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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
We have the same goals:
- Making the book as good as possible.
- Making it available to as many people as possible.
- Making beautiful/high-quality books.
- Although not sacrificing looks for long-term maintainability.
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Maybe I should come work for you -- at least, once I know what the hell I'm doing a little better.
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Graphics of so many ligatures would be a poor choice (does not scale well, and does not follow user preferences).
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I'm not sure what you mean? I just meant to do up each page of that "olde" part of my work as in image -- which, in fact, I've already done, and also in PDF format, too...
http://www.imaginary-friend.ca/epistyll.html
If you scroll down the page, you'll see it as images, and if you scroll further down from that, you can get it as PDF (and at higher resolution).
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With PDF... you cannot sell PDFs at any of the major retailers. You will most likely only be able to sell that PDF directly on your own site. Think iBooks is limited? I believe the market for PDFs such as this (ESPECIALLY a site with little foot-traffic) is miniscule.
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I asked this elsewhere, somewhere here in these forums, but nobody responded: is there anything wrong with including a PDF
within one's epub file? Like, this is just a thought/idea, but in order to make my work more accessible to other platforms, I was thinking that a way that I
might do it would be to have a graphic image of the page, and then also provide a link to the PDF version ("built-in" and included within the epub).
Is that "against the rules", to include a PDF within an epub file?
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Perhaps email this "JSL Ancient" designer, perhaps if you show him how passionate you are about his great font, he will tweak the font to allow for proper ligature support, instead of the current method of overwriting certain characters.
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Yeah, as I already said in another reply this morning, I've written to the guy a couple/few times already, and he just doesn't reply -- go figure. :/
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I mean, there has to be another font designer out there who is out there who is as passionate about unclean "olde" fonts as Psymon. The work is to just find this guy's fonts.
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As I've said before, I've looked for YEARS (if not decades), and I don't know of any others! Not free and embeddable, anyway, but even "paid" and not-embeddable there's probably only a couple. :/
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I convert books as a hobby, and if I may speak for them, so does Jellby + JSWolf, + Hitch (??? I don't know what she does for fun  ) + almost everyone who posts their ebooks on MobileRead.
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Very cool.
And hey, if I did step on anyone's toes or offend anyone with my "money, money, money" comment, I do apologize. I used to do freelance web design, and I got pretty sick of that kind of single-minded perspective of my clients, and perhaps that sorry experience left me a little presumptuous and jaded. D'oh... :/