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How to show Greek and Hebrew fonts when exporting an ePub?

I've got some documents that are mostly in English, but have a handful of Greek and Hebrew words. Is there a way to have these show up in the ePub export? I'm viewing them in iBooks on my iPad, and I need to be able to readjust the font size.

I didn't notice an option for embedding fonts, are there standard fonts that can be used for Greek and Hebrew words that I should be using?

2010 13" MBP, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Feb 3, 2011 10:04 AM

21 replies

Tom Gewecke

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115,970 points

Feb 4, 2011 8:39 AM in response to peripatew

I can't get Hebrew and Greek words to display properly when exporting a Page's document to a ePub file, that I then load on my iPad to open with iBooks.

This should be not problem if you are using Unicode Greek and Hebrew. Are you sure that you are not using some the non-standard Bible study fonts that map these scripts to Latin? Normally if you are creating proper Greek and Hebrew in Pages you must go to system prefs/languge & text/input sources to activate and use the Greek and Hebrew keyboard layouts. Is that what you are doing? After that the font is pretty irrelevant.

If you would like me to have a look, send me a copy of your Pages doc (tom at bluesky dot org).

The iBookstore claims to not support Hebrew, but I think that may be for text entire in that script:

http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2010/12/ibookstore-language-support.html

KOENIG Yvan

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Feb 4, 2011 9:05 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

As I'm curious, I build a sample file in Pages using different fonts and exported it as epub.

I would be interested to learn how it is rendered on an iPad.

Go to my iDisk :
<http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>

Download :
For iWork:dugrec.zip

It contains the Pages original

and the epub file.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 4 février 2011 18:02:37

peripatew Author

Level 1

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Feb 4, 2011 10:01 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Thanks for preparing that ePub. Follow the link to a screenshot of the text on my iPad in iBooks.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/263499/photo.PNG

This is great! Although I'm still confused at how to get the Greek and Hebrew within my Pages document formatted correctly. I have been using specific Greek and Hebrew fonts, but when looking at your included Pages document, the text in Greek is still a "normal" font. What did you do to get the text to display in Greek with the Arial font?

(Thanks again for helping me with this!)

peripatew Author

Level 1

4 points

Feb 4, 2011 10:07 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Woops! I missed that post from @Tom, once I enabled Greek and Hebrew as input sources, I was able to get the results I needed!

The keyboard layout is different that my Greek and Hebrew font, so it's going to take some getting used to for sure, but it works!

KOENIG Yvan

Level 8

41,807 points

Feb 4, 2011 10:11 AM in response to peripatew

I grabbed the characters from the Character Palette.

But Tom Gewecke described the logical scheme : activate the Greek keyboard.

We are no longer in the so called "extended ASCII" era.
We are in the Unicode one.

In every Unicode fonts, Greek characters are supposed to be available as characters $0380…

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 4 février 2011 19:11:40

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

115,970 points

Feb 4, 2011 10:34 AM in response to peripatew

once I enabled Greek and Hebrew as input sources, I was able to get the results I needed!

That's good news. Some other info that may be helpful:

http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/TypingHebrew.html

http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/TypingGreek.html

How to show Greek and Hebrew fonts when exporting an ePub?