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Old 03-08-2010, 04:13 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by charleski View Post
BTW, the reason you find that the letters show up in other readers is that they 'cheat' and use system fonts to render the text. ADE doesn't - it uses its own built-in font so that it can emulate what the epub looks like on a portable reader that uses ADE.
Cheat? Automatic and per-character font substitution is one absolutely amazing technology. I've never heard anyone refer to is as "cheating", but I've heard many refer to it as "brilliant".

ADE should most definitely use it.
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