Fonts in iBooks.

Hello! Can I change the font on PDF books on iBooks as well as highlight words?

generally no. sometimes a pdf will be an image or snapshot of a document, not a document generated from real text.

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Can I embed fonts in IBook author

I want to use a different font from those available in IBook author Is ther a way of embedding different fonts in an IBook file?

sopharch wrote:
I want to use a different font from those available in IBook author Is ther a way of embedding different fonts in an IBook file?
If you are willing to use other apps to produce .epub instead of .ibooks, this may be useful:
http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/2011/04/embedding-fonts-in-epub-ipad-iphone-an d.html

Using custom fonts in iBooks Author

I have a book in South Asian (Indic) script. The encoding is Unicode. I wanted to see how different fonts would look on iPad. Using iBook Author i created two different versions of the book. One used Gujarati MT, Apple supplied font. The second used open source TTF font. It checked out fine by MacOS when I installed it. The rendering of conjuncts (which would use additional glyph present in the font file) on iBook Author looks good. When I use "preview" function of iBook Author to see how the content would look on iPad, conjuncts dont use special glyph but only standard character (I guess GSUB is not utilized). I tried the same experiment with Arial Unicode MS and Shruti both are standard fonts provided under Windows. it appears that only Apple supplied fonts have correct glyph substitution on iPad.
Is there a way to fix it?
If the issue is with iBook Author, I can use another software. My book is plain text so Author is an overkill. I was using it to test embedding of custom fonts because Author is easy to use.
If the issue is missing definition in the font that is required by iPad rendering engine, I can get the font author to enhance the font.
I attach four images. First two are from iBook Author where rendering is correct. The next two are from iPad where rendering using non Apple font is messed up.

rajeshfrompalo alto wrote:
Is comment about enhancing the font to support AAT still relevant? Are you saying that iOS needs those AAT extension that macOS does not need? Is this mostly around MORX table?
iOS (and OS X) comes with two Gujarati fonts, Gujarati MT and Gujarati Sangam MN. So the easiest thing to do is to use one of those.   Other platforms will probably have their own default Gujarati fonts with different names.
If you want to embed a different Gujarati font in your .ibooks format book, then you will indeed have to convert that font from OpenType to AAT before iBooks will display it correctly.   It's not true that OS X no longer needs AAT Indic fonts -- Pages for example still cannot use Opentype Indic fonts.
To convert an Opentype Indic font to an AAT Indic font I think someone will have to add a morx table along the lines of what is contained in Gujarati MT.
Bear in mind that iBooks Author creates a format that can only be read on an iPad (unless you want to export to PDF). If you want to produce books for all platforms and readers, then you need to use .epub format and a different app, like Pages or Indesign.   With epub format you would probably not normally try to embed fonts but just rely on the reader to supply whatever Gujarati font is already on the device.

Style of Ruusian fonts in iBooks

Dear Apple,
It is awfull you dont keep the same style of fonts for Russian language in iBooks fonts family Charter, Athlelas, Iowan, Platino, Seravek as for English one. If you don't want to do it, please send me the tools for drawing of proper shape for Cyrillic letters. I do it free for you
Thanks,
Regards to Johny Ive

oleg137 wrote:
Dear Apple,
For them to get this, you need to repeat it here (under whatever device you are using):
http://www.apple.com/feedback/

EPub with Embedded Fonts Causes iBooks/Mac to Hang

I have an ePub that I created with InDesign CC that I want to sell on the iBookstore. I've embedded the main font for the book, which is Adobe Caslon Pro. The text looks great in iBooks for Mac and iOS. However, in iBooks for Mac, if I click on the A up in the top right, to see what the font viewing choices are, I get an endless spinning beach ball and the only way out is to force quite iBooks.
This does not happen on iBook for iOS. Everything works as expected. I can go into the font menu and change fonts, sizes, etc. with no problems.
I've done extensive searching on the internet and can't find where anyone else is having this problem.
Hoping that someone here might have a clue.
I'm running the latest versions of Mavericks and iBooks.
Thanks in advance.

a brody, thanks for the advice. I can't say that when the Energy Saver settings have been set such that hard disk sleeping is not allowed that moving data between or among drives has been slow by any means, but I may try configuring the drives in a "normal" fashion as you suggest.
One question, though. In the main (rear) carrier of my computer, obviously I could set the jumpers to Master and Slave, but with only a single drive in the front carrier, would the advice be to set this to Master or Cable Select? It's this drive in the front carrier that seems to throw the system out of whack when it comes to the system trying to access it when it's already spun down. Instead of spinning it back up, the system just hangs (when the Energy Saver settings allow for the disks to sleep).
If additional information about my drive configuration is needed, I can't get to the system or the inside of the computer right now as it's in the middle of imaging my Tiger installation. However, I do recall that the front carrier had two separate ATA cables available, and I used the ATA 66 cable, which was supplied but not plugged into the logic board. I plugged it in the appropriate connector on the logic board (labeled ATA 66) and installed the drive, setting the jumper to Cable Select. The other (unused) cable is labeled on the logic board as ATA 33. I know that the drive I installed in the front carrier (an Ultra ATA drive) is backwards compatible with ATA 66, but I don't know about ATA 33. I'd have to refer to the Seagate website for further information on how the drive in question could be used.

How to embed fonts in ibook

Hi.
when I create an e-pub and i will view in iPad, the fonts will be sostituited by system fonts. How can I do to embed and view the original fonts in e-pub?
tks

I just spent a half an hour looking through the menus and Help and I couldn't find an option to enable that feature. It doesn't seem to be available. But, that doesn't mean it's not possible. There are certainly work-arounds, like printing your slide show and then choosing to save as a PDF. The PDF could be displayed with Acrobat Reader on any computer and the fonts would be imbedded.
-Doug

HT4059 default fonts in ibooks

Easy question. I'm learning to convert some brochures in ePublishing for work. Is there a list of default fonts? I have a script that overrides, but Impact does not work.
Any help and further reading for ePub is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Daniel

Hi Niels,
There is some sort of entity settings file that Frame opens (in the background) during XML import that is actually a binary FM file and contains fonts like this. On FM11 on my machine it is here:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker11\Structure\entfmts
When FM attempts to read it during an import, you'll get these font errors if your machine doesn't have them. The solution is to make a backup of the file, then go into the original and just replace those fonts with something else. I'm not really clear on what this file is for but replacing fonts in it have never had any consequence for me. But like I said, make a backup
See if that fixes the problem.
Russ

Embed fonts on iBook on iPad Air iOS8 8.0.2 not working

Hi. I have an iPad Air with new iOS 8.0.2 and my embed fonts on my eBook just stop working.
Now when I use "Original" font the iPad is showing a generic serif font.
Where is my embed fonts?
I have a lot of work and research on internet to make them work and now they are gone.
Thanks
Ivan Milazzotti

I have been in contact with Apple support. First, iOS diagnostics, everything ok, then restore using iTunes, the problem persists. They have recommended that I try to call more contacts and see if the problem continues. They suggest that the wifi can be the problem or restore using iTunes again but deleting files stored on the PC.
I wonder if the wifi of my contacts is not right ... that's what makes my iPad reboots? I can understand that the call is cut, but do not restart ipad ...

Does iBooks author and iBooks support thai fonts?

I ,live in Thailand,want to create books by using iBook author but from what i've know iBook only support one font for THAI language, is it true or not.
Also does iBooks author support modifed thai font from the internet?
Last one, can I use .ibooks for limited usage not for public?
Thank you for your answer

The iPad only has one Thai font, Thonburi, and you cannot embed other fonts using iBook Author. Here is some info about using other apps
http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/2011/04/embedding-fonts-in-epub-ipad-iphone-an d.html

Is it possible to add a font to existing ibooks?

My Daughter is dyslexic and I would like to add this open source font to iBooks (it is designed to be easier to read for dyslexics) http://www.dafont.com/open-dyslexic.font

Sorry it cannot be done. Downloading outside of iTunes is not allowed due to iPhone security.
Send your request here
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

IBooks and obfuscated fonts

So now I have found out that I can't sideload my epub with embedded fonts to iBooks to review how it looks because all obfuscated fonts are ignored by iBooks.
But someone in this forum told me that I could just replace the fonts with the original fonts.
That would probably work for most people because ttf aren't that big. But I can't do that because my most important font is a customized Chinese font which is much too large for embedding.
And I guess I can't extract only the characters that is used, because no program will do that for me without scrambling the font.
My question is: Is there any way I can make iBooks accept my fonts that are generated and obfuscated by InDesign? I want my e-book to be readable on iBooks also.

Oh sorry - I meant to write Kindle for iPad.
Yes, I have no solution yet.
I can't replace the obfuscated fonts because that means embedding the entire Chinese font, and it is much too big to embed.
I have even changed all my special characters to svg files - but that is a poor solution too because I can't find a way to make them scale uniformly on different platforms.

Fonts for comercial use?

Hello!
I would like to ask if the fonts on iBooks Author are available for not-personal, not-private use without involving any extra costs. That is why its called a book, right? Because you share it with others.
uses: from books to fairytails to comic to whatever
Thanks in advance ,
Fotinos

fotinos wrote:
these fonts come with iBooks Author, no?
The fonts belong to the OS, not the app. Here is the OS passage:
E. Fonts. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, you may use the fonts included with the Apple Software to display and print content while running the Apple Software; however, you may only embed fonts in content if that is permitted by the embedding restrictions accompanying the font in question. These embedding restrictions can be found in the Font Book/Preview/Show Font Info panel.
Does that answer your question? (iBooks Author cannot embed fonts, except via export to PDF format)

Mixed fonts when exporting ePub file from InDesign

I am an ePubs newbie and have been watching some of the training videos on Lynda.com and tried creating my first ePub document today.
I am having problems with mixed fonts when exporting the file and viewing on iBooks on an iPhone.
I have a document with paragraphs of text to be in a regular weight and certain words within the paragraphs are to be picked out in bold. So I've used a Paragraph Style for the main text and then used a Character Style to pick out the bold words. Simple enough!!
On export I am not embedding any fonts as I have unchecked that option on the export dailaogue. I have used the same font family in InDesign, but I cannot work out why I am getting both Serif and Sans Serif fonts displaying when viewing it on the iPhone. The main body appears in the Sans Serif font, but I have the bold character styles, subheads and even the numbers in the numbered lists are all displaying in a Serif Font.
In iBooks I can change the display font (I have the choices: Georgia, Iowan, Palatino, Seravek and Times New Roman) and this affects the fonts which are displaying as Serif, but the main body font remains constant as a Sans Serif (looks like Helvetica).
I would ideally like all the fonts in the document to display as Sans Serif with certain words, plus the headings and subheadings to be in the bold weight version of the same font family.
I've tried this in CS5.5 and CS6 with the same results.
Can anyone offer any suggestions please.

Hi Steve,
Yes, you are correct. It is Anne-Marie Concepcion's videos that I've been watching.
I understand what you are saying about testing in other readers and I will be looking into that further. However our main task is to get some of our client's manuals and documents into a digital version that can be read on Apple devices, as these are what are being used by their sales force.
We have already produced some documents for use on the iPad and have used iBooks Author for that with some success. They have now asked about getting something onto iPhones, so we are now looking into the ePub format to do that. I realise that ePubs can also be used on iPads, but we would still be pushing the iBooks Author files for use on iPads as there is more interactive widgets that can be included. But the main ePub reader that will be used is going to be iBooks, so we are looking to get something to work in that App. Other formats may follow, but we are starting with getting something to work on iBooks first.
I have tried viewing the file in Adobe Digital Editions as you have suggested and have to say that this displays the file in a way that is certainly more appealing, as the fonts are at least consistent. However, I understand from Anne-Marie's videos that ADE is rather basic and is only intended as a rough proofing device. Which is why I transferred my ePub to my iPhone and iPad to view in iBooks.
As I have mentioned, I am a total ePub newbie. I come from a mainly print background and my knowledge of CSS and HTML is very basic. I have an understanding of the concepts, but I would always rely on developers to produce websites that I may have designed.
You seem to be implying that it may be in iBooks where the issues lie and from viewing the file in ADE this would certainly look that way. So I am simply trying to establish what I would need to do to make it work in iBooks in a more satisfactory way.
I have included some screen grabs below to illustrate my problems...
ePub viewing in ADE
If it looked like this on the iPhone I would be relatively happy!!!
ePub on iPhone
The main body copy is displaying in a sans serif font (Helvetica?) yet the heading, subheadings, numbers of the numbered lists, address, URL and legal line are all displaying as a serif font. All the style sheets are assigned to the same font family in InDesign (Helvetica). I have managed to get the bold text to appear in the sans serif font, by mapping the character style to the "strong" tag in the Export Tagging dialogue. All other paragraph styles are left as "Automatic".
I can change the font in iBooks and this affects the displaying of all styles apart from the main body, which stays consistently in the "Helvetica" font.
iPhone Fonts
iPad Fonts
On the iPad I'm also getting some elements coming in justified which looks awfull (see the main heading above). This image also shows how changing to an alternative font changes the heading and subheadings, but does not affect the main body!!!
Any suggestions???
Thanks

How to change font size for email sent

Email sent from my 4th generation iPod Touch appears with a tiny font ( 4pt.) on computers screens and printouts. Is there a way to change this on the iPod Touch? I have not been able to make the font larger in Mail on MBA. I am able to adjust font size of email form iPod Touch on Win 7.
Thanks

Hi, I just tried a few of the other suggestoions on related threads. Adjusting the font in the iPod only enlarges font on screen of iDevice. I set it back to Medium. That was OK.
In Mail on MBA command + enlarges font on screen only. Printout is still very small.
Thsi\\is seems to be something related to Mail not the iPod. Email does appear in normal size font on iBook running Panther, XP, Win 7 units. Printouts are normal size too.
Thanks again for your help. Being able to make the font larger on the MBA screen is good.

Ibooks is unable to show real page numbers of books.

This is a limiting factor of using ibooks for research, school purposes, referencing, technical books. Currently page numbers scale depending on font size, iBooks does not use original paperback page numbers. I have just bought a book from the apple store and it is a technical book where I need to jump to cetain pages. I am also a university student and our lecturer gives us pages 100 - 150 to read however I am not able to follow the readings because this function is not built into ibooks. I have contacted Apple support and they have confirmed this function is currently missing, is there any ETA on when this function maybe integrated. This is a very important if ibooks is to be used to read books for any type of research or school purposes, and pretty much a deal breaker for me as I need to re-purchase a paperback version now. I know Kindle supports this function and has been doing so since 2011.
Kind regards
Rowie.

Rowie87 wrote:
is there any ETA on when this function maybe integrated.
Nobody in these forums has any info on if or when some feature you want might be added by Apple, but you can ask for it via
http://www.apple.com/feedback

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