ADE Portable Unicode font support

[Jellby]

Exactly, it's like building a spec-compliant ePUB that will be read on ADE (or RMSDK) or iBooks

[Jim Lester]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

So... "Here's the knowledge you'll need to efficiently search for the details you're not going to find." Have I got that right?

Well I could've left the "you're not going to find" part out, but I figured you really wouldn't thank me then. (There's your Haystack, go find the needle, but here's a really powerful magnet. Wow, you've been at this a while... did I mention the needle was ceramic?).

On a more serious side - while there isn't an abundance of information on the Adobe website of how OEMs implement their readers - their are the odd tidbits that may be helpful for future questions.

[DaleDe]

Barnes and Noble does specify the exact characters they support which is exactly ISO-8859-1 converted to UTF-8. This is a safe bet as the minimum support you will find in ADE. You can read about character sets in our wiki.

Dale

[Jim Lester]

Dale, this is less about what RMSDK supports, and more about the fonts that ship with a particular reader.

Our (B&N) statement (where was it BTW?) is based upon the fonts we ship with (and even there it's aspirational - there are current versions of some of the fonts that don't completely cover Latin-1 for instance, and some that include Cyrillic glyphs, etc... We've been working on getting this rationalized a bit more).

The fonts that ADE and RMSDK ships with (Myriad Pro and Minion Pro) have a bit wider coverage, but not complete.

I haven't stayed up to date with the glyph coverage for the fonts that Sony, Kobo, and Bluefire ship with, much less the lesser known OEMS.

[JSWolf]

I don't know what know what the default serif font is for Bluefire, but you can do an override and use Garamond which is a full version font.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by Jim Lester

Dale, this is less about what RMSDK supports, and more about the fonts that ship with a particular reader.

Our (B&N) statement (where was it BTW?) is based upon the fonts we ship with (and even there it's aspirational - there are current versions of some of the fonts that don't completely cover Latin-1 for instance, and some that include Cyrillic glyphs, etc... We've been working on getting this rationalized a bit more).

The fonts that ADE and RMSDK ships with (Myriad Pro and Minion Pro) have a bit wider coverage, but not complete.

I haven't stayed up to date with the glyph coverage for the fonts that Sony, Kobo, and Bluefire ship with, much less the lesser known OEMS.

Exactly true. What Fonts are part of ADE in the RMSDK is exactly what you get although in some of the early versions Adobe dictated the font you used and the font set was pretty much fixed.

The Barnes and Noble font set is part of the Pubit specifications on how to submit a ePub eBook. https://simg1.imagesbn.com/pimages/p...ting_guide.pdf. It is called the ePub formatting guide. I would assume this is official. The character support is listed in the Appendix.

Dale

[Jim Lester]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

Exactly true. What Fonts are part of ADE in the RMSDK is exactly what you get although in some of the early versions Adobe dictated the font you used and the font set was pretty much fixed.

Adobe never dictated font usage to RMSDK customers - Sony which was the first RMSDK customer shipped with their own fonts on the 500(a) and 505.

The Barnes and Noble font set is part of the Pubit specifications on how to submit a ePub eBook. https://simg1.imagesbn.com/pimages/p...ting_guide.pdf. It is called the ePub formatting guide. I would assume this is official. The character support is listed in the Appendix.

Dale

Thanks for the link - I'll make sure to get it updated appropriately.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by Jim Lester

Adobe never dictated font usage to RMSDK customers - Sony which was the first RMSDK customer shipped with their own fonts on the 500(a) and 505.



Thanks for the link - I'll make sure to get it updated appropriately.

Good to know. What I saw was the RMSDK didn't permit an easy way to choose from available fonts already on the device and didn't realize that this was unconnected. Newer implementations now offer selecting from a choice of fonts on my Hanlin device. Jinke was also an early adopter. ADE itself on the PC did dictate and not allow switching of fonts either so I must have gotten it mixed up.

Please let us know when the proper document is available.

Dale

[wijwij]

Sigil FAQ suggests the answer to OP's question may be the glyphs listed in Adobe PDF Reference, Appendix D1 and D3. Not sure what evidence backs this up.

http://code.google.com/p/sigil/wiki/...ectly_in_Sigil

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_...e_archive.html

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