Foreign TransIndic, Devanagari Arabic Fonts

[uieluck]

Looking for a solution for doing an ebook with these fonts..
I've made several ebooks so far, however limiting font options have got me stumped.
Does anybody have a suggestion, besides a PDF?
Thanks, Uie

[Jellby]

ePUB

You can just use UTF8 and let the reader deal with it, or make it simpler and embed the fonts (but then the user cannot change them easily).

[uieluck]

Is there a way to use UTF8 easily through InDesign 5.5,,, through an export?

[uieluck]

So I'm still trying to embed this font: TransIndicGara etc. in an ebook with NO success.
Here's the CSS embedding code I'm using:
@font-face {
font-family : "Adobe Garamond Pro";
font-style : italic ;
font-weight : normal;
src : url("fonts/AGaramondPro-Italic.otf");
}
@font-face {
font-family : "TransIndicGaraCant";
font-style : normal;
font-weight : normal;
src : url("fonts/TransIndicGaraCant.otf");
}
@font-face {
font-family : "DevanagariExtLA";
font-style : normal;
font-weight : normal;
src : url("fonts/DevanagariExtLA.otf");
}
@page {
margin : 0.5em;
}
tbody, thead, tfoot, tr, td, th {
border-style : inherit;
border-width : inherit;
border-color : inherit;
}
.leftFloat {
float : left;
}
.rightFloat {
float : right;
}
span.TOC-subtitle-ital {
font-family : "Adobe Jenson Pro", serif;
font-weight : normal;
font-style : italic;
}
span.char-style-override-1 {
font-family : "Adobe Garamond Pro", serif;
font-style : italic;
font-weight : normal;
}
span.char-style-override-2 {
font-family : "Adobe Garamond Pro", serif;
font-style : normal;
font-weight : normal;
}
p.devan {
font-family : "DevanagariExtLA", sans-serif;
font-weight : normal;
font-style : normal;
font-size : 1.5em;
text-decoration : none;
font-variant : normal;
line-height : 1.33;
text-align : center;
color : #000000;
text-indent : 0px;
margin : 0px 0px 18px 0px;
}
p.term {
font-family : "TransIndicGaraCant", serif;
font-weight : normal;
font-style : normal;
font-size : 1.67em;
text-decoration : none;
text-transform : uppercase;
line-height : 0.9;
text-align : center;
color : #000000;
text-indent : 0px;
margin : 23px 0px 0px 0px;
}
p.chapter-subtitle {
font-family : "Adobe Jenson Pro Lt", serif;
font-weight : 300;
font-style : italic;
font-size : 1.33em;
text-decoration : none;
font-variant : normal;
line-height : 1.13;
text-align : center;
color : #000000;
text-indent : 0px;
margin : 0px;
}
p.Basic-TOC-Text {
font-family : "TransIndicGaraCant", serif;
font-weight : normal;
font-style : normal;
font-size : 0.83em;
text-decoration : none;
font-variant : normal;
line-height : 1.4;
text-align : left;
color : #000000;
text-indent : -16px;
margin : 0px 0px 0px 16px;
}

[Jellby]

Can you show a full example? It doesn't need to be a real book, but a whole epub file that you'd expect to work. The CSS looks fine at first sight. Where are you testing it?

P.S. Are the fonts UTF8? Here I found that: "The Devanagari fonts of Baraha follow a proprietary encoding." That wouldn't be appropriate for epub embedding, you need UTF8 encoding all along. Try the Code 2000 font first.

[uieluck]

These are the fonts

[Jellby]

Well, the filenames say nothing about the font encoding or about the actual font name. The only font format that one should expect being supported is OpenType, and probably TrueType, I wouldn't be surprised if PostScript fonts are not supported by ePUB readers...

If you need more comments, you should provide a complete ePUB. You can trim the contents to something minimal, replace copyrighted material with some dummy text, and use free fonts instead of commercial ones, if that's a concern.

[Toxaris]

AFAIK only TTF and OTF are supported. I haven't heard of any other type so far.
There are some tools on the market that can convert font types into each other, perhaps that could help.

[uieluck]

A full epub file "un-tweaked" and without the embedding font css code. Yes, Toxaris, I've tried font converters to make the un-otf fonts OTF's. They won't convert those font without an error. I've contacted Linguist Software,, whom we have some foreign font licensing with, however they didn't have a solution. These fonts are making me loose my hair.

[Jellby]

OK, take Chapter 10, which should be the heading you posted in the first post. This is what it says in utf-8 (and the file correctly states it's utf-8 encoded):

<p id="toc_marker-1-1-10" class="term">KARMA AND SAÒSKÄRA</p>
<p class="chapter-subtitle">Action and Its Imprint</p>
<p class="devan">éº<span>@</span><span> </span>–ė響</p>

Which does not match the intended text, it should be something like:

<p id="toc_marker-1-1-10" class="term">KARMA AND SAṀSKĀRA</p>
<p class="chapter-subtitle">Action and Its Imprint</p>
<p class="devan">कर्म संस्कार<p>

Whether or not it shows fine for you depends on the available fonts for your browser, but the code is utf-8. A not particularly pretty font, but with a wide Unicode coverage is code2000. Or, using numerical entities (remove spaces between & and #):

<p id="toc_marker-1-1-10" class="term">KARMA AND SA& #7744;SK& #256;RA</p>
<p class="chapter-subtitle">Action and Its Imprint</p>
<p class="devan">& #2325;& #2352;& #2381;& #2350; & #2360;& #2306;& #2360;& #2381;& #2325;& #2366;& #2352;<p>

(According to Wikipedia, it's SAṂSKĀRA instead of SAṀSKĀRA, but that probably depends on the transliteration convention.)

Now, if you want more font choice, search for Unicode Devanagari fonts, like these.