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Originally Posted by scottjl
hey. it was my posting. i'll flag it as a win if i want to.
seriously though.. the only thing missing, at this time, is the ability to support embedded fonts. which someone will probably take care of soon enough. ...
the iPad can display everything an eInk screen can right now, and is only missing one feature, working with embedded fonts. I'd say that's a win for the iPad.
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In your original post you were breaking things down into categories. I'll happily admit that the iPad wins a lot of categories. But I interpreted that part of your original post as being about fonts in particular, and the ipad loses that category.
Embedded fonts are a
hugely big deal to me, and even more so since the iPad does not support the full unicode character set with its native fonts. This is going to make it a big deal for huge segments of the globe whose language it not only doesn't support, but can't be made to support through the otherwise simple solution of embedding a font.
Yes, hopefully "someone" will take care of it soon, but that "someone" had better be Apple. It's no good if you have to pay for some third party app to support font embedding; it needs to be in the default book reader.