Skip to main content
kyriosity
kyriosity
Inspiring
November 9, 2016
Question

Special characters/character styles not exporting

  • November 9, 2016
  • 2 replies
  • 473 views

This is a new one to me. On the book I'm trying to export, none of my character styles (italics, bold, etc.) are exporting to EPUB. And none of my special characters (em dashes, registered trademark symbol, etc.) are showing up correctly. Any ideas? Of course this is a title that we are particularly keen to get published today, which just seems to invite the gremlins into the process, eh? ;^)

Thanks!

~Valerie

This topic has been closed for replies.

2 replies

kyriosity
kyriosityAuthor
Inspiring
November 11, 2016

No thoughts on this one?

Steve Werner
Community Expert
Steve WernerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 11, 2016

You might have to ask on the Kindle forums. It's clearly not something that has anything to do with InDesign.

kyriosity
kyriosityAuthor
Inspiring
November 9, 2016

A little more info: In the Kindle previewer, it actually looks OK if I set the device to Kindle Voyage or Kindle DX, but the previews in any of the Fires are a mess. The iOS previews are blank, but that may be because I'm on a PC. I usually just preview on Fire (and have never seen these issues before), so I've never even tried the iOS settings before.

Update: I switched the fonts -- changed from Baskerville to Georgia -- and that took care of the special characters issue (yay typographer's quotes!), but not the bold/italics style issue.

Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices