From: Steve White <stevan.white@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: 'kern': TrueType table and GPOS lookup feature
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:08:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEmWKkTrf4SSdb=CCQPvsQ4Wgj-+LcRPOtkk+Uu1M_4uUD-BNA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50B8E134.2020207@meahan.net>
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Hi Hans, Bill,
Yes, I'm personally aware of how PDF works.
This came from Pablo, who has since told me he was *not* referring to PDF
files, but EPUB books. So he is referring to the native font renderer.
That's all I know about it, except that kerning works on my own reader.
Anyway, this really isn't a question for this forum.
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Bill Meahan <subscribed_lists@meahan.net>wrote:
> 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 18:08 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
2012-11-30 18:08 ` Steve White [this message]
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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