RE: FONTS AND EMBEDDING
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Originally Posted by frankieGom
Thanks for the clarification. Then, if the fonts are provided with the file, it makes sense that the reader should use them.
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Here goes.
In my experience,
if you make an epub with your fave' fonts included in the epub (e.g. the .TTF file) and reference those fonts with respect to their position in the epub (not on the device in the device's fonts folder), then kobo will still not use those fonts.
Somebody else said they got it working. I don't even believe them at this point. Maybe there is a way.
But the complaint around here is that embedded fonts don't work and there has been very little correction or instruction to resolve the problem, none of which has been confirmed to solve the problem anyway. So I don't think you can embed fonts as of yet.
To give an example. If you have a text book that uses different fonts for different sections of text (main text and perhaps a "details" or "example" section using different fonts) or some scifi/fantasy/post modern hipster novel that uses different fonts for different characters or for different content (a poem having several different fonts interrupting prose that has a single consistent font) the kobo (and I believe major other reader brands too) will simply NOT DISPLAY that styling. Everything will be a single font, the font the user chose for the whole text from the fonts stored on the flash memory of the reader.
And this is when all those special .TTF files have been included in the epub zipfile, increasing the size of your "ebook" to several times what it would be just being straight text.
Whereas, on an ebookreader like caliber or ADE or epubreader or some other, running on your PC, different fonts can be displayed within the same epub.
Idk to what extent this applies to pdf.