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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
So *GET* ADE! It's a free download, and is your main tool for checking how an epub will display in real life.
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Didn't know it was free, but I don't have room to spare on my C:/ drive for yet another ever increasing iteration of the required NET framework.
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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
It sounds as if there is a problem with the font definitions in your stylesheet. Only the italic variant is being used. If you like to make your epub file available somewhere we'll have a look at it.
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My initial observation was wrong - all the different font styles are being used where specified, it was just hard to see the difference at first glance, with all the text slanted.
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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
As you have discovered, support for fonts on reading devices is patchy, to say the least! Are you sure you REALLY need anything beyond the standard ones? Readers are great for reading. They suck at imitating the layout of a printed page.
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I wanted to see how close I could come to the original lay-out with epub.
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Originally Posted by theducks
I agree, Something is messed up in the stylesheet.
Yo said you REMOVED the embedded fonts. How?
Deleting the Font files in the Font section is the LAST step.
First step is to adjust the font-family: x,y,z List in the selectors.
Second Place is to remove the corresponding (to the font being removed) @font definition
Last is remove the Font file itself
Leaving the first 2 intact will invoce 'fallback' rules
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I was removing them exactly backwards then, but I don't think that would account for the text going slanty in "Book view" when I saved a copy of the stylesheet of the epub that was hand-edited outside of Sigil.
Tried doing it in the correct order and the text is displayed slanted after the first step of removing the selector and declarations for the unused fonts in the stylesheet.
If I remove the selectors with Tools>Delete Unused Stylesheet Classes..., the text doesn't go slanted till after I delete the @font declarations which are left.
I suspect it's a bug with Sigil and not the stylesheet, but here's the original stylesheet and what's left after using the "Delete Unused Stylesheet Classes" tool. The fonts to be removed are TwCenMT-Condensed and DefaultFont as Arnhem was uninstalled from my system before saving as epub with FR to try to prevent it from being embedded.