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Old 10-24-2017, 02:26 AM   #39
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
Hell, what would you do, If you were them?
"Tough!"

Paper and PDF are for perfect and artistic layouts - I'm stretching the definition of artistic here to include fonts, including script fonts.

The objective of an e-reader is to get the text across to the reader with minimum fuss. One way of doing that is to design a font that is easy to read on the screen. This would of course include the ability to scale, etc. For this to actually work, the little e-reader needs heaps of programming to understand the font; so font and e-reader are linked.

Now everyone and their dog wants to use fonts that the e-reader knows very little about and which are in probability very badly defined, e.g. kerning is absent. Here be monsters.

I'd tell them that that is the way it is, because that is what works. You want perfect layout with heaps of funny fonts, you do a paper book and/or a PDF.
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