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Old 01-04-2010, 01:04 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
If ePub is the eBook format, then yes, it can have Monotype Bembo and it can have precise control over line spacing.
If the displaying device supports it.

You can do stuff like that in Adobe PDFs by embedding fonts, which makes the PDF larger but preserve the original font for the viewer.

ePub is a bit trickier - see http://www.idpf.org/doc_library/info...glingSpec.html for a discussion of the issues.

And I still suspect there will be devices that can display ePub that won't be able to display the embedded fonts, even if present.

I believe the ePub specification presumes graceful degradation -- that the device will simply ignore things it can't do, and not throw an error or fail to display the book.
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