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Originally Posted by Hitch
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Makes sense indeed...
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Katsunami:
Replacing a font is certainly not hard by any stretch, as you know. Just pull one out, and put the other in, do a fast regex on the CSS page. Subsetting it is a valuable tool, but making a plug-in or feature just to "swap" fonts seems like overkill to me, not to mention a feature ripe for abuse by well-meaning, but under-knowledged amateurs (vis-a-vis embedding and licenses). If you want something that will do that, try Atlantis; it embeds fonts directly from your hard-drive, which gives me the licensing willies.
Hitch
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Calibre can already embed fonts during conversion.
Calibre can also strip fonts during conversion.
If you use them both at the same time, Calibre seems to first embed the font you selected (along with any other in the book), then strip all of them out. If that functionality would be reversed, Calibre would automatically gain the option to swap fonts on conversion.
If someone wants to embed a font into an ebook for which they don't have a license, then they're fully able to do so now, using Calibre or other tools.
Even so: I have Minion Pro on my computer because I have an Adobe product installed. Probably, the license prohibits me from embedding it into e-books. If I still do just that, and just read the books myself, nobody is ever going to know, so that point is moot as well as far as I'm concerned. (Apart from the fact that Minion Pro looks dreadful on e-ink; almost any font does, except if it's specifically tweaked.)