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  • 1.  ePub with Chinese character

    Posted 03-27-2009 03:11
    After I create epub book, FBReader works fine, Adobe Digital Editions
    can't display
    Chinese character, only show '????'.

    Is there any advice for Chinese eBook ?

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    Dongsheng Song



  • 2.  Re: [docbook-apps] ePub with Chinese character

    Posted 03-27-2009 15:27
    On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Dongsheng Song
    <dongsheng.song@gmail.com> wrote:
    > After I create epub book, FBReader works fine, Adobe Digital Editions
    > can't display
    > Chinese character, only show '????'.
    >
    > Is there any advice for Chinese eBook ?

    Either embed a font or use a different reader. Adobe Digital Editions
    comes with basically no font support.


    Keith



  • 3.  RE: [docbook-apps] ePub with Chinese character

    Posted 03-27-2009 17:38
    > > After I create epub book, FBReader works fine, Adobe Digital Editions
    > > can't display Chinese character, only show '????'.
    > >
    > > Is there any advice for Chinese eBook ?
    >
    > Either embed a font or use a different reader. Adobe Digital Editions
    > comes with basically no font support.

    I've searched for the same issue some time ago with the same hint:
    http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b66d43

    But I haven't tested embeding yet. To tell the truth, I am afraid of some
    legal problems with the font license in such case.

    Jan




  • 4.  Re: [docbook-apps] ePub with Chinese character

    Posted 03-27-2009 18:03
    Hi,

    I don't know that you'd get better results with Chinese EPUBs, but Digital
    Editions 1.7 pays attention to the xml:lang attribute, and font rendering
    is, sometimes, affected, so you may bet better results when the language is
    identified.

    As to font license issues...

    Well, there's some information online that should help you in knowing what's
    appropriate and what is not. We have a guideline, ok, it's for embedding
    fonts in PDF not EPUB, but it does cover the basics of font embedding and
    the permissions set within the font:

    www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/FontPolicies.pdf

    There's also an approach to protecting the fonts that is covered in the
    following document:

    http://www.idpf.org/doc_library/informationaldocs/FontManglingSpec.html

    With InDesign we make sure that we are following the font permissions and we
    protect the fonts.

    Of course, I don't think anyone has implemented the font mangling in a
    DocBook tool chain, but the font protection isn't really all that difficult.

    Oh, and ADE 1.7 supports that font protection, so between that and
    EPUBCheck, you'd have some things to test against.

    HTH

    Paul

    On 3/27/09 10:37 AM, "honyk" <j.tosovsky@email.cz> wrote:

    >>> After I create epub book, FBReader works fine, Adobe Digital Editions
    >>> can't display Chinese character, only show '????'.
    >>>
    >>> Is there any advice for Chinese eBook ?
    >>
    >> Either embed a font or use a different reader. Adobe Digital Editions
    >> comes with basically no font support.
    >
    > I've searched for the same issue some time ago with the same hint:
    > http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b66d43
    >
    > But I haven't tested embeding yet. To tell the truth, I am afraid of some
    > legal problems with the font license in such case.
    >
    > Jan
    >
    >
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