Sigil & Embedded Fonts

Danger · 12-17-2010, 11:52 PM

I am attempting to embed the Charis font family in an epub. It's not really needed, more of an experiment.

Anyway I followed one of the threads on MobileRead but could not get the fonts to really work. I then came across this:
http://blog.threepress.org/2009/09/1...in-epub-files/

Which seemed to go into it a bit more.

The problem I am having is that I seem to be able to get the regular font version of Charis but I cannot seem to be able to enable the Italics font at least in book view in Sigil. It seems to be working in ADE & the epub viewer plugin for Firefox though it does not work in Calibre.

Should the embedded fonts show up properly in Sigil assuming I have done the coding properly and the fonts are in the right spot or is Sigil limited in this regard. Just wanting to know if I should continue to beat my head against the wall trying to figure out what is wrong.

Pablo · 12-18-2010, 05:28 AM

Both Calibre and Sigil use the Qt library for the GUI. The current version of the library has a bug that prevents italics and bold to show properly with embedded fonts.
To check your book you have to use something else, like ADE or ePubreader, as you mentioned.

Danger · 12-18-2010, 10:56 AM

Thank you. At least I know what's wrong then and can work around that.

bremler · 12-18-2010, 09:57 PM

Hello just want to share my way around the italics/bold issue. I use Dreamweaver in conjunction with sigil. In Dreamweaver you can definitely see the italics and bolds. I do my html changes in Dreamweaver, then cut and paste in Sigil.

12-17-2010, 11:52 PM	#1
Danger Evangelist Posts: 490 Karma: 1665031 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Vancouver Island, Nanaimo Device: K2 (retired), Kobo Touch (passed to the wife), KGlo, Galaxy TabPro	Sigil & Embedded Fonts I am attempting to embed the Charis font family in an epub. It's not really needed, more of an experiment. Anyway I followed one of the threads on MobileRead but could not get the fonts to really work. I then came across this: http://blog.threepress.org/2009/09/1...in-epub-files/ Which seemed to go into it a bit more. The problem I am having is that I seem to be able to get the regular font version of Charis but I cannot seem to be able to enable the Italics font at least in book view in Sigil. It seems to be working in ADE & the epub viewer plugin for Firefox though it does not work in Calibre. Should the embedded fonts show up properly in Sigil assuming I have done the coding properly and the fonts are in the right spot or is Sigil limited in this regard. Just wanting to know if I should continue to beat my head against the wall trying to figure out what is wrong.

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12-18-2010, 05:28 AM	#2
Pablo Guru Posts: 970 Karma: 4999999 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Rosario, Argentina Device: SONY PRS-505, PRS-T2	Both Calibre and Sigil use the Qt library for the GUI. The current version of the library has a bug that prevents italics and bold to show properly with embedded fonts. To check your book you have to use something else, like ADE or ePubreader, as you mentioned.

12-18-2010, 10:56 AM	#3
Danger Evangelist Posts: 490 Karma: 1665031 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Vancouver Island, Nanaimo Device: K2 (retired), Kobo Touch (passed to the wife), KGlo, Galaxy TabPro	Thank you. At least I know what's wrong then and can work around that.

12-18-2010, 09:57 PM	#4
bremler Enthusiast Posts: 41 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: Sony PRS-T1	Hello just want to share my way around the italics/bold issue. I use Dreamweaver in conjunction with sigil. In Dreamweaver you can definitely see the italics and bolds. I do my html changes in Dreamweaver, then cut and paste in Sigil.

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