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Old 07-02-2011, 07:49 PM   #280
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Put an ePub on your Sony that uses Charis. One of the Star Wars ePub samples from B&N would do fine and the sample does not have DRM. Find one of the new Star Wars ePub samples and load it on the nook.

This way you can compare the same exact embedded font and you should find that the Sony renders so much nicer then the nook. The nook just doesn't get the strokes right so you have uneven strokes and some of the strokes are too think and it's very noticeable. It looked like a different font to me. I happen to have had a book that used Charis and used a Star Wars sample that uses Charis. So my comparison showed the flaw of the nook's font rendering engine.

I took a look at Charis using ADE for Windows and I did not see that the Sony was doing anything to force it to look better. I did not see any lines that were thin.
I would suggest that anyone interested in this problem to look at the nook installed fonts. If you change any formatting option (like font size) on the nook, you will be using one of the built in fonts (I think). I would guess the average user is going to be using one of the Nook installed fonts?
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