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Originally Posted by Notjohn
Kevin, does that work with any embedded font/language? Now that the KDP claims to support five Indian languages, there are many appeals on the KDP forum for help when the system doesn't seem to work for individual authors. I'd like to be able to point them to this discussion, if so.
Thanks!
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We make no claims about what may or may not work on the KDP platform with regard to embedded fonts. The plugin you're referring to is a third-party Sigil plugin for editing
EPUBS. And while it's quite certain that the plugin will create the proper epub font-embedding css for any font encountered, there are no guarantees that it will
work properly for every font embedded in an epub--let alone after it's been converted to a Kindlebook. In fact, it's already been pointed out that there are some fonts that are simply incompatible with ADE.
There are certain steps to ensure that everything has been done right from a coding standpoint to embed a font. But that does not mean every font properly embedded in an epub is going to display properly on every epub-reading system.
I would very much prefer you did NOT point to this discussion as the potential solution to all KDP authors' font embedding problems. Unless the plugin author claims to have specifically incorporated code that handles all of the potential quirks of converting epubs with embedded fonts to Kindlebooks, it wouldn't be fair to get their hopes up that a turnkey solution was being provided.