From: Bill Meahan <subscribed_lists@meahan.net>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: 'kern': TrueType table and GPOS lookup feature
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:39:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B8E134.2020207@meahan.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50B8D947.50003@wxs.nl>
On 11/30/2012 11:05 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 11/30/2012 10:58 AM, Steve White wrote:
>
>> 5) There was also a report that OpenType kerning doesn't work in some
>> E-Book readers (I know this isn't the forum for that, but ...) . My
>> iriver Story kerns very nicely text in FreeSerif. Can I get an example
>> of an E-reader for which kerning fails? (I really don't doubt that they
>> exist!)
>
> Natively I suppose? If a pdf file is viewed on an ebook reader it's
> not the ereader's issue.
>
> Hans
PDF preserves typography IF the fonts are on the machine or embedded in
the document. That includes kerning.
EPUB and Kindle are based on XHTML and pay no attention to any
typography or kerning set by the creator. The *user* chooses the
typeface and line-spacing while the text width is either the width of
the screen or the width of the window if run on PC,Mac &al. Any kerning
is strictly a function of the E-reader and the particular typeface
("font") chosen by the user.
The EPUB3 spec alleviates this somewhat as it allows font embedding.
--
Bill Meahan
Westland, Michigan USA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-30 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-30 7:06 Pablo Rodríguez
2012-11-30 9:13 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 9:58 ` Steve White
2012-11-30 10:18 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-30 11:40 ` Steve White
2012-11-30 12:24 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-30 14:25 ` Steve White
2012-11-30 15:30 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-30 15:38 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 18:12 ` Steve White
2012-11-30 18:22 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 19:37 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-30 21:25 ` Steve White
2012-11-30 22:02 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 23:57 ` Pablo Rodríguez
2012-12-01 16:22 ` Steve White
2012-12-01 19:22 ` luigi scarso
2012-12-01 19:38 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-12-01 19:46 ` luigi scarso
2012-12-01 19:58 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-12-01 21:09 ` luigi scarso
2012-12-02 9:58 ` Steve White
2012-12-02 13:12 ` Khaled Hosny
2012-12-02 14:32 ` Steve White
2012-12-02 14:49 ` Khaled Hosny
2012-12-02 10:10 ` Steve White
2012-12-02 10:24 ` luigi scarso
2012-12-02 10:43 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-12-02 11:08 ` Steve White
2012-12-02 11:48 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-30 15:43 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 14:13 ` Khaled Hosny
2012-11-30 15:41 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 16:05 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-30 16:39 ` Bill Meahan [this message]
2012-11-30 18:08 ` Steve White
2012-11-30 19:07 ` Bill Meahan
2012-11-30 21:24 ` Steve White
2012-11-30 18:34 ` Steve White
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