06-26-2011, 12:16 PM | #1 |
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Ō, what to do with it?
Bear with me as a noob in these matters.
I have converted a book with the Japanese letters Ō and ō from mobi to epub and lrf with Calibre. Unfortunately the book shows up perfectly in Calibre, Firefox and Sigil - just not in the Sony Reader. The letters show up as "?" in epub and as blanks in lrf. (I have the same problem with the name Žižek in a different book.) Is there a simple way to handle this problem that is available for me as a noob? I do not like to flash the firmware or to learn programming just for this book. Usually I would try to avoid these issues by converting it to pdf, unfortunately as the book also contains maps the results of converting it with Calibre to pdf are somewhat unsatisfactory. I always understood that lrf-files also include required fonts. Why doesn't it work with this file? Thanks in advance for your help. |
06-27-2011, 03:47 AM | #2 |
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LRFs/EPUBs support embedded fonts. PDF with embedded font is also an option.
Calibre should be capable of doing it, afaik, but I don't know the details since I don't use it. |
06-28-2011, 09:40 PM | #3 |
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I would also go with epub and embedded fonts. I've done this to get Polish chars working before I flashed the firmware. I wrote a little guide for myself, but it's mostly the post at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61587 adapted for Arial.
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07-08-2011, 10:40 AM | #4 |
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kartu, Xaphiosis, thanks very much for your help. I managed to create a usable pdf for this book by converting it into rtf in Calibre and by printing it into a pdf after adjusting the book in MS Word. That's just a very clunky workaround, though.
I'll try to work with the solution you have linked to in your post, Xaphiosis. |