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Originally Posted by crankypants
Only JPG and PNG. This is limited by the EPUB spec itself, not by technology or copyrights. GIF copyright is owned by Compuserve I think. If you use GIF, you gotta pay them.
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Not true. GIF is supported, as well as SVG for a large part. In the specs it is specified what part of SVG is not supported. In general the animation part.
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Originally Posted by crankypants
I don't know. But be careful, not every ereader will support fonts in the EPUB. Most ereaders only support the really basic stuff like bold, italic, and underline, so stick with that.
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Both ttf and otf are supported. However, be sure to check the font on a reader (or ADE 1.7/2.0) first. Some do not work.
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Originally Posted by ProDigit
To address some things you mentioned, and for others reading this thread:
I gathered that unless you use special characters in the alphabet, like the Germans, French, Spanish,
Languages like Dutch and English, and perhaps a few more, are best off with iso-8859-1.
It's smaller, and more appropriate.
99% of this forum's English posts benefit from iso-8859-1, and don't need UTF-8.
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You will be better of in using UTF-8. Remember, it is not only specifying it in the XHTML, but also the file must be saved in that format. Officially for ePUB either UTF-8 or UTF-16 is required. If you save a file in UTF-8 or in iso-8859-1, the size will not be a lot different. That will change if you add eastern languages.
Even if the characters you use are in the iso-8859-1 codepage, it may still render incorrectly on a reader. Just use UTF-8 and store the file in UTF-8 and you will be fine.
If you want, I have created a program where you need to specify your container.xml file and it will create the ePUB for you. You can choose to let it only add files specified in the opf or all files in the directories. There is no validation or checking, just simple creation.