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Old 11-11-2014, 03:41 PM   #118
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Originally Posted by quiris View Post
Hitch, the algorithm was used on several dozen ebooks with many different main fonts with success. Of course I can not guarantee that it will be work on every book.
Quiris:

I wasn't looking for a guarantee. I was wondering if you'd run into the same issue or phenomena that Peter and I have described. I'm not dismissing the "several dozen eBooks;" but in 2500+ ebooks, I've had ONE that had this issue. I've had others that had the infamous font-stripping problem, and we found that if we replaced a particular font, the issue ceased (e.g., Papyrus, which I can guarantee is devil-spawn at KDP, amongst others). However, this ONE book, the one that was almost identically symptomatic as Peter's--nothing worked.

We had to remove the Arial, period. We ended up going with a serif body font, and identifying the two "speakers" by using italics versus regular, and then, and only then, did the two other fonts, the calligraphy and the h/w fonts, work. It was absolutely bizarre, in terms of trouble-shooting. We spent several hundred manhours--literally--trying to tame this thing. We put two different crews on it. Nothing, and I mean, NOTHING, worked.

So, that's why I'm asking if you've even SEEN this. For any competent bookmaker, it's just not that common. Can you clarify what you mean when you say, "above," in your 2? You mean, only in headings, or...? I'm not following your intent.

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