FontShrinker - tool to subset a font

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Jon:

Yes, of course we have, and it does not automatically subset the shy, or any other punctuation symbols. OR ligs, for that matter...I think it's a super tool for people to save space, in their own files, but it has some drawbacks (like the ligatures), that make it a better choice, for us, to use Tox's program.

Hitch

What's wrong with the ligatures?

Do you know which subsetter makes smaller sized font files?

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What's wrong with the ligatures?

Do you know which subsetter makes smaller sized font files?

Keep your skivvies on, dude!

There's nothing "wrong" with the ligatures. It's a problem at the Amazon LITB, for those of us making commercial books.

Without getting into a lot of our own hard-earned knowledge, the long and the short of it is, it's best not to upload any book with a specified body font (even one that is, of course, overridable), sans that fonts' full ligature set.

That means, you need a font subsetter that can automatically include the ligatures, even IF you are not directly calling them in the corresponding ePUB.

And no, I don't--the size isn't my primary concern, so that isn't something I look at a lot. To be honest.

Hitch