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Old 12-11-2009, 08:43 PM   #3
Valloric
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Originally Posted by brewt View Post
And just because I think it's funny, I've built a version with Indesign and full font embedding. THEN it works in ADE, but is funny looking in Calibre - the headings and titles are fairly non-bold-like. I'm sure there's reason (like not using a real bold version of Frutiger in my calls).
Calibre uses the QWebView component from Qt, and it has problems with embedded font variants. It doesn't display them. So if your book has an embedded font in several variants--normal, bold, italic--it will only ever display the normal version.

Sigil uses the same Qt component and therefore has this issue as well. It's the main reason why font embedding is still absent from Sigil... there's little point trying to embed a font if you can't preview all the font variants.

ADE is (sadly) your best benchmark for embedded fonts.

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