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Old 10-10-2013, 04:11 PM   #50
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by EbokJunkie View Post
Unfortunately, font embedding appreciably bloats a book size. Say, one keeps two hundred books on PW averaging 2.0 MB each and embedded font is 0.5 MB. So, initial 400 MB will become 500. Add multiple dictionaries 50-60 MB each... strong argument to hold on PW1... until Amazon closes that loophole with FW update :-(
One way to solve the bloat problem is to also select to subset the fonts. That way, any font not used will not be embedded and the fonts used will be reduced to just the characters in the book.
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