Thread: Typos in ebooks
View Single Post
Old 05-20-2011, 04:01 AM   #195
Jellby
frumious Bandersnatch
Jellby ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Jellby ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Jellby ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Jellby ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Jellby ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Jellby ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Jellby ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Jellby ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Jellby ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Jellby ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Jellby ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Jellby's Avatar
 
Posts: 7,557
Karma: 19500001
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Spaniard in Sweden
Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura
Quote:
Originally Posted by raac View Post
Fourthly, there seems to be some problem with the font embedding because on my Sony PRS-950 some character are rendered as question marks.
Is there really an embedded font? It could be that there's nothing wrong in the book, just that the default font in the PRS-950 (and others) does not have those particular characters. Should a book contain workarounds for the case some reader does not provide a reasonably complete font (or the possibility of selecting a customized font)? I don't think so.

Quote:
Originally Posted by wodin View Post
After all, they already have electronic versions of the books that feed the typesetting software.
I'm afraid that's where the reasoning fails. It seems most publishers don't have electronic versions of the books they publish, at most they have the print-ready PDF versions they send to the printer, as others have said.
Jellby is offline   Reply With Quote