new feature in editor "install fonts" - user mistake or bug

ratanplan · 04-21-2015, 01:42 AM

If I click the new button "install fonts" (in the "manage fonts" dialogue) a dialogue comes up and I am able to choose the font-file, which I want to integrate in the epub. By clicking "ok" the next dialogue says, that the font was added.
But: Nothing happend within the epub. Neither the chosen file appears in the book nor is the font displayed in the "manage fonts" dialogue, which should show all the embedded fonts.

Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug in this new feature?

kovidgoyal · 04-21-2015, 01:57 AM

Installing a font installs the font into calibre. To embed it into your epub file you need to add it to the css and use the embed font button.

ratanplan · 04-21-2015, 06:47 AM

Thank you for the clarification.
So I missunderstood, what this new feature is doing.

But do I be a nuisance, if I kindly request to enhance the editor in the way, I described above.

kovidgoyal · 04-21-2015, 07:54 AM

One cannot embed a font in an ebook just by selecting the font file, since there is no way for the editor to know what text to apply the font to. You have to first specify the font in the CSS.

ratanplan · 04-21-2015, 09:19 AM

OK. I understand.
(I thought, it would be possible to add automatically a "@font-face"-rule in the css, when a (new) font-file is integrated in the book. - But this seems to be another question/request (in accordance to "file/import file")...

)
Thank you for your patience!

eschwartz · 04-21-2015, 10:58 AM

Just add a font style to an existing rule that affects text in the book, then use embed fonts -- it will add the font file and font-face rules for the font you used.

Font faces are an incredibly useless thing to add, since they do utterly nothing.
Unless they are matched by a style which instructs content to render in a named font.
In which case Embed Fonts will add both the font file and the font face.

ratanplan · 04-21-2015, 12:49 PM

I played around with the new feature. Now - with the help of Kovid and eschwartz - I think, I understand, how to use it.

04-21-2015, 01:42 AM	#1
ratanplan Member Posts: 21 Karma: 84 Join Date: Feb 2015 Device: Kindle Voyage, Kobo Glo	new feature in editor "install fonts" - user mistake or bug If I click the new button "install fonts" (in the "manage fonts" dialogue) a dialogue comes up and I am able to choose the font-file, which I want to integrate in the epub. By clicking "ok" the next dialogue says, that the font was added. But: Nothing happend within the epub. Neither the chosen file appears in the book nor is the font displayed in the "manage fonts" dialogue, which should show all the embedded fonts. Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug in this new feature?

04-21-2015, 09:19 AM	#5
ratanplan Member Posts: 21 Karma: 84 Join Date: Feb 2015 Device: Kindle Voyage, Kobo Glo	OK. I understand. (I thought, it would be possible to add automatically a "@font-face"-rule in the css, when a (new) font-file is integrated in the book. - But this seems to be another question/request (in accordance to "file/import file")... ) Thank you for your patience! Last edited by ratanplan; 04-21-2015 at 09:22 AM.

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04-21-2015, 01:57 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,219 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Installing a font installs the font into calibre. To embed it into your epub file you need to add it to the css and use the embed font button.

04-21-2015, 06:47 AM	#3
ratanplan Member Posts: 21 Karma: 84 Join Date: Feb 2015 Device: Kindle Voyage, Kobo Glo	Thank you for the clarification. So I missunderstood, what this new feature is doing. But do I be a nuisance, if I kindly request to enhance the editor in the way, I described above.

04-21-2015, 07:54 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,219 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	One cannot embed a font in an ebook just by selecting the font file, since there is no way for the editor to know what text to apply the font to. You have to first specify the font in the CSS.

04-21-2015, 10:58 AM	#6
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	Just add a font style to an existing rule that affects text in the book, then use embed fonts -- it will add the font file and font-face rules for the font you used. Font faces are an incredibly useless thing to add, since they do utterly nothing. Unless they are matched by a style which instructs content to render in a named font. In which case Embed Fonts will add both the font file and the font face.

04-21-2015, 12:49 PM	#7
ratanplan Member Posts: 21 Karma: 84 Join Date: Feb 2015 Device: Kindle Voyage, Kobo Glo	I played around with the new feature. Now - with the help of Kovid and eschwartz - I think, I understand, how to use it.

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