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Old 08-24-2024, 07:00 PM   #2079
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Originally Posted by rkomar View Post
It is generally a bad idea to replace the fonts in a PDF. When the PDF is constructed, the characters are precisely positioned (i.e. kerned) according to their shapes in the original font. If you change the font, then you get weird spacings between the characters in words (some have bigger gaps, others overlap). It just looks bad.

EPUBs are rendered completely differently from PDFs. There is no kerning information in EPUBs, so swapping fonts doesn't lead to weird character spacing.
Agree 100%. I was going to write the same thing but you beat me to it. Thank you, rkomar.
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