Fonts not respected in Viewer

mistersquid · 04-17-2010, 03:33 AM

New to Calibre. Thanks for this amazing piece of software.

When I alter the font for a viewer instance and print/print preview (to PDF) the resulting file does not use my selected font. Instead, the resulting file is set in Arial (ugh) which is the default font in the .mobi file I am viewing.

Can the viewer be made to respect the font selection it is displaying, am I doing something wrong, is this a bug, is this by design, or something else entirely?

kovidgoyal · 04-17-2010, 05:59 AM

Are you saying that changing the font in the viewer changes the displayed font on screen in the viewer but not when using the print potion?

mistersquid · 04-18-2010, 07:48 PM

Quote:

Are you saying that changing the font in the viewer changes the displayed font on screen in the viewer but not when using the print potion?

Yes, that is what happens for me: the viewer displays the changes but printing from the viewer (with changes displayed) generates copies that have the font of the original file.

kovidgoyal · 04-18-2010, 11:10 PM

That's a known limitation of the printing process. Basically printing happens in a separate context from the viewer.

04-17-2010, 03:33 AM	#1
mistersquid Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: iPhone + iPad	Fonts not respected in Viewer New to Calibre. Thanks for this amazing piece of software. When I alter the font for a viewer instance and print/print preview (to PDF) the resulting file does not use my selected font. Instead, the resulting file is set in Arial (ugh) which is the default font in the .mobi file I am viewing. Can the viewer be made to respect the font selection it is displaying, am I doing something wrong, is this a bug, is this by design, or something else entirely?

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04-17-2010, 05:59 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,349 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Are you saying that changing the font in the viewer changes the displayed font on screen in the viewer but not when using the print potion?

04-18-2010, 11:10 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,349 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	That's a known limitation of the printing process. Basically printing happens in a separate context from the viewer.

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