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Originally Posted by dgatwood
Might be the now infamous KDP font stripping issues. They can be downright miserable to work around, but it can be done.
The link above gives a few rules that work for most folks. If they don't work for you, then my recommendation is to start by ripping out about half of your stylesheet at a time (but not the font parts) and seeing if a test book shows up with fonts in the online previewer. If the fonts are still gone, put that half back, and delete the other half (but not the font parts). Continue to remove half of half, half of half of half, and so on, until you narrow it down to a handful of rules that cause the problem, and take whatever actions are needed to avoid those problem bits. |
Thanks for the link! I read that thread a few weeks ago when I was researching my font/auto-hyphenation problems. I just re-read it more carefully.
Embedded fonts, currently used only for chapter titles and headings in three of my e-books, are never stripped out by KDP. There's been no problem with that, now or in the past. The embedded fonts are present in the for-sale books and downloadable samples.
What I don't understand is why the Publisher Font option in the Fire HD6 drop-down fonts menu is no longer showing in these books after publication. Shouldn't it be there when there's an embedded font? It IS there when I sideload my Kindlegen-created mobi to Fire HD6. (This same mobi is the one I upload to KDP.) Why would the Publisher Font option not be in the published e-book now? It used to be in my e-books...before all this auto-hyphenation nonsense started a month or so ago.