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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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?
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EMS, old man. EMS for the sizing of inline graphics. ;-)
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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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Honestly, as up until very recently, only the eInks (the KF8 eInks) had the whole "publisher font" thing, I didn't worry about it. When a client felt strongly about the font(s), we'd put a wee statement in, saying "Yadda-yadda Publisher Font yadda."
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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.
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Sorry? What device were you using, dear boy?
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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.
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As I said.
It's one thing to emulate the look and feel of a pBook--using similar fonts or whatever. BUT, part of our responsibility, as formatters, is, in my opinion,
to do more than that. To ensure that the reader gets the content in a way that doesn't handicap him--like text-as-image that's unreadable.
I think I have an advantage over a lot of formatters simply because I'm, ahem,
well-seasoned, being {mumble}years old. To diverge just a bit--a few years back--about 4-5 now--I bought David Simon's "The Corner" in ppbk. OMG.
I wanted to scream. The thing was in 8 or 9 point, and I could not find
any point, with my progressive lenses,
that was comfortable to read. Even the smallest difference in distance from my eyes--from the top of the page to the bottom, for example, meant I was constantly, constantly, moving the book in-out-back-in-out-back so I could "comfortably" read it. Or worse, behaving like a bobble head, constantly moving my noggin around to find the best part of the progressive lenses for that bit of page. It was a horror show. I gave in about 50 pages in (of the 800+, mind you), and bought the damn Kindle book, so I wouldn't suffer any longer.
My point in bringing that up is, I
assume that readers will increase (or decrease) font sizes; I
assume that they don't have perfect eyes. If I can read it
COMFORTABLY on all our devices, at the shop, then, it's approved. If not, it's not, period. We redo the graphic. Sometimes--and yes, this makes my guys nuts--I'll make my guys redo manually a graphic that a client's given us, to the point of manually creating an entire table in HTML, and THEN taking the capture of it. It has to be as perfect as possible.
When I think back on the books in '09-'10, and the old 600x800 standard, I shudder. When we get books back to tweak, you can bet your bippy we bygod fix those old graphics, too. (
OR, other people's books; we get a lot of the older books from those who have fallen by the wayside.)
Hitch