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delphin · 08-03-2011, 02:41 AM

Four possible fixes possible for this . . .

1) Use a custom CSS inside the EPUB to embed a font that has the necessary characters.

2) Use Calibre to convert to LRF instead, and embed a font that has the necessary characters inside the LRF (Calibre can handle this for you, so this may be the simplest).

3) Convert your cookbook into a format that can be loaded into OpenOffice (LibreOffice) and save it as a PDF with the proper font embedded. (use the drop-down menu 'export as PDF' and select 'embed standard fonts').

4) Just un-zip and edit the EPUB file and replace the single characters that don't work with the appropriate multi-character equivalents "1/2", "1/4", "1/8" etc. To do this you can either download the free EPUB editor Sigil and use it to edit your epub directly, or alternately, simply change the .epub extension to .zip; then unzip the folder, find the HTML or XHTML file, and edit with a text editor; then zip everything back up and change the .zip extension back to .epub

08-03-2011, 02:41 AM	#3
delphin Evangelist Posts: 434 Karma: 346901 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: SONY PRS-650	Four possible fixes possible for this . . . 1) Use a custom CSS inside the EPUB to embed a font that has the necessary characters. 2) Use Calibre to convert to LRF instead, and embed a font that has the necessary characters inside the LRF (Calibre can handle this for you, so this may be the simplest). 3) Convert your cookbook into a format that can be loaded into OpenOffice (LibreOffice) and save it as a PDF with the proper font embedded. (use the drop-down menu 'export as PDF' and select 'embed standard fonts'). 4) Just un-zip and edit the EPUB file and replace the single characters that don't work with the appropriate multi-character equivalents "1/2", "1/4", "1/8" etc. To do this you can either download the free EPUB editor Sigil and use it to edit your epub directly, or alternately, simply change the .epub extension to .zip; then unzip the folder, find the HTML or XHTML file, and edit with a text editor; then zip everything back up and change the .zip extension back to .epub Last edited by delphin; 08-03-2011 at 03:04 AM.