Italics don't render in NOOK app

[Ballory]

Docx to epub conversion... Italics don't render with 'original font option' in the NOOK app for tablets and phones, but ok with other fonts and on other devices. In calibre, I checked 'subset all fonts'. I noticed another epub of this same book that was professionally converted didn't even show the 'original font' option in this Nook app. (This paid-for service obviously knew something that I don't!)...What might i do to resolve this?

Using Calibre 3.40.1

[kovidgoyal]

Its likely the nook renderer does not like the font in question. Try using a different font.

[theducks]

Subsetting fonts may have removed Italic (if it was improperly declared and used) glyphs.
A font family can have 4 members (files):normal, bold, italic, bold italic
I have seen mismatched @font declarations (does not match the font file attributes)

Don't embed any fonts and see if the device renders italic (in the proper places )

If that works
You need a fresh (full sets) version of that font family member to embed. DO NOT subset

[Ballory]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Its likely the nook renderer does not like the font in question. Try using a different font.

Do you mean change the font in Nook, or on docx or can it be changed in Calibre? Changing it in Nook doesnt help the unsuspecting reader. Oh, the default font is 'Times New Roman'.

[Ballory]

Originally Posted by theducks

Subsetting fonts may have removed Italic (if it was improperly declared and used) glyphs.
A font family can have 4 members (files):normal, bold, italic, bold italic
I have seen mismatched @font declarations (does not match the font file attributes)

Don't embed any fonts and see if the device renders italic (in the proper places )

If that works
You need a fresh (full sets) version of that font family member to embed. DO NOT subset

Embedded font family 'Georgia' and 'Subset embedded' fonts. These settings substantially reduced file size from 4mb for no font adjustment to 672k…still to big for 65 pages, but all font attributes work OK. Hard to believe this Nook app has trouble interpreting 'Times New Roman' font attributes- Don't know why? …Also tested embedded 'Times New Roman' - makes big files-1.1mb compared to Georgia- 672k and the font attributes were missing. So This embedding another font worked...the 'Subset embedded' also helped to reduced file size (but this is another issue).

[theducks]

I know what subsetting is supposed to accomplish.
I was discussing trouble shooting the issue.
First step: Vanilla (full font glyph set)
Are you sure your TNR files are complete?
FWIW does the Nook have a native TNR? Maybe you don't want to embed that (and adjust the @font SRC)

[Ballory]

Originally Posted by theducks

I know what subsetting is supposed to accomplish.
First step: Vanilla (full font glyph set)
Are you sure your TNR files are complete?
FWIW does the Nook have a native TNR? Maybe you don't want to embed that (and adjust the @font SRC)

What is @fontSCR?
Nook app shows no native TNR, but Tried Embedding font family: Times New Roman - didn't check anything else. This was successful in the Nook app but I think Nook is showing Georgia instead of NTR. All Looks good on other apps too...FYI, I did run a check in the Calibre Editor that showed the following, but these were fixed:

WARNING: Filename contains unsafe characters****[fonts/Calibri - Bold.ttf]
WARNING: Filename contains unsafe characters****[fonts/Calibri - Regular.ttf]
WARNING: Filename contains unsafe characters****[fonts/Times New Roman - Bold.ttf]
WARNING: Filename contains unsafe characters****[fonts/Times New Roman - BoldItalic.ttf]
WARNING: Filename contains unsafe characters****[fonts/Times New Roman - Italic.ttf]
WARNING: Filename contains unsafe characters****[fonts/Times New Roman - Regular.ttf]
INFO: The bookmarks file used by the calibre E-book viewer is present****[META-INF/calibre_bookmarks.txt]

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Ballory

What is @fontSCR?
Nook app shows no native TNR, but Tried Embedding font family: Times New Roman - didn't check anything else. This was successful in the Nook app but I think Nook is showing Georgia instead of NTR. All Looks good on other apps too...FYI, I did run a check in the Calibre Editor that showed the following, but these were fixed:

WARNING: Filename contains unsafe characters****[fonts/Calibri - Bold.ttf]
WARNING: Filename contains unsafe characters****[fonts/Calibri - Regular.ttf]
WARNING: Filename contains unsafe characters****[fonts/Times New Roman - Bold.ttf]
WARNING: Filename contains unsafe characters****[fonts/Times New Roman - BoldItalic.ttf]
WARNING: Filename contains unsafe characters****[fonts/Times New Roman - Italic.ttf]
WARNING: Filename contains unsafe characters****[fonts/Times New Roman - Regular.ttf]
INFO: The bookmarks file used by the calibre E-book viewer is present****[META-INF/calibre_bookmarks.txt]

Unsafe chars is a warning about non ASCII in a file name (someone used a NBSP? in the name?

can you post the @font-face (s) from the CSS (I am assuming those were properly linked to the book files)

[Ballory]

Originally Posted by theducks

Unsafe chars is a warning about non ASCII in a file name (someone used a NBSP? in the name?

can you post the @font-face (s) from the CSS (I am assuming those were properly linked to the book files)

This is from the CSS, if this is what you want to see.

font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;
font-style: italic;
font-weight: bold;

font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Ballory

This is from the CSS, if this is what you want to see.

font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;
font-style: italic;
font-weight: bold;

font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;

you never told it where to find them

@font-face {
    font-style: italic;
    font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;
    src: url(../Fonts/Times.ttf)  <<the actualfilename: case sensitive
    }

[Ballory]

Originally Posted by theducks

you never told it where to find them

@font-face {
    font-style: italic;
    font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;
    src: url(../Fonts/Times.ttf)  <<the actualfilename: case sensitive
    }

Got it, I think this fixes it!
Thanks