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Originally Posted by Hitch
So, Nothing But Love:
You said that you're making this book for a client, is that right? Presumably, that means you're being paid?
This is a perfectly common result, in MOBI, and has been for the last 8+ years. With all due respect--because we all have to start someplace--if you haven't dealt with this before, that says to me that you probably don't have enough experience to be charging someone.
Changing the font will have precisely ZERO effect on the line-height issue that surrounds Raised Initials or Dropcaps or BFLs. There are ways to work around this, but...that requires experience. And to do it correctly, it requires writing media queries for pretty much every device. it's a fair amount of work--but it's doable. And even then, there can be issues--and if you don't have 5 or more devices to test upon, you won't see them coming.
You should be upfront and tell your client that you simply don't have the knowledge to fix it, because when s/he sees other ebooks with Drops, BFLs and RIs that don't have this issue, s/he is going to wonder about what you're telling him/her.
I'm sorry if I sound blunt or harsh, but we are constantly seeing posts like this here, from bookmakers with paying clients, who are running into the most basic issues, in eBookmaking, that they should have already run into and surmounted on their first book, or certainly within their first FEW books. (My first Raised Initial, and the concomitant complications? In my 4th, ever, MOBI file. Late 2009 or possibly Spring of 2010, if memory serves. ) I strongly recommend that you 'fess up to your client, and perhaps consider subbing out the work to a more-experienced bookmaker. God knows, there are a thousand home-based "formatters" available out there who work on the cheap.
Hitch
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So, Hitch,
THANK YOU so very much for yet again honest reply. You've always managed to give me a slap in the face that I'm not an expert or as
experienced in the field of ebooks as you. You've formatted over thousands; maybe, even more, books so it's safe to say that you truly are the
extravagant expert in all things ebook related.
Thank you so much for the honest reminder.
I agree that I may be a novice and not as
experienced as you or the thousands of formatters out there, I have a lot of questions and I make a whole lot of mistakes but isn't that a learning experience? I enjoy this work and making clients happy with the simple books I put together for them.
I may run into some errors here and there, and that's the reason why I'm asking a forum about it. For feedback, for help, for support, for all of us to learn from each other. Isn't this what forums are here for?
So thank you for confirming that changing the font won't do anything. I've always appreciated your honest replies, so thank you once again, I hope you have an amazing rest of the week!