, but a) it's a continuation of the topic, and b) the more-tecchie hang here, and I'm hoping someone here either is or knows someone suitable to consult on the (possibly causative) qualities of fonts.
Thanks,
Hitch