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Old 03-23-2010, 07:19 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by odt2epub View Post
It seems that only generic families sans and sans-serif are supported. Can anyone confirm that?
Yes. The default is serif and the only alternatives are sans-serif and monospace. These are all Adobe provided fonts, that don't have wide unicode coverage. As dmapr says, you can redefine the defaults on a PRS-505 by modifying the firmware - or just access user-provided fonts (placed on the device by the user) via each ebook's CSS.

Some fonts have serif and sans serif variants, which shows up in the font name. So far as I know, there is no way to otherwise tell if a font is serif or sans serif. This is really a continuum anyway, from the plainest sans serif to the fanciest serif.
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