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Originally Posted by serendipity22
I am experimenting with using unicode chess pieces for diagrams in some of my chess ebooks I have on Amazon.
The diagrams are OK when viewed in a kindle reader, except that if I zoom in or out the chess pieces change size while the board and pieces do not.
Is there a way I can either make the pieces fixed so they don't resize or
make the board resizable?
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What solutions did you go with since your 2018 chess thread?
"embedded fonts in epub"
The chess recommendations given in that thread are still applicable now in 2020.
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Originally Posted by gmw
I fear that any attempt to get completely consistent behaviour between images and text is doomed to failure. (At least, that is my pessimistic forecast.)
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Yep. See discussion in 2018 thread above.
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Originally Posted by gmw
I assume you are intending to embed an appropriate font for the pieces - relying on readers to have a font with good chess pieces could be risky.
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Yep. Barely any font is going to even have those characters.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Use SVG diagrams.
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Another potential solution. SVG will work for KF8+KFX, while PNG/GIF fallback will be needed for KF7 and Amazon's Look Inside.