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kovidgoyal · 01-03-2013, 04:32 AM

Actually, it turns out that it cannot be fixed as yet, on windows. It will not happen if you convert on linux or OS X, but Qt on windows has no support for Postscript fonts (it uses GDI instead of DirectWrite). The only way to fix it would be to drop support for Windows versions earlier than Vista SP2, which is not something that is worth the tradeoff at this time.

So you will have to either replace the otf fonts with truetype version of run the conversion ona linux or os x system.

01-03-2013, 04:32 AM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,413 Karma: 27757236 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Actually, it turns out that it cannot be fixed as yet, on windows. It will not happen if you convert on linux or OS X, but Qt on windows has no support for Postscript fonts (it uses GDI instead of DirectWrite). The only way to fix it would be to drop support for Windows versions earlier than Vista SP2, which is not something that is worth the tradeoff at this time. So you will have to either replace the otf fonts with truetype version of run the conversion ona linux or os x system.