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Originally Posted by JSWolf
We are talking from experience. We know that most embedded fonts do not work especially those used for pBooks.
Do you really find the fonts you've embedded to be good enough for eInk screens? I know the fonts mentioned in your CSS and they are not to a lot of people.
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As I mentioned when I replied to DSNB, I stumbled onto this because I inadvertently forgot to strip the font files before publishing to KDP. I create EPUBs that get aggregated by Smashwords (not by my personal choice) but I have to personally manage them for Kindle and Google Play Books, as the aggregators do not work with either of those platforms. Our books are also available on a couple of sites for freewill donation.
For the donation sites I optimize the EPUBs for native viewing on iPhones (Apple Books) and Androids (Google Play Books). Once those files are built, I strip the fonts and publish to KDP. That's the workflow that led me to this point. I've only been doing this for 2 years so I suppose I didn't know better.
Recently, the author has been using 500-700 footnotes, which pushed me to get comfortable with EPUB 3 for the pop-up footnotes. Otherwise, I had been using just EPUB 2 for sake of compatibility. This is especially important for our readers in parts of Latin America, where having an Amazon account is often impossible when a portion of your diet is banana peels.
Anyway, it's true that some of those fonts are not best, and I've corrected it. For headings I've gone with always using Adobe Caslon Pro Semibold, rather than Bold. Where Minion Pro and Kepler Std were utilized, they were too fine, so I moved to using them in their Medium typeface and it has brought them on-par with the other e-Ink fonts that are stock Kindle. Myriad Pro works fine in just about any case, but I don't use it for body text.
And the footnotes are looking good, too. Next week, after I get Amazon to actually push out my last release I will repurchase and put up some photos here of my actual layout on the actual Paperwhite.
Lately, Amazon has been giving me difficulty by showing both pBook and eBook files accepted and live, yet still pushing out old content. That's what happened to me today with Kindle. In one instance it wasn't until I ordered a publisher proof copy before they pushed the update of the pBook out.