Thread: FontShrinker - tool to subset a font
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Old 02-08-2018, 06:54 PM   #92
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
What's wrong with the ligatures?

Do you know which subsetter makes smaller sized font files?
Keep your skivvies on, dude!

There's nothing "wrong" with the ligatures. It's a problem at the Amazon LITB, for those of us making commercial books.

Without getting into a lot of our own hard-earned knowledge, the long and the short of it is, it's best not to upload any book with a specified body font (even one that is, of course, overridable), sans that fonts' full ligature set.

That means, you need a font subsetter that can automatically include the ligatures, even IF you are not directly calling them in the corresponding ePUB.

And no, I don't--the size isn't my primary concern, so that isn't something I look at a lot. To be honest.

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