Fonts to Kindle

Question

I'm converting a print book to an ebook and I'm hoping somebody here can answer a couple of basic questions.
The workflow I'm using is to export from ID as an epub, then import into Calibre and convert to Mobi.
You can embed fonts into an epub, but ID refuses to embed one of my fonts, and one only. The error message doesn't help much: "Some fonts were not embedded. Futura-Bold" According to FontBook Futura bold is "embeddable". Anybody have any idea why that font won't get embedded?
Second, it looks like Kindle ignores embedded fonts, anyway. (As does Adobe Digital Editions.) So I'm curious whether there's a description anywhere of what Kindle does font-wise -- which font attributes it respects and which it ignores. Would an iBook ignore fonts, as well?
And finally -- is there a place to go with questions like this? I feel like I'm reinventing the wheel.
Thanks to any and all for any light anybody can shed.
Steve

Answer 1

AnneMarie -- I just finished your tutorial. Watched the whole thing over a period of a few days. Great job! Terrific, super-helpful. And, as I guess everybody here knows -- you are a helluva good teacher. I say this as somebody who has taught motion picture editing for years and who is creating a book about it.
Which brings me to some questions.
First -- images. I've got hundreds of screenshots with callouts. They are grouped and they are inline. But, as discussed, they callouts get separated on export. The only thing I can think of is to export as a jpeg and then place the jpeg. Or maybe I could use Layout Zone, which I think, would force ID to create the jpegs for me, when the file is exported. The images are roughly the right size now -- about 3.5" wide on the printed page. When ID exports them at 72 ppi, they look way too small in the Kindle. The reason is that the Kindle screen is 167 ppi. 4.5" at 72 ppi is more like 2" at 167 ppi. You can barely see these things.
I've done a lot of experimentation and it seems like the best answer is to export the jpegs at 150 ppi, then place them, then export to epub and select original images in export options. (I have CS4.) Such images look good, partly because Kindle will scale them if they're too big for the screen. Does this make sense? Or am I shooting myself in the foot somehow?
Second, file names. There are 25 chapters in this book. All the filenames have spaces in them. If I change the filenames now, all chapter-to-chapter cross references are going to break, because they rely on pathnames. I'll have to update over 100 cross references by hand. Can I live with the chapter names? Is there a way to change them and automatically update the cross-references?
Third, the index. You mentioned in the tutorial that indexes get dumped. My index has a good 600-700 items in it. I can't really imagine recreating every entry as a cross reference. Is there anything I can do? Do readers expect an index in an ebook?
Thanks again for a terrific tutorial -- and thanks to anybody here who can help with these questions,
Steve