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Originally Posted by jhowell
That is likely. Also adding them would bloat the size of the book and is unnecessary since most people prefer to choose their own reading font anyway.
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Does anyone know if the Sabon declaration works? ARE there any fonts in the ePUB, at all? Or are there none?
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There is no way that the publisher could do that. All of the formats are created at the same time from the same source file. Amazon needs the content of each Kindle format to be synchronized with the others so that things like user annotations will work across devices that use different formats.
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Yes, what he says. You create one "master" file, with media queries to try to stave off problems and hope for the best.
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After seeing Jon's version of the original CSS, I believe that this book fell afoul of a feature of Amazon's publishing process intended to prevent publishers from overriding the customer's font choice. It looks like they put font-family properties in the style definitions of all of the various paragraph types used in the book. That is against Amazon's rules.
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Yes, I agree. They saw all the fonts being called on major text portions and simply...either ripped out the FONT itself, thereby rendering it moot--hell, for all we know,
they put in the monospace code (and no, I'm not shocked that it doesn't work).
There's also the fact that many, MANY print designers who do INDD-ePUB-export files don't realize that Adobe fonts won't transport. I mean, you can put them "into" a file, more or less, but the moment that file is ePUBchecked, you're dead in the water. I wonder if it's as simple as, they ripped out the fonts? The book designer, that is?
I've seen worse. It's not great, mind you, but heavens knows, I've seen worse. I recently saw a Berkeley that had FORCED ragged-right justification and lemme tell ya, my inability to override it, for the entire novel, torqued my biscuits pretty good. And NO, I won't reformat the damn books I'm going to read. I do this for a living; I don't want to have to deal with it for my recreation. I simply don't.
Hitch