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spinningdoc · 05-26-2012, 09:39 AM

I've had a search on the forum and couldn't find any similar problems, so please do point me in the right direction if this has already been dealt with.

Having painstakingly set up a vanilla epub in Sigil with a few bits of CSS and got it working, I wanted to embed a font, pretty much to see how it's done, and then see if my Sony would deal with it. So just playing around really.

I get that embedding a font means:

1. 'Importing' it into Sigil
2. Declaring it in the CSS
3. Invoking it in the html file.

(Not sure if those are the right words but you get what I mean I hope.)

However I'm falling over at the first of those. I right click on the 'font' folder in Sigil, and choose 'Add Existing File'. I navigate to the Fonts folder (I'm on XP), but when I select a font, either by double clicking, or clicking on open, nothing happens. The dialogue box remains, nothing's added in Sigil. It's a dead end. Dragging and dropping doesn't work either.

All thoughts/suggestions welcome!

05-26-2012, 09:39 AM	#1
spinningdoc Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2011 Device: Non	Fonts - can't 'add existing file' I've had a search on the forum and couldn't find any similar problems, so please do point me in the right direction if this has already been dealt with. Having painstakingly set up a vanilla epub in Sigil with a few bits of CSS and got it working, I wanted to embed a font, pretty much to see how it's done, and then see if my Sony would deal with it. So just playing around really. I get that embedding a font means: 1. 'Importing' it into Sigil 2. Declaring it in the CSS 3. Invoking it in the html file. (Not sure if those are the right words but you get what I mean I hope.) However I'm falling over at the first of those. I right click on the 'font' folder in Sigil, and choose 'Add Existing File'. I navigate to the Fonts folder (I'm on XP), but when I select a font, either by double clicking, or clicking on open, nothing happens. The dialogue box remains, nothing's added in Sigil. It's a dead end. Dragging and dropping doesn't work either. All thoughts/suggestions welcome!