Touch Nook formatting, publisher defaults do weird things to a simple epub

[uieluck]

So I've been working on this epub and I've had a lot of success with many devices. And I thought I had 100% clearance with the Nook until our QA person discovered when you turn the 'publisher defaults' off the fonts get a little screwy,,, in completely random places. I've looked at my .opf file and all the fonts seem pretty solid. When I turn the 'publisher defaults' on,, all the style and fonts etc. seem perfect. Does anybody else have this problem? Can somebody suggest what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks, T—

[uieluck]

What!!! Nobody has had this experience? Am I missing something?

[uieluck]

I would image these errors are attributing to my Nook problems?
OEBPS/Misc/Times-Bold • This resource is present in the OPF <manifest>, but it's not reachable (it's unused).

[Jim Lester]

Publisher Defaults off means the nook is generating a user style sheet that does overrides of the body, p and other selectors for fonts, linespacing, margin width and justification, based upon user selection.

This will interact in interesting way depending upon what the style sheet and the xhtml.
I would suggest editing the stylesheet to move moving the font-family attribute to the most general selector possible (body or p if possible), so that it will get overridden cleanly.

Future updates of the Nook Color firmware will 'fix' this by simply ignoring all @font-face rules except for what is specified in the user style, when publisher defaults are off.

[uieluck]

Ok.. But my @font-face (s) are pretty clean, at least I think..

@font-face {
font-family : "Times", serif;
font-style : normal;
font-weight : 500;
src:local("Times.ttf");
}
@font-face {
font-family : "Times", serif;
font-style : normal;
font-weight : bold;
src : url("../Misc/Times-Bold.ttf");
}
@font-face {
font-family : "Times", serif;
font-style : italic ;
font-weight : 500;
src : url("../Misc/Times-Italic.ttf");
}
@font-face {
font-family : "Times", serif;
font-style : italic ;
font-weight : 5;
src : url("../Misc/Times.ttf");
}
@font-face {
font-family : "Times", serif;
font-style : normal;
font-weight : 5;
src : url("../Misc/Times.ttf");
}
@page {
margin : 0.5em;
}
tbody, thead, tfoot, tr, td, th {
border-style : inherit;
border-width : inherit;
border-color : inherit;

And for god sakes it's TIMES! I will say this, Sigil has put my fonts in a Misc folder as opposed to the Fonts folder. But I've changed the OPF file to reflect that:

<item href="Misc/Times-Italic" id="Times-Italic" media-type="text/plain" />
<item href="Misc/Times-BoldItalic" id="Times-BoldItalic" media-type="text/plain" />
<item href="Misc/Times-Roman" id="Times-Roman" media-type="text/plain" />
<item href="Misc/Times-Bold" id="Times-Bold" media-type="text/plain" />
<item href="Misc/Times-Roman.dfont" id="Times-Roman.dfont" media-type="text/plain" />
<item href="Misc/Times-Italic.dfont" id="Times-Italic.dfont" media-type="text/plain" />
<item href="Misc/Times-BoldItalic.dfont" id="Times-BoldItalic.dfont" media-type="text/plain" />
<item href="Misc/Times-Bold.dfont" id="Times-Bold.dfont" media-type="text/plain" />

[Jim Lester]

It's not your @font-face rules, it's the font-family attribute in subsequent rules in your OPF.

For instance, if you had

body {
font-family: "Times"
....
}

This would get nicely overridden by the user style sheet to be what the user actually selected.

If however you had

p.myclassid {
font-family: "Times"
}

This isn't currently being overridden by the user style sheet. The result at worse is a ransom note effect with the fonts being a mix of the author (your) selected fonts, and the user selected fonts.

Putting the font-family attribute in the least specific selector (such as p, div, or body) that you can get away will potentially avoid this.

[uieluck]

Thanks for the input.. I'm somewhat confused.
However, I managed to force the text I was having a problem with to stick to a font/style. But it won't adjust in size etc. I checked my OPF file, the fonts seem to be pretty good. Are you suggesting to make these inline styles to override my external css?
Thank you.