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Old 02-04-2015, 11:30 AM   #151
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dgatwood View Post
Squirrelly doesn't begin to describe what I'm seeing from KDP:

Code:
body {
        font-family: "DG Didot", serif;
}
works, but:

Code:
body {
        font-family: "DG Didot", serif;
        -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
        font-smooth: always;
        -webkit-font-smooth: always;
        -moz-font-smooth: always;
        -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
        -webkit-line-box-contain: block inline replaced !important;
        line-box-contain: block inline replaced !important;
        text-rendering:geometricPrecision;
}
doesn't. Unfortunately, that code works around critical font rendering bugs in WebKit, many of which likely affect Kindle (untested).

Grr.

Edit: It looks like:

Code:
    text-rendering:geometricPrecision;
is the line that's breaking the online previewer.
dg:

Listen, I can PROMISE you that:

Code:
    text-rendering:geometricPrecision;
isn't what's breaking previewer on mine, because that line has never seen the light of day at my firm.

FWIW.

BTW: I know, all too well, the painful wait times for each book and the uploads at the KDP. We now have a "standard" 3-para long "book" that we use for testing, when we have one of these, because at least it uploads somewhat faster, but no matter what--it's 2 minutes minimum. {sigh}. Then 32 seconds to open the previewer. It's a bugger, isn't it?

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