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Hitch · 02-13-2017, 07:22 PM

Gang:

Any of you professional bookies running into issues with the preview, at NookPress?

We have a client that decided to publish at NookPress. She dropped me a line, asking about "why" her fonts look all wonky. Honestly, I assumed that she'd hit the "insert the cover" or tweaked the file a bit, which almost always results in a corrupted ePUB. But nay, that is NOT what happened.

In addition to her book, I tested about 6 others, all with different fonts. I am getting NAFT on fonts. Everything is the ubiquitous TNR or some other basic serif font. And before you ask, yes, yes, I have it set to Publisher font.

Before I reach out to NookPress (and their utterly dead forums, etc.), and end up smashing myself in the noggin with a hammer, as I usually do when forced to actually try to reach a LIVE PERSON there, anyone else here run into this? We've tried calling the fonts directly; 2nd-party invoking by importing CSS sheet 2 from sheet 1; and putting it right on the HTML. If we put a font on the body tag, that works, but sheeeeeeeit, boys and girls, if we do that, we nuke their ability to change the main narrative font. I really do NOT want to do that.

Moreover, that's not the issue. We don't care what body font the person likes. The only thing we used were heading fonts, for the chapter heads and sub-heads. I'm getting naft.

Spoiler:

Dudes, dudettes? Anyone smash into this lately? AFAIK, it's a somewhat recent phenomena; I just had an uploading issue with another client, in the last...I dunno, 8 weeks?....and that font worked. Now? NIX.

TIA,

Hitch

02-13-2017, 07:22 PM	#1
Hitch Bookmaker & Cat Slave Posts: 11,503 Karma: 158448243 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Phoenix, AZ Device: K2, iPad, KFire, PPW, Voyage, NookColor. 2 Droid, Oasis, Boox Note2	Naughty NookPress font Nuking. Gang: Any of you professional bookies running into issues with the preview, at NookPress? We have a client that decided to publish at NookPress. She dropped me a line, asking about "why" her fonts look all wonky. Honestly, I assumed that she'd hit the "insert the cover" or tweaked the file a bit, which almost always results in a corrupted ePUB. But nay, that is NOT what happened. In addition to her book, I tested about 6 others, all with different fonts. I am getting NAFT on fonts. Everything is the ubiquitous TNR or some other basic serif font. And before you ask, yes, yes, I have it set to Publisher font. Before I reach out to NookPress (and their utterly dead forums, etc.), and end up smashing myself in the noggin with a hammer, as I usually do when forced to actually try to reach a LIVE PERSON there, anyone else here run into this? We've tried calling the fonts directly; 2nd-party invoking by importing CSS sheet 2 from sheet 1; and putting it right on the HTML. If we put a font on the body tag, that works, but sheeeeeeeit, boys and girls, if we do that, we nuke their ability to change the main narrative font. I really do NOT want to do that. Moreover, that's not the issue. We don't care what body font the person likes. The only thing we used were heading fonts, for the chapter heads and sub-heads. I'm getting naft. Spoiler: I forgot the fun part. They (NookPress) INSISTED, to her, that we had the ubiquitous encryption.xml file in there, and that's why the fonts weren't working. We made this from Word, so...nope. Wasn't in there. This client is pretty cool, thank god, but you know how the usual client is--no matter what you say, they'll be sure that B&N is right, and you're...well, FIBBING at best. Dudes, dudettes? Anyone smash into this lately? AFAIK, it's a somewhat recent phenomena; I just had an uploading issue with another client, in the last...I dunno, 8 weeks?....and that font worked. Now? NIX. TIA, Hitch