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Originally Posted by dgatwood
With one exception, they were all my own custom fonts, based largely on SIL OFL-licensed fonts, but I've massively reworked the kerning, and in some cases added various 'calt' tables and other features to suit my purposes. Additionally, I corrected various font metrics so that the somewhat quirky font handling code in Kindle readers wouldn't render the fonts in a badly distorted way.
Some are OTF, some are TTF. Every font disappeared. Worse, most of them were still referenced, apparently, causing the online previewer to show square boxes where the letters should be. That's just not right....
KDP's import also mutilated my SVG text, changing the font size to approximately one point tall (unreadable). I can't even imagine what would cause that.
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OK: that's a completely *different* problem. The font-stripping problem removes the font folders, entirely, from the built mobi. You're using character slots outside of what Amazon has available, basically, sort of like Mandarin, if I had to guess. In other words, your Unicode is outside of their universe. Now, I could be completely wrong, but that's what happens when we see "custom" fonts, with unicode numbers out of their range. And before you ask, no, I don't know the outlines of their range, but I've certainly seen the effects.
Warning: I'm NOT a font expert. Not at all. You're obviously far more of one than I, I couldn't create a font if my life literally depended on it.
That being said, I know from unhappy experience that trying to use fonts that have any type of mapping outside of the usual (again, for example, some of the Mandarin font(s)),results in what you've described--the
sad look of
empty boxes. No font, because the device doesn't have the slot for it. (I think that part is right--can one of you massively geekier guys, like @Diap, etc., jump in here and confirm--it's the firmware, right? Rather than the hardware?)
And, again, unless I'm wrong, that SVG is not gunna work, certainly not for text. Not yet. Admittedly, because I have to make books that cover the spectrum, I don't play with SVG a lot (wish I could!), but....
Hitch