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Old 08-25-2019, 11:18 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by AliceWonder View Post
Obviously I'll have to check my magazine when the reader (or user's preference) is to not use the embedded fonts, but how well is WOFF2 supported in ePub readers? For web browsers at this point it is very well supported, but I could not find a listing of popular ePub readers and what font technology they actually support.
At this point? Kobo's ereaders theoretically support woff/woff2 fonts IF you send the epub as a kepub (the actual file extension is kepub.epub which triggers the use of the epub3 renderer). A stock epub uses the Adobe RMSDK renderer and woff/woff2 is not supported.

Personally, I'm not that big a fan of embedded fonts given that all too often, they seem to be used to emulate the old Mac ransom note document style.
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