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September 16, 2009

How to embed fonts in ePub files

(You may be interested in the earlier article, When to embed fonts in ePub files.)
Font selection
Font formats and licensing are complicated. The ePub specification recommends that book designers and reading system implementers use OpenType fonts when possible (although TrueType fonts remain more common). If your font ends in a .otf extension, it’s an OpenType font. [...]

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February 15, 2009

Tools of Change twitter visualization

Geeks love raw data, so I couldn’t resist a text dump of all #toc tweets that occurred during the conference.
Here’s the quick visualization I threw together (warning, it loads very slowly):

It skips any images that are broken or any that were listed as having the Twitter default icon. For some reason the raw data [...]

Recent Comments

Using Flash video in ePub (17)
- Liza Daly: I first heard about the licensing issue here as part of the discussion about — what else? — video in HTML5: Dive into HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim.
- Peter Collingridge: On licensing fees – it is my understanding that MP3 also comes with a license fee that has (at times) been recouped by the license holders. It may be ±2% of gross. That...
- Dave Thomas: Be careful recommending H.264—you may be liable to pay royalties on paid content (and, starting next year, on free content) that includes H.264-encoded content. I’m no expert on...
- Hamranhansenhansen: > Flash > QuickTime Neither of those are suitable, because they are proprietary to Adobe and Apple respectively, and so they are not supported on all platforms. In order...
CSS columns for ebook text (5)
- Liza Daly: Apparently getBoundingClientRect doesn’t work on the iPhone anyway (I remember experimenting with it ages ago; this may have been why I gave up on it.) c.f....
- Liza Daly: Oh no, I was experimenting with getBoundingClientRect based on finding it in your code (we only care about WebKit on the mobile devices). So far it was meeting my needs (paired with...
- Joseph: I agree — finding the real location of columned elements has been something of a frustration for Monocle too. GetClientRects is promising, but was still erroneous in the last testing I did...