Comments on: Bidirectional text in ePub http://blog.threepress.org/2009/11/21/bidirectional-text-in-epub/ Threepress creates software for publishers, educators and authors. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:22:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Liza http://blog.threepress.org/2009/11/21/bidirectional-text-in-epub/comment-page-1/#comment-2132 Liza Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:40:39 +0000 http://blog.threepress.org/?p=948#comment-2132 That isn't the case, as bookworm displays the font, as shown. That isn’t the case, as bookworm displays the font, as shown.

]]> By: Ben http://blog.threepress.org/2009/11/21/bidirectional-text-in-epub/comment-page-1/#comment-2130 Ben Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:03:44 +0000 http://blog.threepress.org/?p=948#comment-2130 I may be mistaken, but if ADE on your computer doesn't show Hebrew text (is lacking a Hebrew font) then it's likely that your computer actually lacks one. I would imagine that a program gets it's fonts from the underlying OS. Of course, if you want to absolutely ensure a font is available, then you can embed...at the cost of bloating your file by about 15x, and duplicating that font file in each ePub that requires it. I may be mistaken, but if ADE on your computer doesn’t show Hebrew text (is lacking a Hebrew font) then it’s likely that your computer actually lacks one. I would imagine that a program gets it’s fonts from the underlying OS.

Of course, if you want to absolutely ensure a font is available, then you can embed…at the cost of bloating your file by about 15x, and duplicating that font file in each ePub that requires it.

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