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Old 08-04-2012, 03:41 PM   #1
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Adobe New Open Source Font Doesn't Render in ADE?
Adobe has a new open-source font:

http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/...-sans-pro.html

http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/stor...kage&code=1959

However, when I embedded it in a test epub, it failed to render in ADE and on my Sony T1. It does, however, render in Calibre's Ebook-Viewer (but with inconsistent results for italic and bold).

I tried both ttf and otf versions. I also included a third open font (Fontin) as a control, and Fontin renders fine. The epub also validates using EpubCheck and FlightCrew and the CSS validates using the W3C validator.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
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Old 08-04-2012, 05:16 PM   #2
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Ironic isn't it? Adobe releases a free font that won't work in their own desktop ePub renderer.

ADE is quite finicky when it comes to embedded fonts. There are many examples of fonts that work practically everywhere but ADE. I've found that most of the time ... the OS/2 version property of the font is the culprit. Seriously. I know ... crazy, right? Fontforge seems to default to OS/2 version 4 if the setting is left to automatic when generating the TrueType or OTF fonts, and I've never found a font yet saved as OS/2 version 4 that will work in ADE (when embedded in an ePub). Ever.

Long story short: open the font in FontForge, check the Font Info (Element menu) and confirm that they are OS/2 version 4, change to version 3 and re-generate the font. Bingo, bango, bongo... embedded font now works in ADE (any OS/2 version less than 4 seems to be the key here. The Fontin font—for example—is OS/2 version 1).

I fixed the TTF fonts and attached them if you want to verify that it works. Hope that helps.

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Old 08-04-2012, 10:34 PM   #3
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DiapDealer! Your fixed fonts work great! (and I'm relieved it wasn't an html or css error on my part -- I double-checked and triple-checked. It was really making me crazy.)

I checked out Fontforge. Sadly, the install instructions went way over my head.

I hesitate to impose, but if it's not too much trouble, might I persuade you to fix the semi-bold, semi-bold italic, black and black-italic versions of this font?

If it's not too much trouble, I would be eternally grateful.
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Old 08-04-2012, 11:51 PM   #4
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A bit of exercise for a quiet Saturday night... useful, I hope.

Here's the complete set of TTF files. It's easy, once you figure out that reviewing the errors (self-intersecting and missing extremity points) doesn't also save the file. I hope those errors don't cause problems; I haven't taken the time to embed these in something to check them - at all. The affected characters seemed to be out of the usual ranges. Also, this was my first attempt at generating a font; usually I just go in to check coverage. So please let me know if anything needs fixing. I hope I haven't wasted anyone's time but my own.

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Old 08-05-2012, 12:10 AM   #5
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There is a version of Fontforge compiled to run under Windows.

http://www.mpetroff.net/software/fontforge-windows/
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It does, however, render in Calibre's Ebook-Viewer (but with inconsistent results for italic and bold).
I noticed these inconsistent results for italic and bold with any embedded font in callibre and sigil (same engine).

The font is ok, it's just the rendering-engine which fails here.
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Old 08-05-2012, 09:58 AM   #7
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@pholy - Your fixed fonts work great! Thank you so much for taking the time to fix the complete set.

@JSWolf - Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, I'm on a Mac so Fontforge compiled for Windows doesn't help me. But I appreciate your taking the time to post.

@mmat1 - Thanks for the Calibre tip. Good to know.

And of course, big thank you to DiapDealer for the providing the solution. To say it's ironic that ADE won't read an Adobe font is putting it mildly. Doh!
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@pholy - Your fixed fonts work great! Thank you so much for taking the time to fix the complete set.

@JSWolf - Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, I'm on a Mac so Fontforge compiled for Windows doesn't help me. But I appreciate your taking the time to post.

@mmat1 - Thanks for the Calibre tip. Good to know.

And of course, big thank you to DiapDealer for the providing the solution. To say it's ironic that ADE won't read an Adobe font is putting it mildly. Doh!
ADE 1.8.3 preview works fine with the fonts as is.
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ADE 1.8.3 preview works fine with the fonts as is.
That's correct... but not very relevant until ADE 1.7 is dead, buried, and all devices upgraded to the new rendering engine.
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This is my problem exactly. While I'm happy that Adobe has fixed the problem in ADE 1.8.3, what I really need is for Sony to update its firmware (by upgrading its version of Adobe Mobile Reader SDK?) to match since I do 99% of my reading on my T1/350. I just use ADE to test stuff on my computer.
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This is my problem exactly. While I'm happy that Adobe has fixed the problem in ADE 1.8.3, what I really need is for Sony to update its firmware (by upgrading its version of Adobe Mobile Reader SDK?) to match since I do 99% of my reading on my T1/350. I just use ADE to test stuff on my computer.
But now that you know the problem and the solution, it can be fixed if you want to install Fontforge.

To be honest, I doubt you'll be getting a newer version of ADE. Maybe the T2 will have a newer ADE. But I doubt the T1 on down will have ADE updated.
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DiapDealer, great job at diagnosing the problem and patching the fonts. While I appreciate your efforts, I must remind you and pholy that by distributing modified versions of Source Sans Pro while using the Reserved Font Name 'Source' you are both in violation of the fonts' license.

Please disable the current font downloads, or provide them under a different font name.

We're working on a revision to Source Sans Pro that will fix this and other issues, and we'll post it on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcesans.adobe/files/) as soon as it's ready.

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Opps, sorry, Miguel. I saw the 'open source' designation but missed the 'reserved name' qualification. I have asked the mods to remove the download link from my post, and presumably DD will do the same.
How soon do you expect to post new files? (Is it worth my while to expend the creativity to come up with a new name and regenerate all the files?) Would you please post a note here when you do? Thanks - pholy
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While I appreciate your efforts, I must remind you and pholy that by distributing modified versions of Source Sans Pro while using the Reserved Font Name 'Source' you are both in violation of the fonts' license.

Please disable the current font downloads, or provide them under a different font name.
Done. My apologies for not paying closer attention to detail.
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