MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Calibre generated ebooks for Sony does not work in iPad

Alex_T · 06-24-2010, 10:05 AM

I use Sony reader 900 and iPad, and has a books in fb2 format.
For Sony I need to generate epub files with embedded font because default font used in custom firmware I use is not satisfactory for me (Liberation font definitely not intended for mass reading - but this is another story).
So, I add Calibre plugin which allow to embed font with some tweaks, and it is working ok.

recently I try to upload these ebooks to iPad. and found, that some of them works, some not - itunes just ignore them (add to common library, but do not sync). after some time author of Calibre suggest that embedded fonts generate nonstandard namespace which probably not supported for iPad/iTunes, and definitely not supported by iBooks. this is true for 9.2 and iBooks 1.1 (and, by the way, works ok in previous version of iTunes).

so, the question - how I can convert single book to 2 different epub books, one for sony with embedded font (and switched on plugin), and another without (probably with switched off plugin), for the same book in the same time? I suspect that calibre allow only 1 instance of book per format?

may be it is possible just to strip embedded fonts during iPad upload?

06-24-2010, 10:05 AM	#1
Alex_T Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: iPad, Sony 900	Calibre generated ebooks for Sony does not work in iPad I use Sony reader 900 and iPad, and has a books in fb2 format. For Sony I need to generate epub files with embedded font because default font used in custom firmware I use is not satisfactory for me (Liberation font definitely not intended for mass reading - but this is another story). So, I add Calibre plugin which allow to embed font with some tweaks, and it is working ok. recently I try to upload these ebooks to iPad. and found, that some of them works, some not - itunes just ignore them (add to common library, but do not sync). after some time author of Calibre suggest that embedded fonts generate nonstandard namespace which probably not supported for iPad/iTunes, and definitely not supported by iBooks. this is true for 9.2 and iBooks 1.1 (and, by the way, works ok in previous version of iTunes). so, the question - how I can convert single book to 2 different epub books, one for sony with embedded font (and switched on plugin), and another without (probably with switched off plugin), for the same book in the same time? I suspect that calibre allow only 1 instance of book per format? may be it is possible just to strip embedded fonts during iPad upload?