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Old 09-05-2011, 06:51 PM   #33
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Does anyone know why epub reading software running on a PC has more capability than what runs on an ereader?

I seem to recall that ADE on a desktop can display almost anything (arabic, vertical chinese characters), stuff that it can never display properly or at all on a reader device.

How much can ADE (and for that matter, other epub readers), running on a desktop/full computer system, call on the OS's drivers and rendering engines to do things that it itself can not do?

I mean, does it have a fallback, say, on windows, to use windows' rendering engine to display, say, arabic?
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