Converting EPUB to MOBI seems to work locally but fails KDP validation
We are new inDesign users (learning it for about 2 months). We created a children's Illustrated book - about 40 pages, full spread pictures, etc. We exported it to a fixed layout EPUB. It looks fine in the "Kindle Previewer" and we generated a MOBI file from the "Kindle Previewer".. Re-opened the mobi file and it looked good (as expected).
When we uploaded it to KDP, we had a "Quality issue" opened against it for "Formatting - Overlapping text". We went back and forth a couple of times, uploaded new versions, but still couldn't get beyond the issue.. Their support sent us a picture of what they were seeing, and the Fonts used in version they have are not the fonts that we had in the book - the text is "scrunched" together in (guessing) what looks like a basic or default font.
We went back to the EPUB, renamed it to a ZIP file and unzipped it... We can see the fonts included in it. I wasn't sure how to look at the MOBI to see if it may be missing the fonts so I also downloaded "Kindle for PC" to a couple of separate computers and verified the generated MOBI loads and looked fine on both of them, so we're not sure why they are not seeing the fonts?
I think I read somewhere that Fonts might be stripped from MOBI files when they are uploaded to KDP?, so we just uploaded the EPUB and have yet to hear back from them... But thought I would ask just in case.
At this point I am almost contemplating putting the text directly in my Photoshop illustrations rather than InDesign so that they become part of the pictures. But it makes it so much harder to perform updates to text styles, fonts, etc.. Anyway, any suggestions?
I am using:
Adobe InDesign CC 15.0.1 x64
The epub file is a fixed format
epub version is 3.0
The embedded fonts are Adobe Fonts (from the unpacked EPUB):
- FairyTaleJF-Regular.otf
- Litania-Regular.otf
- RemedyOT-Double.otf
- RobotoSlab-Regular.ttf (all though im not sure why its there - its not used in my book)
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