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Old 06-21-2008, 06:52 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Unless, however, one requires something such as a character set that's not present on the Reader (such as my example of Greek), I really see no point in embedding fonts, unless one has some very specific object in mind in doing so. For "normal" fiction, the in-built fonts seem to be perfect "acceptable".

If one only requires a few words of some font or character set - perhaps an isolated Greek quote in an English text - I've found it a lot more satisfactory to use a graphic for the purpose.
One reason to embed fonts is to have different fonts for say the chapter titles.
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