04-03-2010, 08:04 AM | #1 |
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ADE and Hindi Language
Hi all,
I am trying to create an epub for Hindi language. I am aware that I need to embed fonts for it to display properly. Looking at the examples available I have been able to do so. But I still face 2 majors issues: a) Contents on the left panel(TOC) are still being displayed as ????. Though, it gets render fine in the center panel. Reason which i can think of is, no style.css being included in the toc.ncx file. Can someone please tell me, if thats the problem or something else? In case, the problem is because of toc.ncx file, then how can I included the stylesheet in that.. b) The choti matra for 'e' renders after the character.. I have tried diff variants to Hindi fonts to get rid of this.. But no relief so far.. Please note: *The same epub opens fine on Calibre, Firefox Epub Reader. I am having issues with ADE in particular. *Fonts tried Lohit/gargi/gurumaa/mangal *I am having the same problem with Tamil language too. Any kind of help in this regard will be simply great. Looking forward to hear from experts. Regards, Gunjan |
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The TOC issue is a known bug in mobile ADE: it always uses the default font to display the TOC. I don't think there is any work around, although it just occurred to me that there is a very small chance that redefining the default font (serif) in the CSS might work:
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@font-face { font-family: "MSYaHei", serif, sans-serif; The choti matra bug can probably only be fixed by Adobe. It is caused by the choti matra coming after the letter it applies to in the text stream, but before it on the screen. So this isn't fixable with a font change. Last edited by wallcraft; 04-03-2010 at 09:45 AM. |
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As far as I know there are only two solutions: If you are an end user and want to read Tamil books in your device, you can try to find information how to change the system font of your reader (or you buy another reader, a good one now!) If you are a vendor, you can hardly expect that all your clients start adapting the firmware. In this case the only thing you can do is give a warning to your customers. Something like: Attention, books in Tamil cannot be read properly on these devices: Sony ... etc. I think you really need a list of devices here. Telling that readers based on ADE are no good, isn't a solution. Most of your customers probably aren't aware what ADE is. Not everyone is a member of this forum. |
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@wallcraft - I have not tried this on Pi, but on my system(both linux/ Windows environment) it is not working properly.
I wonder if Adobe is aware of this problem of 'matras'. |
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1. The table of contents of the book. This will indeed use the device font which may or may not support the appropriate characters. A way around this is to have an "internal" TOC in the book itself, implemented with hyperlinks. 2. The list of books on the device - ie the "library". This may display metadata from the book or it may simply display the filename, depending on the device. |
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In addition, the system font used by the library is typically different from the one used by Adobe Digital Editions. In my experience, most vendor's use a reasonably capable font for its library view.
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I know, but what I'm saying is that this is not because the Sony PRS-505 uses "and old version of ADE" because even current ADE still does this. The glyph coverage is the same across the versions.
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You are correct. I did not say exactly what I meant. The behavior of using certain glyphs have changed but the set is the same.
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