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Those with particularly poor eyesight should be able to substitute a font that's designed for maximum clarity, but other than that I don't see any reason for the majority of users to be mucking around with the fonts. We need to adjust the fonts now because the presentational standard of ebooks is so generally awful - that's not a state to which we should aspire. |
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04-12-2010, 02:34 PM | #17 |
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I agree with Charleski. Choosing the fonts, even the body text fonts, most appropriate to a given work is a task that should be assigned to the publisher, and is part of the art of publishing. Indeed, I think the authors of the book should have input, feedback and even veto power into it, whenever possible. (Though responsible publishers should resist wild choices on the parts of authors.)
That said, rendering devices should have the ability to override that choice, particularly when it is necessary for people with vision problems, or the font chosen clashes with a particular display medium, but generally, the fonts chosen should be considered part of the book. Last edited by frabjous; 04-12-2010 at 02:39 PM. |
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I manually subsetted a font, but only because it was a chinese font and I was using less than ten glyphs. (Font Forge did the trick.)
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Apart from all that, embedded fonts are well supported :-) Hopefully ADE will soon read IDPF obfuscated fonts, and so will iBooks. |
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