When compiling my book to PDF for upload to KDP the font style for one small section about a page long gets lost. The style I lose is Herculaneum. I’m not sure what I get but it is similar to palatino which is my default, but a few points larger.
Is there any way I can fix this please? I don’t have an Adobe account.
AFAIK, Herculaneum is a typeface, not a style. Is Herculaneum installed/enabled where you need it? That’s all I can figure.
Scrivener does not install fonts for copyright reasons. If you need to include a font in your epub/kf8, you need ensure you have the rights/paid for the rights to Herculaneum and install it via something like Sigil.
Mark
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Thanks carman,
I think what I’m saying is that I created a style in Scrivener for a section of text. That style used Herculaneum as the font/typeface. So the font/typeface is in Scrivener.
I don’t know if it’s installed in PDF.
Is there any way of finding out what fonts/typefaces are in both Scrivener and PDF so that I can choose one that looks right in both?
Hi Mark,
Thanks for helping.
I’m sure you are right about Scrivener not installing fonts for copyright reasons, but help me understand. I chose a default font (Palatino) for compiling in Scrivener and also specified typographical settings for some “special” sections of text. These combinations of font and typo I designated and saved as a style in Scrivener.
Now the default text looks fine in both PDF and epub versions. I’m not sure it is Palatino but it is not far off.
The ‘Styled’ sections are in much larger point font, and take up too much space.
Presumably PDF has some fonts included? Is there any way of finding out which? Or am I barking up the rwong tree?
The embedded fonts issue is only relevant to ebooks. For a PDF, you should be fine.
It sounds more likely that the Compile command is overriding the font.
Are you changing the font for the manuscript as a whole?
How specifically did you define the Herculaneum section? Did you create a named Style, or did you just select that text and change the font?
Thanks kewms,
In answer to your question, the default font is Palatino, which is 99% of the book. That works fine. I have two small sections where I use a different font. One section contains a note which is being read and I need to distinguish the text in the note from the text in the book. The other section contains a page from a book. Again I need to distinguish this from the ‘authorial voice’.
In both cases I have set up a new style, containing a different font, spacing point size etc. and named it.
It’s possible that in the numerous iterations I have lost the style - although the style name is still displayed when I place the cursor in that text. I have just gone back and set up a new style for each in turn.
The result is much the same as before.
The EPub version displays a slightly larger version of the “styled text” in default font.
The PDF version has picked up a new font size and looks emboldened, but is not the new font.
So close to finishing this book now (after 4 years!) and I’m a little frustrated.
Just to double-check, if you go to one of these sections in the binder, put the cursor in it, and then use the Format ▸ Style ▸ Redefine Style from Selection submenu to pick your styled: does it have the Include font family (and possibly size) checkbox enabled?
If it does, then go into the compile format designer, and double-check that this style isn’t listed in the Styles pane, or if it is, that it reproduces the look you want. If it’s not in the list then it should be preserving the original formatting. Having it in the list lets you change how it looks on compile (which would probably be useful for ePub, since as noted above, system fonts you may use are seldom installed on ebook readers—so you’ll want some other presentation hints, like indents or font size, to help the reader).