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Old 08-19-2010, 05:41 AM   #18
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Question Embedding a subset to get Unicode in there?

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Originally Posted by shall1028 View Post
There is a place for saving space. [...] A quick perusal of my font folder shows 161 files only 60 of which exceed 400K.
I have a problem in that the ePub I've just painstakingly produced (and which displays fine on my PC in Sigil, Calibre and EPUBReader/Firefox), fails totally in Adobe Digital Editions -- because it contains a few Unicode characters (not even on the roadmap for ADE, it appears: see http://forums.adobe.com/thread/314859)

Some might be relatively easy to fix with a smallish font (vowels with macrons, used throughout the text), but there are also about a dozen Japanese characters used on just 2 pages, for which the only solution I can think of is embedding a whole Japanese font file -- around 5MB. Not ideal, huh?

If there were some way to subset this in ePub that would be great, but I've not seen it anywhere. I suppose an alternative would be to 'extract' the characters from a Japanese font whose licensing terms allow it (I bet MS Mincho doesn't) and create a new font from them, just for this one book, which seems a bit silly -- and I suspect will also break various reading systems.

Any advice?
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