Top Serif Fonts for Document Readability in Office, Print, E-Books & PDF Formats

All magazines and official printouts are usually made in Arial font.
Articles for conferences or for publication go through my hands more than once, and they've always called for Arial.

kuferekczasu wrote:

... they say that "serif" fonts are needed ... this is a book.

Ultimately, it should be in the form of an e-book, as .pdf.

I don't think there is a worse format for an e-book than pdf.
If this pdf has to be, I suggest you attach the ebook in epub and mobi format. An additional advantage is that the user can choose the font that suits him in the reader:

You can get good text quality with the Latin Modern family.

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1. What free or paid program saves in epub or mobi format?
2. What program can save a book in the form of an e-book in a different format?

Caliber is a great harvester: http://calibre-ebook.com/download - converts "everything to everything", although of course there may be problems with converting pdf files containing Polish characters, but here there is probably no program that does it flawlessly.
On the other hand, Sigil: Link is dedicated to EPUB and it does it sensational.

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They write that you need to add every new e-book font to each reader, cannot it be permanently implemented in the document for all available readers?

The readers already have fonts (that's good), but others are imported from the device - individually. The user can add a different font in his reader. What it looks like in all factors / similarities and differences / I do not know.

I do not see an article directly about pdf disadvantages in readers and problems with conversion so quickly, but between lines:
- First link
- Second link

Recent versions of Caliber allow you to convert directly from docx.


The recommendations so far have been as follows:
1. work on your doc / docx file, and when you're done
2. save the file as filtered html (older versions of Word can do that too).
3. Import the html file into Caliber.

If there are headings in the document, Caliber can create a table of contents convenient for the reader (s). I don't know how all readers handle it, but two levels of the table of contents should adopt (K. Paperwhite for sure).



Additional information about Caliber about doc / docx, as well as converting from pdf (and why this is a thankless job) can be found at: Link
and a bit lower Link .

and finally a small sample (a screenshot from the reader), but I make a reservation right away - every reader has a chance for other solutions (or lack of them), so it's better to be careful with other fonts:

kuferekczasu wrote:

Why are there so many of these free programs?

Don't be offended, but I haven't seen a sillier question yet. Write to the authors of the programs and ask them about it.

kuferekczasu wrote:

Why are there so many of these free programs?
Are there as many types of readers?

I think that in any kind of universal activity there is a whole range of different programs "for the same purpose". On the other hand: if there are so many of them, then probably none of them are perfect ...

There are a lot of readers, but if you start looking for something seriously, there will only be a few left.

kuferekczasu wrote:

because they write that there is no point in reading book scans on a 6-inch screen

And ... this is completely different. A scan is an image. It has certain dimensions and you must take it as it is. You will not change the typeface, you will not adjust the font size to the screen size, because you simply have a picture of a page in the book. Some pdf files are like "read" in the reader, which is terrible. Well, unless you are eagle-eyed and can see an A4 page of text on a 6-inch screen.

kuferekczasu wrote:

I don't want to convert several hundred pages of text for free

The conversion makes sense, because the text retains its properties (bold, italics, subsequent paragraphs, text indentation, etc.) and you have the option of other modifications (line spacing, margins, changes in font size and possibly its typeface), i.e. those factors that affect the "good appearance" "text. The text "spills" on the reader screen from edge to edge and it is as it should be, what cannot be said about pdf in the reader.

If it is finally going to be converted to * .pdf, then I suggest you switch to writing in LaTeX ... / eg. using the LyX editor /