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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
There was lots of discussion here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=222825
which dealt with different ways to include the "apple symbol" in an EPUB.
GASP!!! GIF or PNG here... DO NOT use the dreaded JPG for artificial (non-photographic) images.
First: Font Embedding
Second: SVG
Third: PNG as a last resort |
Thanks Tex2002ans, I had a look at the thread, and the consensus seems to be that it should work by embedding a font. My concern is that I'm not confident that ereaders will display the font. Many, including ipad, even ignore serif/sans-serif settings.
A possible problem with my font is that the icons are mapped to the positions of other characters. For the printed edition, I took the font in which the body of the book is set, and inserted the icons in the positions of characters not used in the book (š ª « ¢ „ ¯ ² ³ µ » ¿ Ÿ ¹ ‹ ¸ Ð ¤ Ã º ‰ Þ ƒ Š Å Ý ý ß ð ). (Not sure that this was the clever thing to do.) For the epub version, I removed all the characters except the icons, because the rest of it is the font foundry's copyright. Perhaps I should map these characters to new or open positions in the font?
Re: jpeg. I agree. But I'm not at all keen on using inline graphics anyway: I imagine there might be major size issues on various ereaders?