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Originally Posted by Hitch
dg:
When you say:
...what do you mean? Do you mean, KindlePreviewer on a Mac? Something else on a Mac? Can you clarify?
Hitch
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Both Kindle Previewer on Mac and the normal Kindle reader app on OS X showed the book as normal text, but with fonts disabled.
My guess is that Kindle Previewer on OS X uses more native APIs than on other platforms. Alternatively, it could just be that there's a known bug in their font code that got fixed on OS X but not on whatever platform they're using for their server-side rendering. Or it could be that the OS X version of KP never got updated, and so never got broken by some regression.
BTW, it turns out that I lied earlier when I said that removing that line fixed all the problems. It fixed all the problems except for one: the micro-sized type in the SVG. That might be caused by font corruption, or it might be caused by something else. I'm still investigating.
Oh, and a random helpful tip: If you use the latest Kindlegen to build your books from an EPUB anyway, you can cut your upload time by about a factor of three by uploading the source EPUB instead of the MOBI.
Edit: scratch that last tip. You end up spending all the extra time waiting for processing on the server side. Apparently, their server's disk performance is abysmal.