iBooks text rendering - eeeeeew

[DarwinOSX]

Well.. Whats your thought on this?

You are making judgements from a...screenshot?

 

[eskalation.dk]

You are making judgements from a...screenshot?

Yes. One of Apples own screenshots. The one in the App store. If it could be avoided, it would have been.

 

[ThatsMeRight]

Dude! You really aren't up to date, are you?
You actually can change the font, it was mentioned in several reviews and I believe also on Apple's website.

 

[GregGebhardt]

I gave up when you used "eeeeeew"

 

[eskalation.dk]

Dude! You really aren't up to date, are you?
You actually can change the font, it was mentioned in several reviews and I believe also on Apple's website.

Well, i am, read what i write. What i am saying is that the designer cant specify a custom font. The only fonts available are the ones present on the ipad. If the designer wants to specify a font other than one of those, its just bad luck, right?

I've had some books for the Kindle where the attempts to insert graphics were awful. In some cases I couldn't actually figure out what the image was supposed to be had it not been referenced in the text.

If you're going to have issues I'd go with how do you cite an electronic source such as this when there is no real page numbering. Pagination is affected by type size. Kindle has the nebulous number reference displayed as a large multi-digit range. Then you run into the same book displaying differently on any particular device. How is citation supposed to work?

Orwell, George. "1984" Macmillan: Kindle Edition 11205-11984, 2005

Hehe, sad that they don't just use the digital files, i mean, nearly all books must exist in a digital format somewhere today

Hahaha, i see your problem about citiation! At first is was thinking line numbers could do the trick, but then.. wait, no! But maybe paragraph number? Of cause the app had to include a way of counting these, but that could be done Then it would be something like

Orwell, George. "1984" Macmillan: Kindle Edition ch. 4 p. 7-13, 2005

Who knew the iPad would have trouble with periods?

Ba dum ching!

Hehehehehehe

 

[eskalation.dk]

Sorry, i was posting consecutively, see above thread

 

[*LTD*]

I *hate* hyphenation in my books, so sounds good to me.

Why would you want hyphenation, so the margins look prettier? From a design point of view I think artificially cracking words in half is a lazy approach and looks worse than imperfect margins.

So there aren't huge rivers of white space running through justified text.

I have to say I agree with the OP. Typography might not be that important to you, but when you read material that has been typeset properly you'll experience the difference.

 

[travishill]

I'd appreciate some justification/hyphenation options myself. I'd bet at some point we get those...

 

[str1f3]

So because my dislike of hyphenation in almost all instances is opposite of the OP's, I'm being a fanboy and not objective?

It ticks me off to no end that Pages insists on having Hyphenation on by default and I need to turn it off for every document. That's an Apple designed product.

All of the posts above seemed fine to me -- people were being objective. Objectively applying their own point of view which may or may not agree with yours.

The previous posts were criticizing the poster on valid points being made. Points that were also made by John Gruber. Regardless of how you feel about hyphenation there are other flaws that also exist within the iBooks app. These can be fixed over time but anyone who does appreciate these things will notice it.

 

[marksman]

OP,

I beg of you to rephrase your post and complaint in English, preferably American English.

'cause I ain't git no idear what yew talkin' 'bout.

Marks-man

ps. I can not believe anyone is begging for hyphenation. WTH.

 

[marksman]

So there aren't huge rivers of white space running through justified text.

I have to say I agree with the OP. Typography might not be that important to you, but when you read material that has been typeset properly you'll experience the difference.

Yeah and excessive hyphenation, or any hyphenation for that matter does not improve a reading experience.

 

[hEADcRASH]

The font(s) rendering really is terrible.

The first book I picked up, "Getting Things Done," is kerned all wrong.

With all of the fonts.

"WELCOME TO Agold mine of insights..." the book (intro) begins...

"..to be effectivelydoing while you are delightfullybeing, in..." the intro continues...

Seriously, it's more that just ugly looking, it's just plain wrong looking.

I hope the (soon-to-be-released-I'm-sure) update fixes it. It's bad .. really bad.

 

[cdinca]

Orphans and widows are concerns in
brochures, ads, other advertising collateral...not books.

In my 15 years on the job, clients reject hyphenation more than not. We just care more about shapes than most people.

 

[Stetrain]

I agree that the newspaper style justification is a bit odd. With or without hyphenation I would expect a book-style reading experience to be left justified only.

With all of the effort to make it look and feel like a real book, you would think that they would justify it like one (Or at least offer options, maybe in an update?).