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Old 08-19-2011, 12:24 PM   #31
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Embedding fonts in an epub seems to increase the file size greatly but if that's what we have to do to properly display non-English characters, so be it.
Or use a reader that lets you choose your own font, like Bookeen's Cybooks.
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Old 10-31-2011, 03:00 PM   #32
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As a wet-behind-the-ears self publisher, I am curious what kind of size limitations do ereaders have if a 40mb embedded font is considered to be too large?
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Old 10-31-2011, 07:35 PM   #33
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40mb file? I don't think there are limits...maybe tough for people to download though
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Old 10-31-2011, 08:43 PM   #34
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To say nothing of expecting the ereader to open the font. Just out of curiosity, which font do you have in mind? A link to its description is good enough... I thought the Chinese fonts I'd seen were only 4 MB or so.
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Old 11-01-2011, 02:41 AM   #35
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I know I want to embed fonts when I publish, but before I do I want to have an idea what is reasonable. I don't want to overload readers, for instance, so I was just pulling numbers from this thread:

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...This is what an Adobe staff person said about embedding UNICODE glyphs in ADE. It seems they feel the same about Cyrillic fonts:
"Full Unicode font support for all glyphs would bloat the Digital Editions download from ~6Mb to around 32 to 40 Mb. "... .
So I just went and looked at some numbers. The Font I will for sure be using just for the title is a free font called Rebel Caps which I am lucky to have in OpenType Format at 29.8kb I also have the TrueType font, which is much larger, weighing in at 87.7 kb. [http://www.dafont.com/rebel-caps.font]

The others I'd use are:

Play 167.1 kb
Goudy Bookletter 1911 39.1kb
Gentium (regular) 266.1 kb
(italic) + 259.9 kb

But I'm still figuring things out, and haven't decided for sure.
[And now I have to go write a murder to kick off my 2011 NaNoWriMo mystery.]
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Wow, ok, you said MB and not kb in the original post...no you'll be fine...Although as a rules I wouldn't embed any font at all
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I agree, only add fonts when it really add things and not for the body.
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Old 11-01-2011, 04:16 AM   #38
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I didn't try with embedded fonts, but my Orizon apparently does not use Arial Unicode (23 MB) or Code 2000 (8 MB). The largest font I have installed is Charis SIL (1.6 MB per weight and style), and I believe it works right.

I don't know how much RAM the Orizon has, but the Gen3 has 32MB, so I doubt it can use a 40MB font.
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