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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
You can easily check if a font is being embedded by the file size of the LRF file (it will be much larger with an embedded font) You can see the file size by opening the edit metadata dialog.
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Hi Kovid, thanks for the pointer. When I look at file sizes when I embed fonts versus when I don't, I can see a difference. For example, I used a test file which turns into a 0.2MB lrf when converted without a font, and into a 2MB lrf when I try to embed a font into it.
What I did was take an excerpt of text and then convert it three times using different embedded fonts. The three resulting lrfs were all different sizes. When I read the files on my 505 I can see clearly that the italicized text and headings use the embedded fonts.
However, as far as I can tell, the main, or normal body text looks the same in all three versions.
For example, I used the three fonts Cambria, Georgia and Constantia (Windows fonts but easily obtainable) and compare the glyph for the character '5'.
In Cambria, the top and the bottom of the 5 lines up with the text.
However, using Georgia or Constantia, the 5 is almost like a descender that is below the main line of the text, like this:
The quick brown fo5x jumps over the lazy dog.
In my test files, the 5 always looks the same to me.
Similarly, for the percent sign glyph, in all three of the fonts named above, the two circles should be completely separate from the slash.
But when I look at the text in my Reader, I can see the top circle is connected to the slash. I think that is the percent sign from Dutch801 Rm BT (ie: the default font on the PRS-505)
Any idea what is going on?