[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Leonatus

Thank you for testing!
Indeed, the font I use ist missing italics (there is only the standard version for free).
And no, I didn't choose the "Publisher default" font. I recently had added to the device Amazon's "bookerly" font and use it as standard, but with other fonts I had used before, such as "Georgia", the result was as you described. This evening, I'll check it out, perhaps once more with a german book to check the hyphenation behaviour again.

OK, then I suspect it is working as designed. Selecting a specific font on the device overrides all fonts specified in the book.

Strange only that my font also vanishes when I add the book to the "My Digital Editions" folder and read it on the Kobo desktop.

Sorry, but there is a contradiction there. The "My Digital Editions" folder is for ADE. The Kobo desktop doesn't look there. It has it's own directory with books in it. But, as far as I can tell, the Kobo Desktop doesn't let you add books. It seems to only show books downloaded from the Kobo server.

Of your screenshots, the font appears in the first and third one, in the headings. Does it also appear in the <p> classes, that I had assigned the font to?

The only styles that specifies the font are "h2", ".center" and ".tbcenter". There are no h2's on that page. The "By the author of" uses a p with ".center" and "BOSTON" is a pa with ".tbcenter". These styles are working on other pages.

Edit: I just see that in the second image, the font appears as well, but only in the subheadings, not at the author's name.

The author name is bold tags with an class specifying italics. My guess is that the Adobe RMSDK renderer is using bold italics in a different font because these are not available in the specified font. That's what the second image, Touch-epub-Letters-TitlePage.png, shows. The renderer used for kepubs seems to have decided in favour of the font over italics for the same text.

The other difference between the renderers is what jackie_w mentioned. For kepubs, all fonts in the book are overridden when you select a specific font on the device. For epubs, only some of the fonts are overriden. And as jackie_w mentioned, there is a patch to change this behaviour.