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Originally Posted by GreggBridgeman
I have formatted books for kdp for more than 10 years. I mostly stick to Sigil and hard code everything as an epub then upload directly.
For testing, I will either use KindleGen or KindlePreviewer to ensure quality.
The last series of books I uploaded I noticed that though the SVG formatted images and embedded fonts render perfectly in KindlePreviewer and via the KDP previewer, when you access the "Look Inside" feature on the book's product page, the SVG images do not properly render, nor do any embedded fonts.
I suspect this is because the "Look Inside" previewer is unable to handle HTML5.
Has anyone else encountered this? I have reported the issue to Amazon but I am not holding my breath.
(Attachments are screenshots in each of the various previewers. Note that the book title, in this case "A Carol for Kent" is an SVG image and the cursive font is embedded for the letter at the beginning of Chapter 1.)
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You do realize that your SVG images and embedded fonts will not work with Mobi. So how are you handling Mobi for those with older Kindles?
Also, the header font with shadows doesn't look good. Second, most people won't even see your embedded fonts on a Kindle because Publisher Font is not the default when there are embedded fonts. So do you really want embedded fonts that don't wok for the preview and won't be seen by most who read your book?