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Old 01-07-2010, 02:05 PM   #119
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Originally Posted by astra View Post
I am not sure you tell the full picture.

Correctly me if I am wrong but:

For ePub to be fast with embedded fonts, you must customise the reader. It would not work right out of box with a font of your choice. Basically the same as with LRF.
Where is the difference?
You embed the font in the ePub by either having the fonts in the ePub fule itself or in fonts off of the root and have the CSS point to it to use. You do not have to customize any part of the 505 to do this.

LRF is rather slow when you embed fonts. So if you want to change the font of an LRF, you have two choices, change the system font (long arduous process) or embed which makes the LRF too slow to enjoy reading.

Now the ePub with an embedded font is just fine. And you can get true italics, true bold, and anything else you can do with a font as well as have multiple fonts all over the page very easily.
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