Thread: Fonts won't embed on Kindle Fire
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Old 10-21-2020, 09:27 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by NIRC View Post
InDesign gives the option to "embed fonts," so that is what I do. The font is not used throughout the whole file, only at certain points, so I would not use the Kindle font-choice option. The font is TIFF, but I converted it to OTF and there was no change.
And no, there are no error messages when I convert the file to MOBI either with Calibre of Kindle Previewer.
  • So, you don't know if the font has been obfuscated, or not, in the exported ePUB from InDesign?
  • And you don't know if you have it set to Publisher Fonts (which MUST BE turned on, if you expect to see your embedded font, in any Paperwhite device OR in Previewer 3).
  • And you haven't tried to convert the older files, that you say did work previously, to see if any of those convert?
  • And we still don't know how you are viewing the converted file, in terms of knowing whether the font is working or not, other than Calibre or KP3?

It would help if you could answer these questions, or try these steps, so that we can help you. So far, all you've said is that it used to work and now it doesn't, and with all due respect, you're on an eBook-making forum, that talks about working in HTML and CSS and you seem to be limiting yourself to whatever comes out of InDesign and using Calibre, presumably because it's fairly push-button. And I just told you that a Calibre MOBI won't have working fonts--it can't. Because it's a KF7 version, which didn't have font embedding. At the very least, you'd need to test AZW.

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