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Originally Posted by GJ Coop
Hitch
I'm uploading the ebooks as an epub. There is only one embedded font used in one class, for chapter titles.
I'm seeing the embedded fonts in the online Previewer after I've uploaded the book.
I'm even seeing them in the Download Book Preview File in the Downloadable Previewer.
But the embedded fonts are not present over on the public Amazon site although everything else in the CSS is, ie, color, size, indent.
It's just my fonts being stripped.
I've tested this with six different books uploaded in the last few weeks.
Different fonts, TTF and OTF, same problem. No quotes on fonts, single quotes, double quotes, any variation you could come up with.
Everything else in the ebook in the Kindle store looks good, the CSS is working otherwise.
This is my mystery but perhaps it's good that it is now also being noticed by others, might mean that it's not my markup at fault.
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GJ:
That's interesting. I've heard one other guy mention this, but it's not clear to me whether he's using Jutoh or doing his books by hand. He heavily recommends Jutoh for DIY'ers, but has posted a big long thread about the wonders of it over at the KDP, but at about the same time, he posted that his fonts were being eaten, too.
At this moment in time, although something has patently changed at the KDP vis-a-vis fonts on INTAKE, we (as yet) are not seeing any fonts that are being eaten in the PW (Publishing Workflow). We are still seeing that the SRL (Start Reading Location) has been changed yet again--our former workaround is not working now, but we HAVE been able to persist with fonts thus far.
I can't say as to why you're having issues. From what I've seen, you shouldn' be, BUT, I will say that the KDP is extremely sensitive to WHERE and HOW the fonts are called, in the CSS. Were I you, I'd start bracket-navigating. I'd do one font, and see what happens. Then add another, class-by-class. If I were a guessing man, which I'm not, I'd guess you have a class conflict. Not something that will show up in any check; I mean, something that the KDP doesn't like, like...calling the font in "bodysection," or something like that.
I was going to ask you whether you were setting the fonts in the body tag, versus the paragraph tag, but you're saying that you ARE seeing fonts in the online Previewer and download preview MOBI, but NOT in the for-sale book. That's an oddity.
WAIT: you don't mean, when you say
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But the embedded fonts are not present over on the public Amazon site although everything else in the CSS is, ie, color, size, indent.
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The LOOK INSIDE, do you? You mean the SAMPLE, not the Look Inside, right? Because if you mean the LOOK INSIDE, no, you WON'T see the fonts, etc. Please confirm you're talking about the book for-sale and the sample, and not the LITB (Look Inside the Book)?
Hitch