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J.S.Egan Reading

07 Jul 2012, 08:41 PM | Post: #11

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

How clean is the CSS? Did the html start off as a Word document? (If so, the CSS is probably a mess, which would explain the problem.) You could try running it through HTML Tidy - http://infohound.net/tidy/

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07 Jul 2012, 09:13 PM | Post: #12

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

The filtered HTML in the latest word is pretty good - much better than the old word. I always open my code in UltraEdit to have a quick tweak afterwards but I'm very disciplined in my use of Word, always setting up styles. In my HTML, my fonts are all declared in css at the top, never at paragraph level, so it's very easy to see what's going on.

I really think that the problem is with Amazon's latest Kindle update. Otherwise, why would my code yield perfect results when the .mobi is displayed on anything but a recently updated Kindle.

I'm reluctant to spend any more time simplifying my code when there is so much evidence that there's a problem at Amazon's end.

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07 Jul 2012, 09:15 PM | Post: #13

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

Fortunately however, The Ghost of Mandy Rosental (or at least, the free chapters) don't suffer from this problem.

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08 Jul 2012, 05:45 AM | Post: #14

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

I stripped almost *all* the formatting. There is nothing in-line, and this...

.Emphasis
{
font-style:italic;
}
.Script
{
font-style:italic;
}
.Center
{
text-align: center;
}
.Header
{
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
}

... is my entire CSS! No font-family or font-size, so it just falls back to the defaults.

I do totally agree that this is Amazon's fault - there is a bug in the Kindle's renderer - but I have just learned from long (and bitter) experience with software that it doesn't matter if the bug is in Microsoft's code - if it manifests itself in your software, you are the one who gets shot ^^

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08 Jul 2012, 09:29 AM | Post: #15

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

I had an email discussion about this exact problem with David. We tried several things and could only conclude that it was either a problem with Kindle Format 8 or the latest firmware on the Kindle Wi-Fi.

If anyone manages to solve the problem, please let us know.

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08 Jul 2012, 09:39 AM | Post: #16

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

I'm still up for looking at it, if you want to send me a mobi which exhibits the problem. (Needs to be the mobi not the azw 'cos I don't want to install DRM cracks on my PC!)

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08 Jul 2012, 03:38 PM | Post: #17

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

It seems that there's a problem with The Time Hunters by Carl Ashmore as mentioned on this Amazon thread http://www.amazon.co.uk...

I've cross referenced him back to here.

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08 Jul 2012, 04:06 PM | Post: #18

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

This post was last modified: 08 Jul 2012 04:06 PM by Rosen Trevithick.

Thanks Joo - perhaps I'll collate details of the many books experiencing this problem and send them to Amazon.

They did write to be today to say they'd inspected my file and could neither see a problem with it, nor replicate the problem. I've written back suggesting that they try it on a new Kindle or updated Kindle.

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09 Jul 2012, 12:18 PM | Post: #19

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

As Rosen and Lou both know, I've been struggling with this formatting issues for a while. I've been using Scrivener to produce .mobi files to upload to Amazon. They work perfectly well on Kindle 3s and 4s, but as soon as the Kindles receive the most recent upgrade to 4.1.0 (1615370055), the text becomes minuscule. The same problem happens on a Kindle Touch.

Amazon emailed me today to claim that the problem was the formatting in my book, which is clearly not the case - if it was, it would never have displayed fine prior to the upgrade. Here's a copy of my reply.

Quote: Hi,
Thank you for your email on this issue. I have checked my book file and cannot find any forced alignment. All the text is left justifed as a default, and I cannot imagine this would cause a formatting error.
Please test this book on a Kindle 3 or 4 which has not received the latest software upgrade. You will find that the text displays normally. It is only on a Kindle which has been upgraded, or a Kindle Touch, that the formatting problem occurs. The issue is with the Kindle 4.1.0 (1615370055) upgrade, NOT with the book formatting.
I am in contact with several other authors experiencing the same formatting issues. You can read a discussion of this problem on the UK Kindle Users Forum at http://www.kuforum.co.uk...
Please let me know if you can help further, as this issue will undoubtedly affect more and more Kindle owners as they install the upgrade.
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09 Jul 2012, 12:26 PM | Post: #20

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

David: I am still happy to look at this and try to find the problem - I do stuff like this for a living, so while I can't promise I can find what causes it, I can give it a good go. Just email me the .mobi! I'm sure we can find a work-around here. And we need one - even when Amazon eventually admit the problem, they will take more time to fix it.

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