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Jennie Lee Reading Tell Me I'm Here - Anne Deveson

01 Sep 2012, 09:03 AM | Post: #51

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

Is this resolved for everyone now?

I believe that the problem Amazon had with my file for What Happened to Polly was that I had used a font that was not installed on the Kindle Touch device. I had changed the font to Times New Roman 12 on the actual document but the conversion program likely ignored that and read in from the Styles and Formatting section.

I have uploaded another file with the Style changed to TNR 12 so hopefully new readers will not be bothered by the font changing on them. A reader sent me this link a while ago -- it says there have been several new software updates for the "device-specific" problem but the problem has still not been fixed.

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01 Sep 2012, 10:18 AM | Post: #52

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

I fixed Rosen and David's books 'manually' and they used the same work-arounds themselves later. I would not be surprised to learn that the problem is not actually fixed however - it isn't the conversion process which is broken, it is the renderer and it is one of those things where any change would need extensive testing before putting live.

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01 Sep 2012, 11:56 AM | Post: #53

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

How does one find out if the books read badly? (Apart from unhasppy emails?)

I'm about to start building a book and I had hoped this would be fixed by now.

RThe other worry is what about books I published a while back... are they likely to be affected?

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01 Sep 2012, 07:21 PM | Post: #54

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

Older books will not be effected if they were published (roughly) prior to the K Touch release. For the new one... What format are you uploading to Amazon?

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01 Sep 2012, 10:15 PM | Post: #55

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

I've been making a prc file via mobipocket creator in the past, or the html. I liked doing the mobipocket thing because I could put the cover and the contents together, but now Amazon don't have a box to untick if your cover is already included. Why the heck they have to keep changing it I don't know.

I was thinking of doing the mobipocket thing because that way I can email it to my Kindle in hopefully the format it will look like (ish) after uploading to KDP. I'm reading it on my Kindle just now, and apart from typos etc, it seems OK.

I find the best way for me is to make it all Normal text, then the chapter headers Heading 1, remove all extraneous spaces, keep it as simple as possible, and load that up. I used a filtered html file to make the draft book today. I don't know the difference between a filtered web page and just a web page.

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02 Sep 2012, 04:59 PM | Post: #56

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

Ooer, pressed Publish because I've run out of time. I hope and pray it's OK.

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02 Sep 2012, 05:58 PM | Post: #57

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

Fingers crossed!

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25 Oct 2012, 06:59 PM | Post: #58

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

(02 Sep 2012 05:58 PM)J.S.Egan Wrote: Fingers crossed!

Indeed! As far as I'm concerned, the problem just got worse, not better. Everything was fine on my Kindle
3G until I made the mistake of downloading a book direct to the device (instead of to my PC). I got the message 'Your Kindle is updated, sincerely, the Amazon Team'.

Thanks, but no thanks - now I have some books I can't read because the font is too small (as reported by so many others), but not all books have the problem, and everything I've downloaded from Project Gutenberg is fine.

Here's what I know:

For this older model Kindle, to find out which Version of the software you've got, got to Home, Menu, and select Settings.
At the bottom right of the Settings screen it will say 'Version Kindle 3.3' or 'Version Kindle 3.4'.
Version 3.3 does not have the font problem, 3.4 does, so an author checking her book on 3.3 will not know whether the book displays properly in 3.4 or not. My wife has refused to update her model, and she doesn't get the problem. Tricky! (Kindle Touch etc have different Versions, maybe 5.1??)

Various techniques have been described here and on the US Forum for cleaning up the filtered HTML file for your book. Here is how I do it on a PC:

My Word document is set up with Normal text as font 12.0, Heading1 as font 14.0 and Titles font 18.0, what I do is replace each of these font sizes with the % option, where 100%=font 12.0, as follows
Save the Word document as filtered html
Load the html file into Notepad
Look down the file in Notepad until you find the first occurrence of font-size:12.0; so you are clear about the syntax (I select this text so I can copy it)
Click Edit, and select Replace - fill in the fields as follows:
Find what: font-size:12.0
Replace with: font-size:100%
Now click the Replace button as many times as it finds this font size.
Go back to the top of the file, and repeat,
Replacing font-size:14.0 with font-size:120%
then font-size:18.0% with font-size:150%
Your file should now be clean, but I do one more check:
Get out of Replace, select Edit/Find and find all occurrences of font-size - make sure they are all changed to a %
Now SAVE the altered file, and load to KDP.

This procedure is easier than it looks. Earlier posters here have suggested using ems rather than % - I assume this is just as good, but I find the % format easier to comprehend - just me.

I tested this by loading the unedited file to KDP, saved as draft, showed font error. Repeat with edited file, fonts perfect.
What a nightmare! I hope Amazon tells us when a fix is released...

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25 Oct 2012, 08:02 PM | Post: #59

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RE: Font-sizing problem after Kindle update

Can I correct one slight misunderstanding - I didn't suggest using ems - I speculated that the problem was caused by the K8 file format using ems, and suffering rounding errors in the process of converting from pts.

Otherwise - yes - this is pretty much what I did to clean up the problem books Smile

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