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I would love to easily be able to do font subsetting. |
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Then what happens if you need the Mah Jongg tiles? You'd need some kind of sanity check to make sure the glyphs you needed were included.
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Professional PDF creation software checks what glyphs are used in the document, and produces a custom font files that includes only those glyphs. It should be possible to do the same for ePubs. |
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Does this produce an actual font file that we can embed? What is the process using Adobe Acrobat?
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So I suppose it would be possible, if you have Distiller, or some other PDF creation programme that sub-sets, to do the process manually if you really wanted to. |
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I'll have to give this a try and see how easy it is to do. I could in theory go from ePub > HTML > Word > PDF > Distiller > Fontforge and produce the subsetted fonts I want.
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As a first step: make sure that my memory that FontForge can extract fonts from a PDF is correct!
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2.) in some cases the font's license would forbid complete inclusion, where including only the characters used; just as it is done when you include fonts in PDFs would be covered by the license. |
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I did find a Windows compiled version from July 2012. So that should do me just fine. It's a matter now of installing and testing if it will work with a PDF with fonts.
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See, this is the part I'm having trouble with. I find it odd that a font license would allow you to decompile the font and then embed a subset of it, if you can't embed the whole thing. Course IANAL so that might have something to do with it.
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http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/info/embedding.html
"Preview & Print: A font with an embedding permission of Preview & Print allows the font, either fully or as a subset, to be embedded in an electronic document solely for the purpose of viewing that document on screen and/or printing that document. While a font with a Preview & Print embedding permission (either through data in the font file or the font’s license agreement) may be embedded in an electronic document, the embedded font may not be used to further edit the document it is contained in or to edit or create other documents. Most fonts in the Adobe Type Library are set for Preview & Print embedding." |
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A fully embedded font could be used after extraction by the books purchaser. A partly embedded one will most likely have too many "holes" to be of use for pretty everything than the book it was shipped within.
Given that some of the fonts are costly I understand that a font creator rather dislikes the idea of people getting potential access to a font worth X after having paid just a fraction of ot for an epub file. |
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