12-21-2010, 06:15 PM | #46 |
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Hi everyone - I'm investigating this with our team to see if this is a feature we need to add, or a bug in our implementation. As soon as I have an answer I'll post it here.
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12-21-2010, 06:16 PM | #47 |
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I think embedded fonts make a big difference, and did find it a frustrating thing that my kobo didn't display them (well, it *did* display them, but only after a lot of frigging with Calibre - that program does crazy shtuff to the css if your not careful!)
Anywho, Having got the fonts to work on the kobo (such as Charis in the Millenium books - and about half the other books I have, popular font that) I can confirm that there was ab-sol-ut-ly no performance 'issues' using the embedded fonts, none at all. But I will say that (after giving up on the promised firmware update - a week before it arrived!) It is nice that my new PRS-650 just displays the fonts, no mucking about with code etc. ..and again *no* speed issues, it just powers along no bother. |
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Working as intended (ie. embedded fonts do not work at all) = not a bug. Partially working embedded fonts when not intended to work at all = bug. Embedded fonts suppose to have full support but don't = bug. |
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Not exactly....it's what I thought as well when I finally came accross this implementations, but in the test books I made, as soon as the body was declared, it overode any other font defined in other style tag in the code. Again, only on the kobo; in Sigil, Calibre and ADE, it works as you think it would. |
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Been playing around with embedded fonts and finally got the hang of it. After thinking about this, while the fault may be with the Kobo and not allowing embedded font declaration in the body css style. The work around in declaring it in other tags really isn't as much of a problem as I first thought.
Simply declaring it like: p { font-family: "CharisR";} works equally well. As regards performance issues, well maybe grampa (had to look up Arpanet) troll has performance issues but not my Kobo. No noticeable start-up lag on my epubs from the menu or sleep, and none on page turns. |
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Here's my guess. For the Kobo to be able to switch from serif to non-serif, it uses a css sheet that is located on /.kobo/adobe/pxf/userStyle.css, which says:
body { font: serif; } Since this usersheet overrides the css in the book, if the font is declared the body, it is ignored. That being said, the existence of this Style sheet could be used for all kinds of neat stuff, including changing the fonts in all of the books if you place your fonts somewhere in the Kobo memory. I haven't tried any of these, but someone else might look into it. My guess, however, is that anytime you change to serif or non-serif from the menu, this css sheet is rewritten. Or maybe it get's rewirtten at startup. |
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12-28-2010, 07:22 PM | #60 |
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Bug or no bug, you could a lot of neat things with margins and fonts IF that sheet works like I suppose it does. I would love to mess around a bit with it right, but I'm too busy reading in my Kobo right now
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