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Gorgoth · 12-06-2019, 05:41 AM

Hello,

I just started converting my Kindle books with Calibre and have been stuck on the first book for several hours now trying to figure out font behaviour. Input format is AZW3 and the target I'm using is PDF.

My problem is that the font is different when I view the resultant PDF in an external viewer like Foxit and with the built-in viewer. It seems the original e-book doesn't have any fonts embedded (checked by unpacking it), but I see some fonts are defined in its stylesheet.

So at this point I'd like to know whether what I'm seeing in the built-in viewer is a default font (Since there's no embedded font), and if so what is that default font.

Does the built-in viewer respect the font-family defined in the stylesheet at all? Or it just cares about embedded fonts which in the case there're none present it uses a default font.

Mind you I saw a few posts here asking about the font behaviour but in the answers the name of the default font wasn't mentioned.

I'd like to recreate what I see in the built-in viewer as best as I can when converting to PDF.

Thank you.

12-06-2019, 05:41 AM	#1
Gorgoth Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2019 Device: none	Calibre viewer font behaviour Hello, I just started converting my Kindle books with Calibre and have been stuck on the first book for several hours now trying to figure out font behaviour. Input format is AZW3 and the target I'm using is PDF. My problem is that the font is different when I view the resultant PDF in an external viewer like Foxit and with the built-in viewer. It seems the original e-book doesn't have any fonts embedded (checked by unpacking it), but I see some fonts are defined in its stylesheet. So at this point I'd like to know whether what I'm seeing in the built-in viewer is a default font (Since there's no embedded font), and if so what is that default font. Does the built-in viewer respect the font-family defined in the stylesheet at all? Or it just cares about embedded fonts which in the case there're none present it uses a default font. Mind you I saw a few posts here asking about the font behaviour but in the answers the name of the default font wasn't mentioned. I'd like to recreate what I see in the built-in viewer as best as I can when converting to PDF. Thank you.