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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Anybody noticed any embedded fonts in those downloaded epubs? I suspect they get deleted, but I have too few downloadable ebooks at the moment to be certain.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Does anyone know if the eBook has graphics in witht he main text and are hi-res, does the ePub keep the graphics at the correct resolution and in color if the graphics are originally in color?
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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Does anyone know whether any page number info in the book as supplied by the publisher is preserved in or stripped from these amazon corrupted epubs?
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To gather some more information I took a look at one of my previously purchased books,
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition. That book contains page numbers, fonts, and high quality images.
The book contains several large images. The first in the DRM-free EPUB is 1626x2442 pixels and 2.9 MB in size. I looked at the same image as delivered to Kindle apps in KFX and AZW3/AZW6 formats and none were as good. The closest was AZW6 which was 1626x2442 pixels and 2.0 MB. Next was KFX delivered to an app at 1278x1920 pixels and 1.7 MB. Worst was plain AZW3 at 917x1377 pixels and 120 KB. I suspect that the EPUB contains the original image as provided by the publisher.
The KFX version of the book contains two fonts, Charis SIL and Charis SIL Bold. Neither of those files appear in the DRM-free EPUB or in the AZW3 file. (The AZW3 does have @font-face CSS entries for those fonts pointing to a non-existent filename of XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.) So it does appear that fonts are left out in the generation of EPUBs by Amazon.
Both the KFX and AZW3 versions of the book contain page numbers. The EPUB does not.