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Old 09-19-2019, 04:44 AM   #155
AliceWonder
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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle View Post
But then you better put a sticker on your magazine or book: "Don't bother buying if you're still using your ancient 2018 reader. I'm on the bleeding edge and not going to pay your technical debt." I'm sure that'll go down well.
Nah - I'm testing it with Marvin on an 3rd gen iPad - using whatever default fonts Marvin already has (it doesn't respect publisher fonts, maybe there is a way to tell it to but the fact that it doesn't by default makes it the perfect test platform).

I won't exclude tech just because it doesn't work with that old reader, but I've found that generally failings of newer methods on older devices are non fatal. And that's by design of the ePub (or whatever) standard.

I know Apple likes to make changes that are fatal to force people to junk perfectly good devices and buy new, but open standards try not to.

Will my magazine look as good as it could if I designed it for old readers like Marvin?

No, it won't, but I would be very surprised if the Marvin market share wasn't shrinking... so why would I want to target it?
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