[Hitch]

Originally Posted by DLSieving

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.

Yes, well, most everyone here knows that. Given that Kawasaki's templates unfortunately use paragraph styles, instead of heading styles, for chapter heads, anyway, you are likely better off not using his.

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

Well, as long as the fonts survive the upload, then you have it solved--right? Is that what you mean, or do you just mean that the mobi that's built on the desktop--not yet uploaded--has fonts in it?

I must be confused. I thought that your problem was that the KDP was stripping your fonts. The location of the font on your computer, or, for that matter, whether it's purchased or not won't affect that result. Also, the SendToKindle won't necessarily give you the same result as loading your test file at the KDP, and previewing that there, for a variety of reasons.

Hitch