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Originally Posted by charleski
No, that would be an extremely bad idea.
ADE's desktop app roughly mirrors the result that will be obtained when reading the same book on a portable reader using ADE (which is still the most common reading system on portable devices). While final proofing should always take place on a target device to check element positioning and paging, the desktop app is extremely useful for soft-proofing during the design process.
Desktop epub readers that rely on system fonts may look nice (sometimes, I've seen some really dodgy font rendering), but this 'feature' makes them worthless for getting an idea of how the book will look on a reader. It's only 'brilliant' if you plan on reading it on your PC...
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What you're asking for is a reference rendering. For that, sure, ADE should
closely exactly match what you'll see on an embedded Reading System.
But font substitution would be brilliant for a PC reader who doesn't care about the portable reading devices. I'm sure you're not dismissing the technology from the point of view of a reader. Font substitution is bad for reference rendering, but great for user-oriented rendering.
Basically, ADE should have a "use font substitution" option.