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If you emebd Chinese fonts in a Kindle eBooks (KF8), how do you get the readers to turn on Publisher font? The problem there is that sure the Chinese fonts will show up under Publisher Font, but you get either a very poor sans-serif or the default serif font. You cannot have partial embedded fonts with your choice of main font with Kindles. This to me is a major design flaw in the software.
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I cannot tell you guys how FEW readers seem to even know that "publisher font" choice exists. This "discrepancy" (?) with the PPW family changed entirely how we coded eBooks, back when we first realized the challenge. You stand a very, very good chance of people not knowing it and not ever--ever--changing the book to Publisher font, so you can never assume, as we did with Fires and the K3's, etc. that the embedded chapter head, title page, etc., fonts would display, whilst the reader could change the body fonts to their whim. Ixnay on that. The PPW family overrides EVERYTHING. And if you (the reader) don't know about Publisher fonts, well. Then for Chinese, you're hosed. Hitch |
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* I don't know about fonts and Unicode and stuff but regarding Chinese characters embedded in English books.
* Seems like you would need the characters (font) that meets the original intent of the author i.e. simplified or traditional. So theoretically you would need both types of fonts to cover everything. * From reader's perspective, some would want to see authors intent, some would like to see simplified and some would like to see traditional. So a great option would be an option to select any of those, which probably is not realistic. * Chinese readers can usually figure out the word or sentence when looking at either one but not always and not correct especially when it gets into nouns, history, etc. |
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I've seen some ebooks (eg. Harry Potter) with a warning at the front telling people that they need to turn on Java for the best experience, etc.
Not that it is the best solution, but couldn't someone put a page telling the reader to enable embedded fonts, or somesuch?? |
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As far as Kindles are concerned, this is a non-issue. You don't need to embed Chinese fonts for Kindles that support embedded fonts, because they natively support both Traditional and Simplified Chinese. I.e., whether a user enables the display of publisher fonts doesn't really make much of a difference.
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