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I currently produce ePub but not LRF | 12 | 22.64% | |
I currently produce LRF but not ePub | 20 | 37.74% | |
I currently produce ePub and LRF | 9 | 16.98% | |
I currently produce neither ePub or LRF | 2 | 3.77% | |
I will produce ePub when non-Sony devices support ePub | 6 | 11.32% | |
I will produce ePub if Sony stops supporting LRF | 3 | 5.66% | |
I do not plan on ever supporting ePub | 4 | 7.55% | |
I need better tools to support ePub | 15 | 28.30% | |
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12-29-2008, 04:38 AM | #16 |
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I could use a user-friendly (but not too "smart") .opf and .ncx editor. Having to manually add and name every file in the manifest, and make sure everything is in the spine can be a pain... the same with the "playOrder" in the .ncx.
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12-29-2008, 02:49 PM | #17 | |
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Unfortunately the tools that I've had exposure to have not presented to me the availability to embed fonts in epub. Perhaps they are commandline and I just need to research more on the topic. For the time being I've had fairly consistent results with embedding fonts in PDF, RTF, DOC, and LRF which are a necessity for me as a linguistic student. Any tips? I would love to make the switch to Epub knowing this will truly be the standard. |
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12-29-2008, 03:03 PM | #18 |
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Oh, fair enough. I wasn't counting PDF as an e-book format, and didn't realize RTF had font embedding / supported it on the Reader. LRF definitely does it, but I was under the impression it could still be a bit chancy given our knowledge of the format, but I haven't looked at it in a while. By comparison EPUB font embedding is drop-dead simple -- include the font files in the ZIP archive and reference them via @font-face rules in the included CSS. |
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12-29-2008, 07:16 PM | #21 |
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12-30-2008, 12:29 AM | #22 |
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Oh, I know -- that's part of why I haven't just jumped in and implemented it myself . I do think that supporting adding fonts and @font-face rules for 'serif', 'sans-serif', and 'monospace' would cover at least 80% of uses though.
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12-30-2008, 12:44 AM | #23 |
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There's actually a reasonably powerful class in the matplotlib source code that takes a CSS font family name and maps it to the "closest" font on your system. That could be used to take care of documents that specify their own font families.
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12-30-2008, 04:34 AM | #24 | |
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If you use the provided index.zip (as explained in the post) to read the book in a web browser, you should see full justification. This is so because there is index.css on top of the book's css, and there you have "body { text-align: justify }". This "trick" is what I'd expect ePUB readers could use (i.e., have a user-configurable css), but apparently they don't (yet). Besides, it seems Adobe DE (and Sony) don't support full justification at all, even if it were called for by the book itself. But as others have said, this is not a problem of ePUB, but of the readers (well, ePUB's is to blame in that full justification is not a required feature, I think) |
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12-30-2008, 04:57 AM | #25 |
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12-30-2008, 05:37 AM | #26 |
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12-30-2008, 07:56 PM | #27 |
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On which side ? I hate ragged right, I can only read fully justified text with good hyphenation. I can't understand at all why DE supports something as complicated as XSL-FO, yet doesn't allow the user to select this sort of things.
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12-30-2008, 08:18 PM | #28 |
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Wasn't the question if it should be a required feature or not and to me it seems that requiring it will make it harder to implement viewers on some platforms.
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12-30-2008, 09:09 PM | #29 |
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Oops, sorry Hadrien. Coffee's on me.
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12-30-2008, 09:42 PM | #30 |
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Justification is a very simple thing to support. Sure it might not look very good on small screens but even in a low ressource environment it's pretty easy to support.
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