Thread: A silly question: what is the advantage of ePub for a reader?
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Old 08-13-2009, 09:06 AM   #76
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Originally Posted by Syniurge View Post
ePub has everything that the previous de-facto standard Mobipocket lacks: vector graphics (scalable without loss), font embedding (e.g Kindle are atm restricted to Western languages, and even with the various font hacks, problem is that there can be only one font at the same time, and no single font is able to handle all languages; font embedding would make everything simpler and not restrict to a particular range of charsets), much more formatting features, and is a mix of existing and widely used open standards.
How is ePub for Chinese, Arabic, and Indian languages? The problematic scripts between the three surely are relevant to at least 2 billion people... perhaps closer to 3.

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