Rendering issue with Calibre - all fonts italicized - Page 2

DNSB · 12-04-2020, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu

I thought Calibre means, well, Calibre, not only Calibre 5.x. Like when people talk today of windows, they refer globally to the 7, 8 and 10 including flavours.

How often have you seen a bug fix propagated back to earlier versions of a program? So if I wanted to discuss a bug that Microsoft fixed in Windows NT 4.0 SP2, you would consider that relevant?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ghitulescu

Indeed, this is true.
However, wouldn't be nice that a free tool could do things a paysoftware can't? Like patching the font, the very same way it did subsetting or embedding or any other nice features...

For a free font editing tool? Check FontForge for an example. I tend to prefer a tool doing one job and doing it well to a Swiss Army knife tool. If you have the money, you could check out FontLab Studio which my employer uses.

Ghitulescu · 12-07-2020, 12:25 PM

Yeah, I think I was misunderstood.

I am also against swiss knife (I call these tools Office Syndrome), but ironically I still have a computer with NT4 but the last SP6 not 2.

Anyway, my idea was that it would have been nice for Calibre to provide a workaround for the book embedding fonts that exhibit this behaviour, not only for its own skin. In the end, such fonts existed backthen (I use Gabriola "for decades" and I don't have issues on my Sonies) and also ereaders based on webkit. It's not my problem, I admit, it's just a discomfort to see the preview in a strange manner - to see it correctly I have either to convert it to PDF or to sideload it onto one of my Sonies. God, I am lazy

, I am not really the adept of Per aspera ad astra if I can do it otherways.

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12-07-2020, 12:25 PM	#17
Ghitulescu Fanatic Posts: 563 Karma: 403106 Join Date: Aug 2014 Device: PRS-T1	Yeah, I think I was misunderstood. I am also against swiss knife (I call these tools Office Syndrome), but ironically I still have a computer with NT4 but the last SP6 not 2. Anyway, my idea was that it would have been nice for Calibre to provide a workaround for the book embedding fonts that exhibit this behaviour, not only for its own skin. In the end, such fonts existed backthen (I use Gabriola "for decades" and I don't have issues on my Sonies) and also ereaders based on webkit. It's not my problem, I admit, it's just a discomfort to see the preview in a strange manner - to see it correctly I have either to convert it to PDF or to sideload it onto one of my Sonies. God, I am lazy , I am not really the adept of Per aspera ad astra if I can do it otherways.