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Originally Posted by alexqwerty159
Kacir, that was informative ! I know very little about fonts and I'm a little lost (hinting, interpolations, rasterisations, antialiasing etc). So you're saying that perhaps libprs500
utilises space more effectively (with between-letter/line indentations) so the same line can appear much bolder than any inbuild font ?
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Imagine a capital i letter.
It appears as a single straight plain line.
The height of the letter I is (I am going to invent some numbers here, just as an example) the height is 20.7 pixels. The width is 2.3 pixels. With hinting the I letter is forced to align with pixel grid, so the height will be rounded to 20.0 pixels and its width will be rounded to 2 pixels. As a result two letters, one 16 and the other 16.5 point height will appear to be the same.
The lines of the hinted font are aligned to the borders of the pixels.
A picture is worth more than a thousand words, so have a look at this
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/...ingVersus.mspx
For a good simple explanation see
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html
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Originally Posted by alexqwerty159
But here's what I don't get:
If I create such an rtf file (with wordpad or open office) and I import it directly to PRS-500 then the reader formats it at first, yes Arial of the correct size show up
but it losses a lot of set up info. (lines are cut mid screen but most importantly margins are not kept, it seems the reader automatically assigns it's own margins which are too big especially the top and bottom one).
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I use OpenOffice.org Writer to format books.
Import text - open doc, rtf, txt document or paste text
select all text,
set font to arial - jus type arial to the font name box if you are using Linux and do not have arial installed. It works on my Mint Linux instalation ;-)
set font size to 16
select menu Format, Paragraph
select First line intend 0.5cm
select space after paragraph 0.2cm
select justification to Left
Select menu Format, Page
set all page margins to 0.01cm (you can not use 0cm in rtf)
Save as rtf file.
That is it.
Please experiment until you find layout that you really like.
Then record a macro to format your texts.
I have included an example
I have formatted Fairy Tales, by the Grimm Brothers from Project Gutenberg to demonstrate setting of font type, size and margins.
Otherwise this is not properly formated, just quick (it took me less than 2 minutes) example.