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Old 02-15-2015, 05:59 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by bobcdy View Post
Thanks all for the helpful suggestions. I think the font obfuscation sounds best to me - I have a post, about 2011-12, in the Font Creator forum about my problem with reducing a font (with Font Creator) to eliminate the extra glyphs and make the font smaller - ran into an odd problem in that the reduced font didn't work well at all. On some epub readers, there were odd omissions of a few glyphs so that a phrase would would have one or more blank spaces where specific glyphs didn't show even though they were certainly there when viewed with sigil. The forum moderator concluded the font reduction had caused this effect.
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Things have changed QUITE a lot in the last 3-4 years. I strongly recommend that you simply subset the font, using either Toxaris' program or the Calibre font subset in...POLISH ePUB, IIRC. The obfuscation method is likely what CAUSED your problem. Font Creator is not the same as these other methodologies, which are simple subtraction.

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