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Old 10-19-2021, 03:42 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by emdashery View Post
My issue is that in order for the embedded fonts to look normal in KDP, Ive had to increase their size dramatically (like up to 1.9em from 1.2) so when they get downconverted back to mobi, they look HUGE. Hence why I'm trying to target the older devices specifically.
I use 1 em (= 12pt) for body fonts unless its a font naturally very small or large (best avoided for body text).

NEVER set a line height in the Paragraph style, or else users can't set the line spacing and if you do "pick" a fixed line height per style it will be wrong, locked and vary by model.

In LO Writer for ebooks I leave LH for a paragraph style as "Single" and the size is either empty or greyed out. I do set the line heights for a PDF for a POD paper edition.
No issues.

InDesign is really for paper. Using LO Writer, Styles, edit in ODT and save as docx (never edit that in LO except once for a Word import) for Calibre.

Also I forgot to mention the KF8 "publisher font" issue with Kindle. AFAIK it's never automatically selected. The user has to pick it. But the Amazon fall back fonts vary with app and model of Kindle. A Fire isn't really a Kindle, it's really an Android tablet with an app, but not quite the same as iOS or Android, which are not quite the same and all the apps can manage "Kindle" material that doesn't work at all on an eink Kindle.

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