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Yes, Fictionwise does use calibre. However both Fictionwise and BookDesigner use the same installed base Sony fonts -- "Dutch" (Times) and "Swiss" (Ariel.) I have noticed no difference between the two in the look of the on-screen fonts. Both seem to use the default font spacing and ignore any special kerning data that my be embedded in the font file. Kerning would only be present in the final page display (not the file creation) and that is controlled by the Sony OS when it reads the LRF file. Since both programs create LRS files that are then converted/compiled into LRF files they do not contain kerning data themselves. Even when they contain a special font not normally found on the Sony Reader the reading of that file is still controlled by the Sony OS rendering engine. Also, given the power of the Sony CPU I doubt that it processes kerning data and spaces a line with just the standard glyph offset information.
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