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Old 08-17-2008, 09:11 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by wallcraft View Post
A font can be specified in an ePub ebook without embedding it. I'm not sure what the best way to do this is (e.g. to allow the best fall back). In any case, this does not help if the font isn't available on the target device. So this may help for Adobe DE on a PC, but not on the PRS-505.

The MobiPocket version currently works best on a PC, because the MobiPocket Windows Reader uses a very complicated (and sometimes broken) font matching scheme to ensure that all requested characters can be displayed. This may again not transfer to handheld devices with limited font support (even MobiPocket's scheme can only work from available fonts).
Well in CSS you simply specify multiple fonts when you want some sort of fallback. I don't even think that this is necessary in this case though: just specify the font and if it's not available it'll use the default font.
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