Thread: Uploading ePub to KDP allows >127K images in mobi (hooray!) but strips embedded fonts
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Old 10-15-2014, 07:39 PM   #1
Peter Ahlstrom
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Uploading ePub to KDP allows >127K images in mobi (hooray!) but strips embedded fonts
Okay so...we know that kindlegen and Kindle Previewer both convert images to a max of 127K. But the Kindle forma specifications say that images can be up to 5 MB.

So on a hunch, I made a new book in KDP and uploaded an epub that has a 250k image and a 350k image. KDP says it's converting to Kindle format. When it finishes, I download the preview .mobi file, run it through KindleUnpack, and sure enough, the 250K and 350K images are both in there (in both the mobi7 and mobi8 versions), uncompressed. And the images view fine in Kindle Previewer.

So, awesome.

But my embedded fonts are now gone. Not awesome.

If I look at the css file in the mobi8 folder generated by KindleUnpack, it says:

@font-face {font-family:"OrientExpress";font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;src:url(XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX);}
@font-face {font-family:"ParmaPetit";font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;src:url(XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX);}

Literally, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is in there. I'm not greeking it.

And if I use KDP's online previewer option, the fonts are gone from there too.

So... Any ideas?
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