I need a font

Sharlene · 10-27-2011, 11:38 AM

Hello everyone.

I have a manuscript that i'm trying to convert. It has one phrase in the book that is in "Old English" font. How would I get it to show up in this font on an ereader? Do I need to embed the font? how? Can it be done?

Thanks for your help.

pdurrant · 10-27-2011, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Sharlene

Hello everyone.

I have a manuscript that i'm trying to convert. It has one phrase in the book that is in "Old English" font. How would I get it to show up in this font on an ereader? Do I need to embed the font? how? Can it be done?

Thanks for your help.

For ePub you can indeed embed a font and use that for the text. But not all epub renderers will actually use the font. I see to recall that the Apple iBooks application didn't allow embedded fonts, but that may have changed by now.

For Kindle your only option is to embed the text as an image, if it's required that it be in a special font. The main drawback is that the image won't scale with the text.

It's possible that this limitation will be eliminated with the new KF8 Kindle format, but it's not yet available.

JSWolf · 10-27-2011, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by pdurrant

For ePub you can indeed embed a font and use that for the text. But not all epub renderers will actually use the font. I see to recall that the Apple iBooks application didn't allow embedded fonts, but that may have changed by now.

iBooks does allow embedded fonts. You have to do something non-standard to turn on embedded fonts though.

Sharlene · 10-27-2011, 02:10 PM

If a reader won't read the embedded font, what will it do to the text?? Leave a blank space? funny characters? bold it?

@JSWolf, what do you mean by doing something non-standard??

Thank you for your help, i'm going to go and figure out how to embed fonts

JSWolf · 10-27-2011, 08:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sharlene

If a reader won't read the embedded font, what will it do to the text?? Leave a blank space? funny characters? bold it?

@JSWolf, what do you mean by doing something non-standard??

Thank you for your help, i'm going to go and figure out how to embed fonts

Read the following for iBooks.

http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/se...ay-options.xml

You embed the fonts the standard ePub way, but with iBooks, you have an additional step to activate them.

10-27-2011, 11:38 AM	#1
Sharlene Member Posts: 20 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: none	I need a font Hello everyone. I have a manuscript that i'm trying to convert. It has one phrase in the book that is in "Old English" font. How would I get it to show up in this font on an ereader? Do I need to embed the font? how? Can it be done? Thanks for your help.

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Sharlene Member Posts: 20 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: none	If a reader won't read the embedded font, what will it do to the text?? Leave a blank space? funny characters? bold it? @JSWolf, what do you mean by doing something non-standard?? Thank you for your help, i'm going to go and figure out how to embed fonts

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