07-30-2010, 11:27 AM | #346 |
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@meem: None. But if you happen to know a good & complete Latin+Arabic/Hebrew free font family, I'll happily convert/package it .
@Balerion: Yeah, I may not have been very clear in my answer ^^. What I meant is that it's doable in this very specific case (override Sans_BoldItalic), because it's used almost nowhere else except for displaying the Collections, so you're not 'messing up' part of the styling in your books or the Kindle UI. So, you can safely override *only* Sans_BoldItalic, but you can override it with *whatever* font you like, not necessarily Sans_Bold or Sans_Regular (for example, if wanted to make the books title & authors in the Home screens non bold, that wouldn't be so nice, you'd have to sacrifice the Bold styling in your books, because the font used is Serif_Bold, but it's the font also used to display bold styling in your books/dictionaries). Last edited by NiLuJe; 07-30-2010 at 11:30 AM. |
07-30-2010, 01:42 PM | #347 |
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The main problem for Arabic, Hebrew, Parsian, Thai and Urdu is those languages needs RTL (Right to Left) support, in regular Linux it's done with fribidi (Unicode BiDirectional algorithm library).
So, can anyone help about this ? |
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Is there a legacy way of displaying Arabic script on computers without RTL support?
Because hacking up fribidi support is probably not gonna happen... ^^ Last edited by NiLuJe; 07-30-2010 at 04:17 PM. |
07-30-2010, 04:01 PM | #349 |
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I have a small and simple script before to support Arabic in Xfree86 or Xorg with KDE 3 if Arabic or Unicode fonts installed on the system.
I know this will not work here but maybe it gives someone any idea.. PHP Code:
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07-30-2010, 04:13 PM | #350 |
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That's just setting up the locales, vfat charsets & keyboard mapping .
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07-30-2010, 05:20 PM | #351 |
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Yes, as I wrotee above:
I know this will not work here but maybe it gives someone any idea. |
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I have a Kindle 2 International. I just upgraded the software to version 2.5.4. I just want to install the screensaver heck. I followed the instruction and copied the bin file to the root, as well as the linkss folder.
However, after I "Update" the Kindle, it failed during the updating process. It has U007 on the bottom left hand corner. What have I done wrong? |
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You probably didn't apply the jailbreak hack first.
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BTW, at first I got errors due to missing /mnt/us/usbnet/bin/usbstorage, even though I thought I had the latest version, but when I searched I found that this problem was already reported and wasfixed, so I re-downloaded the same file and it worked. Apparently, it was fixed without a version bump, so I thought I had the latest. I guess you just forgot to bump up the version. |
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You don't need the `usbQa command anymore. Appart from that, never tried this on Windows, so no idea how Windows handles this, sorry .
And yeah, it was updated without a bump, because there wasn't really any functionnality enhancements, just a leftover I forgot to remove in the install script . |
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Fonts in PDFs
Great job with the font hack!
As someone who has bought Kindle DXi mainly for reading PDF articles, magazines and books I was disappointed in the low contrast of the text in PDFs. Essentially it's gray on a light-gray background. As a solution I tried with the font hack. I tried default font pack and Droid Sans font pack. Whereas fonts in other places have changed, in PDFs the fonts are still the same - certain serif types. If I could make them bold it would already be much better. Does anyone have experience with this? |
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Most PDFs embed a subset of the font they use. AFAIK, we can't override that on the Kindle to make them use the system's fonts, sorry .
If you can modify the source PDF, you might want to try to recreating it without embedded fonts (if that's even possible, I'm not that familiar with the PDF specs). |
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NiLuJe, thanks a lot for your work. Your font package made my Kindle experience much better. I would like to contribute my personal favourite font package, that's not currently uploaded to your page:
http://rapidshare.com/files/410832073/DroidStyles.zip The first one is merely a collection of droid fonts with styles, that supports cyrillic characters. The second one is my favourite, where the regular font is replaced with the bold one. I use it with text size 3. Again, much appreciate your work. |
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