[MustardOrMayo]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

This is a screencap using NotoSans with a bit of Turkish, including some special (I think) Turkish chars. This book's language is set as English.

I'm curious, since the UI looks a little weird to me, do you have any information on what UI modifications you use, like for the UI font and running header? (Otherwise, I could try to find those myself)

Originally Posted by davidfor

@MustardOrMayo: I think you have misunderstood what the "Publisher Default" does.

Oh my.

Originally Posted by davidfor

This option says "Use whatever font the publisher of the book has specified in the book". This means that if the publisher has embedded a font in the book, that font will be used wherever the styles specify to use that font. It also means that if the styles specify a font that is available to the device, it will be used. It is really saying to use the style that the publisher specified as much as possible. And when the publisher doesn't specify a font, then whatever the system has as the default font will be used. Most of my books don't have specified fonts. Some have an embedded font but only use it for a few things, such as headings, or text they want to set apart. A few use an embedded font for the body text. Others specify a list of fonts for the body and if the device has one, it will use it.

Oh my. I think I just got a headache from reading that.

Then again, I'm going to have to save that reply of yours and my reply before that for my research. I thought current e-book technologies weren't advanced enough for my liking, but then it now seems that EPUB is a weird format. I thought it was just that EPUB (and Kindle "Enhanced Typesetting" (KFX)) that wouldn't play nice with certain illustrated novels and other books that have heavy formatting in their respective print editions!

Originally Posted by davidfor

When you choose a specific font, it overrides the fonts specified in the book. Any embedded font will be ignored. Any use of other fonts will be ignored.

Both of these happened for formats that support them. The above is happens for both epubs and kepubs, but, they do have some differences.

Ouch. I think I'm getting even more of a headache.

Originally Posted by davidfor

Comic have the text as part of the image.

Yep, and a lot of e-book platforms don't support annotations over print-replica formats, which would lead me to just have a separate device (unless I had a newer Boox) so I can take "annotations" as a note in Evernote.

Originally Posted by davidfor

Swapping between "Publisher Default" and Georgia will not show any differences for these types of formats.

Yep, I know. Most of the comics I read are already in print-replica formats, like PDF, and there just aren't font menus in those cases, but some of the comics that I read are in reflowable text formats for certain reasons.

On a side note, this reminds me: For some weird reason, the Kobo Store in my region has 2 entries for "Ozy and Millie". One is in regular KEPUB (reflowable text), and the other is in what I see as that weird KEPUB print-replica format. I can provide links to the store pages on request.

PDF is a law unto itself, and I have never bothered to work out what it does.[/QUOTE]

I have lots of comic PDFs, including some that were distributed for free by the authors or publishers and/or I think can be distributed for free, and they're usually samples or previews, so I could send you some if you're interested, but before that, a partial listing of my Calibre library if you want to see what I have.

Besides that, I know Google Play Books uses PDF, but overlays their (presumably AI generated) "Bubble Zoom" technology over it (I think it's basically Google's idea of "Guided View" without infringing on Amazon patents), which I disable as I read on tablets, same goes for Guided View on Kindle and comiXology.

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