Thread: Publisher Fonts option not shown when using send to Kindle
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Old 09-20-2015, 04:40 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by AppleTard View Post
Alrigt, I solved the problem to my satisfaction. In hindsight I should have tried this first, but I'm too dumb.

I generate the HTML using Word's HTML, filtered option, so the output includes all those awful Mso tags, full of "font-family" properties.

I got rid of ALL the font-family properties, except for my monospaced style, which I changed from "Courier New" to monospace. Converted the updated HTML file to dual-format ebook (HT to JSWolf), sent it through Send to Kindle, and... Success! Nice monospaced font (I tried setting a style to a sans-serif font, and it worked too).
That's because MONOSPACE works in any type of Kindle output. KF7, KF8, etc. That's not an "embedded font." You simply call the monospace font, and it works. That's why you can use/see monospace in a PRC/KF7 "mobi."

(Really: if Calibre now has two "types" of files called MOBI, and an AZW3 file, you C guys need to come up with different names. No offense, but that's daft. yes, I know that Amazon calls both a KF7 and a KF8-built file "mobi," but really--do you need to ADD to the confusion? At least during running KG, Amazon calls the KF7 "PRC." How do any of you have any idea what TYPE of "mobi" you built, if you can get a faux-Kindlegen-MOBI (dual) or a KF7 "mobi" (f/k/a PRC), with the same damn file extension? Wouldn't it make more sense to call the PRC, PRC, which can be renamed to MOBI, or something like that?)

Sheesh. All this, and the font isn't even embedded. Which--this slays me--is the ONLY reason that it's working when loaded via the KDP--because it's simply monospaced, which has been supported since K2.

And my "sheeshing" isn't aimed at the questioner--it's the entire "who's on first, what's on second-ness" of the discussion. URGHGHG.

Also: just 'cuz--in this instance, y'know, Wolfie's right. Or, at least, he's not completely wrong. Pedantic, yes. But not totally wrong about KF8 <> MOBI, really. And when we all refuse to be specific, see what happens? We end up with daft discussions like this one.

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