Inconsistent word-spacing across platforms (font metrics?)

[danielweck]

From Talha Yalta [email protected]:

Still, as can be seen in the attached file, Readium has (I think) word
spacing problems. This is a serious issue because the looks of the
fixed-layout book can be seriously affected by it, resulting in text
cutoff etc.

After testing the attached file with Azardi, Readium in Windows 7 and
Readium in Snow Leopard; it seems to me that
word spacing in Readium (Win) < Azardi < Readium (OSX)

The difference is probably small but it is enough to shift a single
word to the next line. These shifts can in turn result in significant
changes to the text layout, even in not-too-long paragraphs.

Bugzilla:
https://app.devzing.com/Readium/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71

[JayPanoz]

Re-checking R1-related issues for ReadiumCSS and I would have loved to give it a look but the screenshots are probably lost, aren’t they?

The difference is probably small but it is enough to shift a single word to the next line. These shifts can in turn result in significant changes to the text layout, even in not-too-long paragraphs.

From this I can only assume that’s just to be expected.

Layout/H&J/spacing can vary greatly across browsers, platforms, etc. so it’s pretty much impossible to get exactly the same result everywhere. I know it’s been a constant complaint in fixed-layout but that’s an idiosyncrasy of the web platform – InDesign even tried to fight that by treating FXL as PDF but created an unsolvable issue in doing so, unless they completely re-architecture their output…

[danielweck]

Yep, let's close this totally obsolete issue.