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Old 08-17-2008, 12:29 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by Hadrien View Post
For ePub, the problem is on the reading system side, rather than the format: you need a way to switch the default font to something else (embedding a 10Mb font in every file isn't exactly ideal).
A font can be specified in an ePub ebook without embedding it. I'm not sure what the best way to do this is (e.g. to allow the best fall back). In any case, this does not help if the font isn't available on the target device. So this may help for Adobe DE on a PC, but not on the PRS-505.

The MobiPocket version currently works best on a PC, because the MobiPocket Windows Reader uses a very complicated (and sometimes broken) font matching scheme to ensure that all requested characters can be displayed. This may again not transfer to handheld devices with limited font support (even MobiPocket's scheme can only work from available fonts).
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