iPad "Upgraded" to iBooks 3.2 – Bold fonts are extra-bold, italics are now bold-italic

MHC · 02-28-2014, 03:22 PM

I updated an iPad 2 from ios6 to ios 7.06 today and also updated iBooks to the latest version (3.2). I now have the following problems in all of my books:

Bold text (serif in this case) is now a very heavy extra bold.
Regular italics are now bold italic.

Are other people seeing this? Any fixes?

I'm a designer and my bosses are set on using iBooks to review epubs for approval. There is no way they'll approve new books for publication looking like this!

I checked my files in Marvin and ADE 2.0 and they look fine. CSS file looks normal, too.

meeera · 02-28-2014, 08:25 PM

It's displaying normally here, but on a current iPad, not an iPad 2.

jswinden · 02-28-2014, 09:39 PM

I don't normally use iBooks, but I tested this out for you. On all but one serif font iBooks seemed to be displaying italics in normal weight, that is, not bold. However, if I select the font Charter then italics is displayed in bold. I suspect there is a problem with Charter. I'm using an iPad mini Retina.

MHC · 03-03-2014, 08:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jswinden

I don't normally use iBooks, but I tested this out for you. On all but one serif font iBooks seemed to be displaying italics in normal weight, that is, not bold. However, if I select the font Charter then italics is displayed in bold. I suspect there is a problem with Charter. I'm using an iPad mini Retina.

That was it! What a simple thing that I didn't even think to try - I'm quick to assume the problem is with my code because there is so much that I don't know.

Thank you for taking the time to help a stranger.

jswinden · 03-03-2014, 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MHC

That was it! What a simple thing that I didn't even think to try - I'm quick to assume the problem is with my code because there is so much that I don't know.

Thank you for taking the time to help a stranger.

You are welcome. I'm glad that helped.

BTW, you should probably test out ePubs in other apps as well to make sure they are displaying correctly. iBooks might display a little differently than Marvin or Bluefire. Using multiple apps will better your chances of identifying any problems.

02-28-2014, 03:22 PM	#1
MHC Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad 2, old Kindle	"Upgraded" to iBooks 3.2 – Bold fonts are extra-bold, italics are now bold-italic I updated an iPad 2 from ios6 to ios 7.06 today and also updated iBooks to the latest version (3.2). I now have the following problems in all of my books: Bold text (serif in this case) is now a very heavy extra bold. Regular italics are now bold italic. Are other people seeing this? Any fixes? I'm a designer and my bosses are set on using iBooks to review epubs for approval. There is no way they'll approve new books for publication looking like this! I checked my files in Marvin and ADE 2.0 and they look fine. CSS file looks normal, too.

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meeera Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,862 Karma: 68407974 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Libra 2, iPadMini4, iPad4, MBP; support other Kobo/Kindles	It's displaying normally here, but on a current iPad, not an iPad 2.

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jswinden Nameless Being	I don't normally use iBooks, but I tested this out for you. On all but one serif font iBooks seemed to be displaying italics in normal weight, that is, not bold. However, if I select the font Charter then italics is displayed in bold. I suspect there is a problem with Charter. I'm using an iPad mini Retina.

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