Thread: Uploading ePub to KDP allows >127K images in mobi (hooray!) but strips embedded fonts
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Old 10-16-2014, 11:26 AM   #3
Peter Ahlstrom
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Why would I need to do that? When I run this exact epub through kindlegen and Kindle Previewer, the fonts stay embedded and work perfectly. I also already have another book published on KDP since June (uploaded as a .mobi) that uses those exact font files and CSS, and the font shows up fine.

But just to be thorough I just now changed the font names to "Orient Express" and "ParmaPetit-Normal" to match the Info window font names and reuploaded the epub to KDP. The resulting mobi file still has the error.

EDIT: Never mind. I'm getting the error even after uploading a working .mobi file. Therefore, the issue must be the same as the one described in the thread "Months of Runaround From KDP Support: Font Embedding Fails." I will simply have to search through the html and apply the workarounds talked about there.

So this thread should be closed. Thanks!
Last edited by Peter Ahlstrom; 10-16-2014 at 01:02 PM.
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