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Originally Posted by DreamWriter
Oh, my! I'm glad the problem's been fixed. As a reader, that would be very irritating.
UPDATE: I received a reply from Amazon KDP this morning (below). I just sent them everything they asked for, so we'll see what happens.
I asked if other KDP authors have reported the same problems I'm having: (1) auto-hyphenation, (2) bolder title/chapter fonts, (3) bolder body font, and (4) smaller graphics than before.
I'll wait until I hear back from them before putting more effort into attempts to fix my e-books. If anyone has suggestions regarding HTML/CSS, I'll certainly consider them.
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Hi:
A couple of questions/ponderments:
- Can you remove "font-weight:normal" and tell us if that has any effect? I know it shouldn't--I'm just asking.
- Also, the font-sizing mechanism, for the chapter heads--can you try that in ems? Rather than 240%, can you try 2.5ems, and see if that alters anything much?
- I'm also wondering if the weight of the chapter head is just throwing everything off. May I ask, is Laheb.ttf a bold version of that font? The bold member of the family, or are you manually "bolding" it with that weighting factor? (What font is this, BTW?)
- What happens if you set the body to a serif? Not a specific font, just a font-family:serif? Does that change anything?
You're saying that you have no body font, no p font, etc., set anywhere, is that right? Are there any vestigial font settings left over from whatever it was in, before you converted it?
One of the things that we have a lot of experience with--but, I want to be clear, this doesn't make us experts, just frustrated bookmakers--is font-y weirdness at the KDP. I know that, for example, just because you have that chapter-head font embedded, you'll only ever see the body font on the PPW as Helvetica. (One of the reasons I mentioned setting it expressly to a serif font, even if that doesn't affect the bizarro-world hyphenation issue.)
Before your html moves to Sigil, what was it in its earlier life?
Sorry for what must seem like a boatload of random questions--I'm just sort of flailing around, seeking threads to pickup, when I ask these things. Only because of the weirdnesses we've seen, in at least hundreds of books with fonts.
Hitch