04-17-2015, 06:51 AM | #1 |
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Publisher Fonts option not shown when using send to Kindle
When testing a mobi file on my Kindle, I noticed that it was not showing the option to view Publisher Font on the font popup window after I had sent it by the Send To Kindle app or by email. However, when I sideload the mobi file from my mac into the Kindle, the Publisher Font option is displayed. Has anyone else noticed this? Is this bug or a feature? I'm a bit concerned whether this will happen when the book is finally published on Amazon.
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04-18-2015, 05:22 PM | #2 |
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I vaguely recall reading that "send to Kindle" strips off the KF8 slice and sends only the MOBI slice. I could be wrong, though.
To be safe, after you it to KDP, but before you publish the book, use their online previewer. |
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04-19-2015, 05:20 AM | #3 |
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That's correct. Or at least it's true of the mail-to option, which I think is the same thing. Only the Mobi 7 file is delivered.
MeisterMac, you could get a surer result by uploading to the KDP, letting it convert, then downloading the resulting "mobi" document. It contains both the Mobi 7 and the KF8 files, and probably your original document as well. |
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email-to-Kindle when sending a dual-MOBI will result in KF8 being sent to supported devices. This was a relatively recent change, and people have been using the loophole to email KF8 with fonts, among other things.
You can tell if the device got KF8 because the cover will be stripped. Note: Send-to-Kindle is not even slightly a good way of simulating the buying-from-store experience. It has several exceedingly odd glitches. |
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Ah, thanks for the update!
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Well, for a given value of recent, anyway. Can't remember when people noticed this and reported their successes, probably sometime late 2014 if I had to hazard a total guess.
Someone even said when emailing things to be converted, instead of a premade MOBI, the PDOC conversion made a dual-MOBI and sent KF8 to their supported device. And they still haven't fixed the cover problem. |
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Thanks for the replies folks. I have a better understanding of what is happening now. I trust Amazon will get it right when I come to publish the book.
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04-23-2015, 05:31 AM | #8 |
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Hitch reports an ongoing problem with embedded fonts and font calls (i.e., for Courier/monospace) at Amazon.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=259398 Perhaps related? |
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One of my professional colleagues (one I respect) called me yesterday about this, and I know it's been a problem (fonts of ANY KIND) since at least Thursday the 9th. I know about the issue because one of my red-carpet clients had four books due, for a big promo, the weekend of the 10th, and s/he uses a chapter-head font. None of his/her books were building correctly, ONCE at the KDP (post in-house mobi-build). It's a very deep issue. If you even do something like just put a monospace font CALL, in the CSS, the resulting Step-6 mobi will have that line in the CSS file REMOVED (when you deconstruct the mobi with mobiunpack). Fonts are stripped, entirely (the font files removed from the OEBPS). So: if you are not a master bookmaker, and you run into this, it's not you. It's Amazon. I emailed them about this on the 9th, and as of the end of that weekend, they didn't seem to have it resolved at their end. At that time, I advised them that we'd worked around it, and thus, have not had ongoing communication with them on the topic, I'll leave that to someone else. They know about it, and given that my colleague called me yesterday, using his normal methodology, presumably, it's not fixed, and mayn't be. I don't believe that they know what the issue IS, or what they did, that caused this. But the normal methods of building MOBIs, ePUBs, etc., with fonts no longer works. I'm only adding this here in case it's relevant, based on NJ's post. I didn't read the thread to know if it is. Hitch |
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Sounds like that could indeed be the problem.
Hey -- why does Amazon always seem to have this problem? I always see you discussing it, has Amazon ever fixed it? Do they just keep on getting the problem back again? What the blankety-blank? Perhaps I should be glad I don't have your job. |
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FWIW. Sorry, didn't mean to sound like some pity-party, just responding to your comment. Hitch |
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Yep, I get it.
I do wonder a bit why you even bother anymore. Surely there is some other industry that would appreciate your talents more. |
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Charles Seper has this to say on the subject:
If this was true yesterday, it isn't true today. I just tried it and monospace works all by its lonesome. This is what works for monospace: font-family: monospace; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace These do NOT work: font-family: 'Courier New', monospace font-family: Courier, monospace As to heading fonts, they've been very hit and miss for a long time now. Some fonts work, others don't. And some only work if you list them in a specific way. My way of making helvetica still works fine: font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif Specifying Arial doesn't: font-family: Arial, sans-serif |
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I suspect our facility with it is because of all the white-label and INDD work that we do; we have to make fonts work. Most conversion houses don't even offer it, so...{shrug}. And frankly, if we're one of the few that's figured out the secret sauce, {more shrugging}, then that's okay with me, too. Odin knows, we've certainly put enough hours into it, not only initially, but during the prior wonkiness in 2014, and now again with this new bit of crazy, to want to recoup some of the costs of figuring it out. After all, troubleshooting at my shop isn't freebies to me; there are very real, hard, cash costs associated with that. Hitch |
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