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Originally Posted by DNSB
While you may regard WebKit as the scapegoat, calibre no longer uses WebKit so it's a non-issue. How iOS/iPadOS and Kindles (not to mention Android and the other devices out there) function is not something that is relevant to how calibre functions.
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It may not be, but nobody needs or likes a tool that creates "defective" products - be it its own defect or elsewhere in a "subcontractor".
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Originally Posted by DNSB
As for the newer hardware needed for some programs? Again not really relevant to this discussion.
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So unless you can post a screenshot from calibre 5.x showing the issue, this is not the place for that discussion.
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I thought Calibre means, well, Calibre, not only Calibre 5.x. Like when people talk today of windows, they refer globally to the 7, 8 and 10 including flavours.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
As for issues with the internals of a font, that is, again, outside the control of Kovid and the other people involved with calibre.
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Indeed, this is true.
However, wouldn't be nice that a free tool could do things a paysoftware can't? Like patching the font, the very same way it did subsetting or embedding or any other nice features...
There is a lot of installed base of readers, and I see they do not sell that mush as before, for being superseded by tablets. People would not jump that easily in a new boat, just because.
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Originally Posted by mirage
If the italic style for a given font was listed before the normal one, I could get the inappropriate display of italicized text when it should have been normal.
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I think I noticed this long time ago, so long time ago that I don't even remember when. Since then, I put always the fonts in this order: R, B, I, BI.
But anyway, the fonts are not italic, but italicised (slanted) - italics use different graphs for
a and
g, slanted don't.
Luckily, there are not many fonts that suffer - in the past 10 years or so I found only one,
Gabriola, however, recently, I found a lot of them, mostly from Google and Microsoft new fonts, free to use in web or elsewhere.
To finish, the conversion to PDF, even from calibre versions that are affected, renders a perfect display, as it should.