Thread: PRS-505 Any way to make epub files look more like LRF?
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Old 03-16-2011, 05:32 PM   #23
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Device: Sony PRS-500 (RIP); PRS-600 (Good Riddance); PRS-505; PRS-650; PRS-350
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Originally Posted by kartu View Post
In short: yes.

In details: font rendering engine knows how to make it "bold" or "italic" having only "normal" font. But humans could produce better "bold" fonts than some silly scripts, so for some fonts "manually" created bold/italic/etc version is also supplied. If bold/italic/etc version of the font is missing, system will fall back to the first option, it will generate it (on the fly).
Thanks! Precise answer to a question I didn't feel like I could clearly ask!

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Originally Posted by Poppaea View Post
Weird! I learned the deDRMing only to be able to convert the epubs into lrf as I like it better. lrf has the better font sizes and often comes with different font than Sonys standard fonts embedded which I also like. Why would you like to change it as long as there is no obvious reason for it?
I, too, prefer LRFs. But as the industry moves toward ePUB, that is becoming the standard, and Sony will inevitably drop LRF support entirely... I suspect in the next Reader revision.

The other reason is that no other device supports LRF. I would love to have books on my iPhone in a pinch when I don't have my Reader, but since Apple rejected Sony's Reader program, and Sony isn't likely to resubmit it under the new (insane) rules, ePUB is the best way to do this. (OT: Does the Android version of the Reader program support LRF?)

I have developed a pretty good ePUB setup that mimics LRF very well, and even creates a margin so the 1000x damned page numbers don't bleed into text on the PRS-505 series. (Still no firmware update Sony? They're great with hardware design, but suck massively in terms of software.) I can't wait to try referencing LRF Sony fonts!

In terms of line spacing, JSWolf, you can adjust it with the line-height metric (use "em" rather than "pt"), though I suspect you already knew that.

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