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Originally Posted by cerement
Been watching the news about Kindle lately and got around to digging my old Palm TX out of storage and booting it up, cleaning off the old software, updating things, etc. Until I get around to upgrading to one of the eInk devices, I'm flipping back and forth between readers on the Palm, mainly Mobipocket and Plucker.
Mobipocket gets me familiar with the reader used on the Kindle and the Cybook. Plucker has the advantage of being open-source and having built-in conversions available on Project Gutenberg. And FontSmoother makes for more comfortable reading with both.
1) Even with FontSmoother installed, Mobipocket doesn't appear to use the real italics version of the font provided (instead does the force slant to fake italics). Plucker uses the real italics so I know it is available. Is there anyway to get Mobipocket to use the real italics rather than faking it?
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That's a limitation of the Palm, not of the MobiPocket format. The Windows MobiPocket reader, the Pocket PC version, and the CyBook Gen3 version of it, for example, all support font families and will use genuine bold and italic fonts if available.