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Originally Posted by Hitch
The Previewer has created KF8 formatting for some years now. There's nothing new about that.
I think that given you followed everything that Kawasaki told you, you should tweet/email him and ask him to sort it out.
Hitch
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Hitch,
Thanks for your reply.
The main advice I took from Kawasaki was to use Word styles to impart consistency to my source document. I did not use his sample CSS templates to answer one forum question, rather, I let Word take care of the CSS, as I had long since settled on the layout for my books. The judicious use of a tool in place of manual editing saves a huge amount of work over the course of the numerous production and polishing cycles. Almost by definition, a good software tool is worth many thousands of steps. Aside from the platform-specific converters and previewers, my two main tools are Word and Calibre.
Calibre ingested the result and once I had fleshed out my conversion settings solved every problem I had faced to that point. It just took me a number of iterations to figure out why my special font wasn't getting embedded. During this time I was proofing, editing and basically doting over the content and layout and so let the font embedding question ride for a week. But I've purchased the font now and installed it under ~/Library/Fonts and it is now being embedded by Calibre and the results are now very close to publication quality, all the way through the desktop previewers and readers to both the iOS Kindle App and my Kindle Fire 5G. I know what devices support my content and which ones don't, and have indicated as much in my product descriptions.
My next step after final proofing will be to test the SendToKindle version to see if it looks the same as my side-loaded versions and wrestle some more with Amazon if it doesn't.
Thanks once again for your comments and dialogue!
Dave