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Originally Posted by Hitch
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?
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The MOBI generated by the desktop Kindle Previewer didn't used to show the embedded fonts. Turns out they had not been embedded. Now they are, and now it does. This round's SendToKindle results TBD. KDP online version of Kindle Previewer showed me a blank screen and I didn't spend any more time with it.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
I must be confused. I thought that your problem was that the KDP was stripping your fonts.
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KDP may still be stripping my fonts but the results described above open the possibility that the real reason was that I had just not properly embedded them in the first place. It's true that I hadn't embedded them, but that may just have been masking the fact that they would have been stripped anyway; TBD.
In either case, my next argument to KDP will be simpler if my locally-generated MOBI looks right, which it now does.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
The location of the font on your computer, or, for that matter, whether it's purchased or not won't affect that result.
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Calibre expects to find fonts for embedding in ~/Library/Fonts.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
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.
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This I have discovered as noted above.
- Is there a way to preview on KDP without using their online Kindle Previewer, e.g. by "publishing" the book for author viewing only before really publishing it?
- Will I be able to simulate publication before actually publishing?
My technical progress may seem to be slow but it's not, it's just intermittent, as I've been spending the last few weeks proofreading. One way or another, one publishing platform or another, that has to get done. Almost there.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
Hitch
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