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Ebooks reader not capturing embedded font for epub file

I have a problem in my epub reader, it displays all content correctly but it's not capturing the embedded font in the CSS file.

When I run the same file on other readers the embedded font is displayed but when I run the html file on one of the browsers like Firefox it shows the same result as my app and it doesn't display the embedded font.

Here is a sample html content:

<html  dir="rtl"   xml:lang="ar"   lang="ar"  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:epub="http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=1332,height=794" />
        <title>the-title-3</title>
        <link href="css/idGeneratedStyles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    </head>
    <body id="the-title-3" lang="en-GB" xml:lang="en-GB" style="width:1332px;height:794px">
        <div id="_idContainer003">
            <img class="_idGenObjectAttribute-1 _idGenObjectAttribute-2" src="image/inner_cover_and_credits_page.jpg" alt="" />
        </div>
        <div id="_idContainer004">
            <div style="width:11599.37px;height:2993.39px;position:absolute;top:0px;left:0px;-webkit-transform-origin: 0% 0%; -webkit-transform: translate(0px,3.93px) rotate(0deg) scale(0.05);transform-origin: 0% 0%; transform: translate(0px,3.93px) rotate(0deg) scale(0.05);">
                <p class="Basic-Paragraph ParaOverride-1"><span id="_idTextSpan000" class="CharOverride-1" style="position:absolute;top:13.65px;left:3168.24px;">الجملة الرئيسية في النص </span></p>
                <p class="Basic-Paragraph ParaOverride-1"><span id="_idTextSpan001" class="CharOverride-1" style="position:absolute;top:733.65px;left:831.71px;">&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;الكاتبة</span></p>
            </div>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

And this is it's corresponding css file:

@font-face {
    font-family:"Futura Lt BT";
    font-style:normal;
    font-weight:normal;
    src : url("../font/FuturaBT-Light.TTF") format('truetype');
}
@font-face {
    font-family:"GE SS Text Light";
    font-style:normal;
    font-weight:300;
    src : url("../font/GESSTextLight-Light.otf") format('opentype');
}
@font-face {
    font-family:"GE SS Text Medium";
    font-style:normal;
    font-weight:500;
    src : url("../font/GESSTextMedium-Medium.otf") format('opentype');
}
@font-face {
    font-family:"Simplified Arabic";
    font-style:normal;
    font-weight:bold;
    src : url("../font/SimplifiedArabic-Bold.ttf") format('truetype');
}

body, div, dl, dt, dd, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, pre, code, blockquote         {
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
    border-width:0;
    text-rendering:optimizeSpeed;
}
div.Basic-Text-Frame {
    border-style:solid;
}
p.ParaOverride-1 {
    line-height:1;
    white-space:nowrap;
}
span.CharOverride-1 {
    color:#000000;
    font-family:"GE SS Text Medium", sans-serif;
    font-size:420px;
    font-style:normal;
    font-weight:500;
}

Here is a screenshot of the file layout:

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To load the content of the html in the UIWebView:

[readingWebView loadHTMLString:contents baseURL:baseURL];

The only difference I can find between the submitted file on the other reader and the one I use in my application is that I submit a file of format .epub to the other reader like iBooks while I use the same file with extension .zip on my application. But I'm not sure if this is related. To display the content of the html files in the epub I use the UIWebView.

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coder Avatar asked May 21 '18 08:05

coder


1 Answers

Not all the fonts are suitable for web display. You can check your font here. Notice, that some fonts have active icons of web, screen or mobile, and some don't. Use those fonts which are designed for web and screen simultaneously. https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/recent

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Natalia Abelian Avatar answered Sep 27 '22 18:09

Natalia Abelian