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eyestrain · 12-19-2006, 10:46 AM

Thanks for the welcome NatCh.

I think it is their responsibility though, if they are packaging the content in a format specifically for a device they manufacture, and then profiting from the sale of that content. It's passing the buck to say its the publishers responsibility, surely sony convert the source data into the sony reader format in much the same way we have to, isn't that the stage you have to make sure that the fonts are in line with the rest of your generated files? Or is it that the process is completely automated, with no possibility of intervention?

You are never going to get different suppliers to adhere to one format, in practice it just doesn't work that way.

12-19-2006, 10:46 AM	#18
eyestrain Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2006 Device: Kindle Keyboard, Kindle Voyage	Thanks for the welcome NatCh. I think it is their responsibility though, if they are packaging the content in a format specifically for a device they manufacture, and then profiting from the sale of that content. It's passing the buck to say its the publishers responsibility, surely sony convert the source data into the sony reader format in much the same way we have to, isn't that the stage you have to make sure that the fonts are in line with the rest of your generated files? Or is it that the process is completely automated, with no possibility of intervention? You are never going to get different suppliers to adhere to one format, in practice it just doesn't work that way.