Since you say that most eBook readers do not
support font embedding, then it seems the only way I can publish this as an ebook (it is about 26 pages long) is to handle each page as a jpg, including the text, rather than as text (because the Yoruba text uses orthography that needs a particular font)?
Currently only the Adobe ® Acrobat ® Reader and Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader
support font embedding, as this is a feature of the PDF file format.
Not exact matches
Though ePub2 intentionally
supported reflowable format which indeed was a game changer, it lacked in reliable styling and
embedded font support.
If your Unicode content includes characters from the Private Use Area, ensure that you have an
embedded font with the proper
support, and consider including a warning to users about the need for
embedded font support when reading the eBook.
Mainly because of legal restrictions, but also because of bad device
support,
embedding fonts is not a good idea.
The app doesn't seem to
support embedded fonts so that can't be what that menu item is for.
What EPUB 3 does, fundamentally, is just pin things down that are under - specified in HTML5 (whether MathML is there, what
embedded font formats are
supported, that XML encoding is used,...).
WRT
embedded fonts... all four major ereader systems
support embedded fonts.
It's a flexible format that
supports many features including
embedded video, audio, pop - ups,
embedded fonts, multi-column formats, and more.
Nooks and Kobo had it long before Kindle (which, since September 2012,
supports embedded fonts in all Amazon devices from Kindle Keyboard forward, and all Kindle apps except for Kindle for iOS and Kindle Cloudreader).
If I'm not mistaken,
font embedding issues in ID - spawned ebooks have more to do with ID's
font obfuscation algorithm than the
font - rendering
support in the devices or apps (including Kindle desktop apps).
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The main positives about the blending of the two formats in a singular ebook format is the ability for publishers to display video, audio, interactivity, global language
support, multi-column layout,
embedded fonts, and the backwards compatibility with EPUB 2.
Reading Systems with a CSS Viewport must
support OpenType [OpenType] and WOFF [WOFF]
fonts embedded using the @font - face rule.
Some new features include improved SVG and JavaScript
support, MathML, semantic tagging, and
embedded font support.
Based on HTML5, EPUB 3 adds
support for rich media (audio, video), interactivity (JavaScript), global language
support (including vertical writing), styling and layout enhancements, SVG,
embedded fonts, expanded metadata facilities, MathML, and synchronization of audio with text and other enhancements for accessibility.
There are other ways to represent HTML5 - based publications but they are proprietary (iBooks Author format, Inkling format, Kindle KF8) and / or under - specified (Baker Framework's HPub), not designed for interoperability, and don't have the features of EPUB 3 (global language
support, accessibility, fixed layout as well as reflow, audio synchronized with text rendering,
embedded fonts,...).
Before you produce an epub file for a device which
supports embedded fonts, you should first consider using one of the
fonts already built into the device.
some advancements include enhanced video and audio
support,
embedded fonts and improve SVG
support.
This is especially true when the ePub format is capable of
supporting embedded fonts and the same level of aesthetic sophistication that's present on the web.
A PDF eBook does have some benefits: unlike eBooks which may have wonky
font support, all
embedded fonts will show up properly on anyone's device or computer.
PDF
supports «
font embedding».
Ibooks seems cool too (although I wish it
supported font -
embedding).
One point of interest is that EPUB specifically
supports the CSS 2 @font - face rule, which allows for
embedded fonts.
Timothy: I've been told that no
embedded fonts are
supported in iBooks at this time, even if they were SVG (and SVG
fonts are currently very uncommon in the ePub ecosystem; they're almost always TTF or OTF).
This process is not very difficult to do on a technical level, but it can be frustrating to see the various levels of
support for
embedded fonts in the different devices.
If the language you need is not
supported you can always bypass this limitation by saving the document as PDF that has all of the
fonts embedded.
The aggregators do not take
embedded fonts even if iBooks
supports it.
Work on a major revision of the EPUB specifications began in 2010, with the goal of aligning EPUB more closely with HTML, and in the process bringing new, native multimedia features, sophisticated CSS layout rendering and
font embedding, scripted interactivity, enhanced global language
support, and improved accessibility.
EPUB 3 requires Reading Systems to
support the OpenType and WOFF
font formats for
embedded fonts in conjunction with the CSS @
font - face rules.
It will look like an image on ereaders that
support embedded fonts, while all others will simply display the asterisk.
Again, make sure you use a glyph or combination of glyphs that will still look good on ereaders that do not
support embedded fonts.
In a demonstration of the e-readers, Sharp showed how video can be
embedded and played from documents,
support for vertically orientated Japanese script and the changing of
font sizes without altering the content and picture layout on the page.
According to Amazon's site, KF8, in addition to HTML5 and CSS3
support, can do drop caps, fixed layout, text pop ups, and
embedded fonts (all of which I have been able to do).
Support for
embedded fonts also ensures that characters and glyphs unique to an EPUB Publication can be
embedded for proper display.
To address this problem, EPUB 3.1
supports the
embedding of
fonts to facilitate the rendering of text content, and this practice is advised in order to ensure content is rendered as intended.
Embedding fonts with the Kindle DX won't work because it doesn't
support KF8 - formattted books.
It has full
support for Table of Contents, bookmarks, CSS, a reference mode, printing, searching, copying, multi-page view,
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I want to translate some of your good reviews and post them at our blog in Arabic, we have a little growing community of e reader owners, as you know the big problem of e-readers that not all of them
support Arabic except in pdf through
embedding fonts, browsing web and system does not have Arabic
support.
NOOK
supports ebooks containing
embedded fonts — although this
support might be limited to Cyrillic, Greek, Hangeul, Vietnamese, and other alphabets that read left - to - right and top - to - bottom — but the title - and - author display on the library listings might not be legible.
Both ADE and IDPF
support obfuscated
fonts which use and XOR (exclusive or) technique to obscure the
fonts in an
embedded font set so that it can not be extracted and used by itself.