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Originally Posted by frabjous
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.
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i meant that section to be on display of pages. fonts would be included in that. as you say, embedded fonts is a huge deal to you, but i'm guessing to 90% of the people out there, it isn't. i have over 500 ebooks and not a single one has an embedded font. so obviously that isn't important to me.
as for "someone". it doesn't have to be apple at all. apple didn't include the excellent PDF support GoodReader has and I didn't mind paying the buck for for it. don't expect Apple to deliver the
best application for everything, ibooks does the basics very well, for the rest, there's the app store. and don't go faulting apple on this, i don't see microsoft including an amazing ebook reader in windows or windows mobile. android doesn't include a do-all ebook reader either.
also, the ipad isn't available globally yet, so for the US character set, the support is just fine. maybe when they release it globally they'll include better language support.