ePub custom Fonts on all Sonys

[Valloric]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

IIRC ADE only supports CSS2

Which is the only thing it needs to support, since the OPS spec only supports CSS2 (and not even all of that).

[FizzyWater]

So if I use the originally listed technique - save the fonts to my Reader and put them in the CSS - what happens if I give a copy of the eBook to a friend whose Reader doesn't have the fonts saved? Bricked Reader? Crash/reset? Defaults to system fonts?

I looked at the Hounds of the Baskerville file, and it did display in my Reader as intended (pretty cool, actually). But I could imagine this could lead to much larger files...and is there any issue with using system fonts from my computer on eBooks distributed to others?

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by FizzyWater

So if I use the originally listed technique - save the fonts to my Reader and put them in the CSS - what happens if I give a copy of the eBook to a friend whose Reader doesn't have the fonts saved? Bricked Reader? Crash/reset? Defaults to system fonts?

I looked at the Hounds of the Baskerville file, and it did display in my Reader as intended (pretty cool, actually). But I could imagine this could lead to much larger files...and is there any issue with using system fonts from my computer on eBooks distributed to others?

if the fonts specified in the css are not present on your liseuse, then logically it would default to the system fonts. i have not tried it, however i did try to use a second decorative font in one book ; the decorative font turned out not to work (i think it was just an incompatible font file ; not all fonts are created equal ), so the text was displayed in the regular font instead. i don't think it's possible to brick anything using css, and i'd be pretty surprised if it even caused a crash ; at the very worst you might have trouble reading the book or displaying it correctly, but i doubt even that would happen.

also, since you are not adding the fonts to every book, but only a few lines of code, it won't lead to much larger files ; that is actually one of the benefits of this method ; you just move the font files *once*, but you can use them on every book formatted to use them, whereas when you embed fonts you must embed all the fonts in each file, and that *does* lead to larger files.

as for the question of using system fonts from your computer for sharing books, don't forget that if the person you share with wants to use the same font, they must also have a sony 505 / 700, and they must install the fonts in the correct folder (otherwise, it will just use the default fonts). there are many fonts available which are free and can be distributed with no problem ; anyone using the same system as you (windows ?) would have access to the same ones.

alternatively, you can choose one of the many many quality free fonts available (many discussed here). some fonts are not free to be distributed (this is true of many commercial font foundries like adobe and linotype), but it's easy enough to find good free fonts that this shouldn't be a problem.

[All4Fun]

Let me preface that I'm completely new to CSS but know enough to copy/paste and do basic editing of someone else's code. I have read this thread with great interest. Thank you for the contributions that have been provided.

I do have a question which I believe will be very easy for someone comfortable with CSS. How can I change the chapter headings so that they don't look like regular text and is larger? My guess is that it's a "heading" tag of some sort.

In brief, what would be the correct syntax to include a particular font family to "heading" text?

[pepak]

It's not CSS you want to modify, but your HTML file. Instead of

<p>CHAPTER 10</p>
<p>Blablabla...</p>

you want to use:

<h2>Chapter 10</h2>
<p>Blablabla...</p>

(The number in H2 can be anything from 1 to 6, 1 being the largest and most important.)
If you then want to enlarge the heading even more, you can use CSS:

h2 { font-size: 200%; }

[zelda_pinwheel]

the correct html tag for headings are the h series tags ; so, the largest header (i use it for the title) would be <h1>title</h1>, next largest is h2, etc.

usually i use h3 for chapters but that's a question of choice. in the css code, you can modify the font used, whether it's bold or not, italic, etc.

edit : or see pepak's much better answer just before me.

[All4Fun]

Thank you pepak and zelda-pinwheel for your informative replies. I understand now.

[atu1303]

Big thanks to zelda-pinwheel, i was able to read vietnamese on PRS 700 now

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by atu1303

Big thanks to zelda-pinwheel, i was able to read vietnamese on PRS 700 now

congratulations ! i'm glad you got it working.

[All4Fun]

If I purchase an epub, say of LOTR, and I want to use custom fonts as described earlier, will I be affecting my original epub source when Calibre copies it to my device so that I can get the custom fonts?

[netseeker]

Originally Posted by All4Fun

If I purchase an epub, say of LOTR, and I want to use custom fonts as described earlier, will I be affecting my original epub source when Calibre copies it to my device so that I can get the custom fonts?

When you add the epub to Calibres library, then Calibre will create a copy and leave the original as it is.

[gregcd]

Hi I've finally got this going
It looks awesome; variety of font makes a big difference.

I'm using droid serif (a google font)
http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/d...oogle-ascender

[Ankh]

Originally Posted by gregcd

I'm using droid serif (a google font)
http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/d...oogle-ascender

Why, thank you very much for the pointer to these fonts. Finally a decent serif font for 505.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Ankh

Why, thank you very much for the pointer to these fonts. Finally a decent serif font for 505.

It does look pretty good on my 505 at the default base size used by Calibre's ePub conversion.

[gregcd]

Glad other people like it.
This line will space out the text if it looks too dense:

p { line-height: 150%;}

Paste it at the end of the custom CSS in Calibre.