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Originally Posted by AliceWonder
And while it is true I probably could ditch Liberation Sans and Liberation Serif as neither are used for very much - Liberation Mono is a must because apparently some devices do not even have a monospace font. I suppose monospace isn't used for much in most books, but I do use it.
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Because they work so badly in an environment not designed for monospace.
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I specifically want to keep Liberation Sans and Serif though because the metrics match Helvetica and Times and they look better than what some systems substitute for Helvetica and Times when those two aren't available (why so many systems use Arial for Helvetica is really puzzling)
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Because it's free and Helvetica is not.
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Why reinvent the wheel? Calibre's Editor can already subset it for you, as can many other tools on MobileRead.
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Or Toxaris' fantastic font subsetting tool, which you can find on his website, which you can find in his signature.
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Originally Posted by AliceWonder
I use a shell script to pack the final .ePub - not GUI tools. I don't like GUI tools. They change from one version to another, they break when a library they are built against changes, etc. They tend to lock you in to their product.
I have very bad experiences with GUI tools. They are useful, but not for critical parts of the workflow.
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Calibre is open source. Sigil is open source. All are maintained, pretty much full-time, by volunteers and their developers. Toxaris' font-subsetting tool is not open source, but it's free, as are all the Sigil and Calibre programs and plugins.
GUI does not equal proprietary. Just like the earlier discussion about the Dyslexian fonts, Calibre and Sigil and all their plugins, etc. are completely, 100% FREE and nobody is locking you in or getting rich off you. Calibre is supported by donations--and Sigil is not; its current developers do it for the love of the project and the software
and won't even ACCEPT donations.
Hitch