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Old 04-19-2008, 11:22 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by hekkel View Post
If you collect all the available public information I think you can expect an update around mid may, when the IDPF conference is held. It is Adobe who is writing a Digital Editions applications for portable devices and it was Adobe who wrote the PDF viewer for the Sony. Given all the publishers moving towards ePub I guess things will come together at that conference.

So you will probably have to wait until the 14th of may.
It would be really wonderful if Adobe's ace engineering team would fix their support for ligatures to actually work. Adobe's own typography guru is on record as saying that the way Apple handles ligatures in OS X is actually the way it's supposed to work* -- but Adobe Acrobat and Adobe's other .pdf tools produce incorrect spacing with that output.

And let's not forget that the Sony reader displays the wrong glyphs when presented with ligatures in a pdf file. That's Adobe's code too! At least Acrobat shows the glyphs, albeit with broken character spacing.

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*Yes, you heard me right. Apple has been following Adobe's spec correctly for seven years now, and Adobe hasn't gotten around to fixing their code to conform to their own specification. Sigh.
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