10-29-2011, 10:04 AM | #16 |
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I have been using embedded fonts on my PRST1 and I have been using the generic font-family name rather than the specific for the labels, i.e.
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@font-face {font-family: serif; ... etc} body {font-family: serif; ... etc} Code:
@font-face {font-family: "Charis"; ... etc} body {font-family: "Charis"; ... etc} Given that the PRST1's font override feature is less than satisfactory (unpredictable loss of italics/bold) I am rather glad that embedded fonts do work correctly. Last edited by jackie_w; 10-29-2011 at 10:07 AM. |
10-29-2011, 10:45 AM | #17 |
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But that's how it's done. Why do you think it's a forcing of an embedded font on the reader? I would think it's harder to override an embedded font if it's placed in all the different paragraph styles. When you look at the default ADE font, you find that it's not all that nice. It has fake italics that in the serif body font doesn't look nice.
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The new Star Wars eBooks all have an embedded font and yet Kobo will not display it at all. As for forcing, it's not forcing a font on the user. |
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10-29-2011, 10:52 AM | #20 |
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It's not forcing. You have it all wrong. Besides, if the reader allows one to change the base font, then that embedded font should be changeable. And you may end up liking the font used. But please don't call it forced. It's not.
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10-29-2011, 11:45 AM | #21 | |
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There's two things in an ebook that should never be hard-coded: Normal body-text fonts, and normal body-text sizes. |
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I wouldn't say it's needed. For readers that allow setting the text font it's the same situation, because the user can always choose a font with the appropriate glyph coverage. It's only "needed" to work around a "feature" in some readers, that force a default font on you.
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11-17-2011, 10:25 PM | #26 |
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