Thread: Embedding fonts - strange issue
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Old 10-20-2013, 10:49 AM   #93
Rizla
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
The reason the size has jumped so much is that you did not read/take my advice to subset font. Subsetting removes any fonts not used like say bold italics and reduces the size of the fonts used to just the characters used. Subsetting might be able to be done when doing the conversion/embedding and if not, it can be done via Polish boos. Most eBooks I subset that have my Charis SIL embedded end up like 500-800k. Most are under 1MB.
Will that only reduce the ebook file size if the ebook doesn't use italics and / or bold?
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