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Old 02-24-2021, 10:56 PM   #5
davidfor
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Originally Posted by luisdent View Post
my experience has been horribly the opposite. while everything generally works great i haven't had a single epub work eith extra typography settings. i procure books from gutenberg, feedbooks, and many other well known sites and even some sitez that specifically focus on clean proper ebook formatting.

if i use the stock fonts everything is fine. if i use sideloaded fonts i haven't seen even one epub work properly. for instance, if i load alegreya font on an epub it is bold. always. convert to kepub and it works as expected. if i use bitter font and adjust line hight, the line height jumps 10 times the normal amount at each setting step. and the margins similarly act all wonky.
That suggests you are loading the fonts incorrectly. I don't tend to use sideloaded fonts as they don't look any better to me. But, I grabbed the Alegraya and Bitter fonts from the first links that google showed me. Testing with these, I do not see any issues with changing the fonts or line heights with several books. And no issues with text being the wrong weight.

Alternatively, those sites are not producing books as clean as you think. From my experience, PG books are terrible and I would be planning to edit them before putting one on my devices. I would need to see a book to what could be causing the problem.
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bookmarks have issues as well and sometimes dissapear and act funny. with kepub I've never had an issue.
There were issues in older firmware with how bookmarks for epubs were handled and this could lead to some loss of detail. But, I didn't lose any bookmarks.
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and in every case converting to kepub has been the best solution. and thus my problem.
If you are actually converting to kepub, then what you are actually doing is an epub-to-epub conversion followed by adding the kepub specific spans and things. There is a good chance that the epub-to-epub conversion is solving a lot of the problems.
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harry potter converts fine, but my kobo doesn't find it or even acknowledge it exists. and i can't seem to figure out why.
Have you checked what I asked?
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