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Originally Posted by Hitch
Forgive my moment of hubris, all, but: this is where you tell the wheat from the chaff. Or, to lapse into phrases from long ago and far away, the men from the boys. Where the cow eats the cabbage.
ANY competent (caveat word!) formatter can do wonders even with KF7, IF they know what they're doing. We use a variety of wee tricks, to ensure that the KF7 is nice, if not as awesome as the KF8. I personally put the books on my OWN K2, to test them, to ensure that they still look good.
If a book "needs" embedded fonts--like, say, for example, Kanji--then we bygod make them into images, and we embed them--inline. Yup. If the need is significantly greater--for example, I just had a book that had 8 different characters, all of whom needed (yes, you got it) their OWN font for their journal entries, I sit down and I discuss the KF7 challenges with the client, and how we can ensure that the reading public "gets" whatever it is that they are trying to convey, via the use of the myriad fonts. We'll make adjustmnents or suggest changes to the book itself (e.g., "Wolfie's Journal, Stardate X...") that can be hidden for KF8, and displayed in KF7.
THAT is real "eBook" formatting. The challenge is, after all, conveying the content, the tone, and the meaning of the DT Book to the Digital sphere, and you can't just run something through Calibre and call it finished. /done being hubristic and braggy, now.
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When you embed graphics for Mobi that doesn't support embedded fonts, how do you handle the fact that someone may be reading at a large font size?
How do you handle letting the reader know that these are embedded fonts in the eBook? Unless it's a KFX eBook, spans don't work when using anything Publisher Font (as we recently found out). Also, do you add in font-family: serif?
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THAT is simply stupidity. We embed our graphics at high-rez, and LARGE, so that they are VERY zoomable for reading. We learned that lesson a long time ago. What happened when you zoomed them, Wolfie? They were STILL too small?
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The only way to allow zooming would be to read the eBook as a kepub and I read ePub. What I was tempted to do but didn't was enlarge the graphics Via the Calibre editor. I still may doing to see how it comes out.
Many eBooks have crappy low-res graphics that have words that you're supposed to read but can't because the publisher is an ass and has no idea how to make an eBook work with current devices.