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Old 03-19-2024, 02:59 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
I find a Kindle looks worse then RMSDK. On a Kindle by default, you have wide L/R margins and a wide line height. With KF8 you have no kerning, no ligatures, and no hyphenation. With KFX, you have kerning, ligatures, and hyphenation. But you also have wide L/R margins and a wide line height. There is an override for the large line height in KF8 using font metrics. But KFX does not respect that and overrides it with a large line height. With KF8 you can override the large L/R margins with negative margins and you can use the calibre's Polish or the Hyphenate This! plugin to add soft-hyphens which do work well. But you still cannot enable kerning and ligatures. Also, on a Kindle, fonts look better if they have hinting.

On a Kobo, hinting is not needed. Fonts look the same hinted or not.
Ah, the esoteric master. Normal users don't fiddle around with their ebooks. They buy them from Amazon book store, which give them great features on an ebook, or they upload their ePub to Send to Kindle. Others will also convert to KFX and transfer the file on their Kindle trough USB-C. That's about it.
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