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Originally Posted by roger64
I agree with you that the Kobo naming convention is not overly onerous when you add, once in a lifetime, a side-loaded font to your Kobo. Alas, it's not the only restriction. It also apply for embedded fonts.
Forgive me for this. I will give you an 'onerous' example. You'll understand then better why I am a little sensitive about this question...
After publishing on MR two months ago a batch of 45 EPUB (it was a v2 of my 2012 work) I realized later that if I wished them to be displayed as intended on Kobo ebook readers, I had better rename and/or tweak all of my embedded fonts... 
As it's usual for embedded fonts, it was of course not complete fonts but small subsets of the main ones. In each book I embedded the same four fonts: a special font for dropcaps (Linux Libertine Display), another one for smallcaps, a Regular and Italic one.
While the ADE rendering engine copes well with all these fonts and manages to display them precisely, Kobo's chokes on them. The only way I found to display my books as intended on Kobo is using PDF (I also publish each book on 6 and 9,7 inches PDF).
Here is the link to these books (in French).
I still struggle with this and would appreciate any help. |
Even more fun when I renamed the font files and changed the @font-face to match. See the link for what happened (hope it works, if not, it's in the serious issues with kepubs thread. This was with ADE on a PC.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...9&postcount=60
I've attached the slightly modified version to this message.
I'm going to do a bit more fiddling with the styles to see if I can get it to be readable on a Kobo -- the way the chapter titles look like they're dripping is not quite the effect I think either of us would want.
Regards,
David