Comments on: When to embed fonts in ePub files

By: Liza Daly

Liza Daly — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:34:12 +0000

Bookworm happens to work if the user has the fonts on their machine already (as is likely to happen if you were the author of the ebook!) What we don’t do is actually extract the fonts from the ebook.

By: Liz Castro

Liz Castro — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:09:28 +0000

Looks like Bookworm *does* support embedded fonts now. Any other updates you know of to this article?

thanks!

Liz

By: Peter Hofmann

Peter Hofmann — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:04:27 +0000

I hope some day it will be standart for any font reader to support embedded fonts and I also hope that font designers do their best to optimize as many fonts as possible to digital reading needs so we designers can make ebooks more attractive by choosing a font that reflects the impression of the readers experience to a degree, that a good printed book does.

I was really dissappointed when I figured that eBooks in ePub format do have so many rules to follow and there are so few things that one can do to actually change the look and feel of the eBook to make it stand out. I hope that some day eBooks can really become as attractive to the recipients eye as printed books with all the additional possibilitys of interactive content.

By: liza

liza — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:47:37 +0000

Thanks for the clarification, Peter, that makes sense.

By: Peter Sorotokin

Peter Sorotokin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:42:39 +0000

SVG just draws lines, so it doesn’t require any fonts to do its job.

Yes, but since text has to occupy some space in SVG its metrics must be well-defined. Otherwise labels can start to overlap or some unexpected gaps appear. And the only way to guarantee font metrics in EPUB/SVG is to embed fonts (PDF has a way to only embed metrics, but it is rarely used today).

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By: liza

liza — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:48:17 +0000

(This is based on my assumption that math rendering in SVG is based on drawing line primitives, but if specific math fonts are used, then I’m sure you’re right.)

By: liza

liza — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:12:02 +0000

SVG just draws lines, so it doesn’t require any fonts to do its job. I don’t know how MathML engines handle rendering.

By: Paul Topping

Paul Topping — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:09:48 +0000

Liza,

Equations rendered using real fonts, via MathML, SVG or whatever, have to count on the presence of those fonts on the reading system or characters will be missing. I’m surprised by your comment. Equations often contain unusual characters. Why wouldn’t they need font embedding?

Paul

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