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I've written the mini-patch, but it seems like Kobo have just released a new upgrade, 4.18. I wasn't expecting that.
![]() I'm going to need to put this on hold until I've made sure all the patches I'm responsible for will work. I'll return when that's finished. In the meantime, it did occur to me that I should ask what format most of your books are. Are they epub/kepub? I seem to recall reading that a lot of Chinese readers prefer PDF. If they are all PDF then that might give difficulty regarding what I said in post #2. As long as you have access to at least one epub/kepub on the test Kobo we should be OK. |
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@jackie_w, tried your patch on 4.17.13694. First of all, many thanks! Looks a heck of a lot better than the default display. Second, some observations. For the record, contrary to the post #2, I didn't have to lift a finger to get the right fonts to show up in the GUI, both on the first boot after the patch was applied and after a subsequent power off/power on. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance — I assume once the 4.18 patches are ready. Also I've only checked the Books, Authors & Collections, if there are additional views you want me to check out please let me know.
Once again, thanks a bunch for your awesome work! |
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![]() Regarding the "didn't have to lift a finger" that's very welcome news, but I'm not yet 100% convinced it would be that easy for any old font. If you have some free time, please would you try the same trick with these font scenarios and report back:
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... meanwhile the user who had managed to "fool" Kobo by internally renaming their sideloaded font-of-choice to Georgia has managed the same trick with Avenir. Who would have thought that encryption/obfuscation of system fonts doesn't really matter.
I need time to do some testing of my own. If it turns out to be easy and reliable then maybe this is a better way forward than using kobopatch. I'm not yet convinced that the above would work for CJK fonts. |
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@jackie_w, funny you should mention "non-improved" fonts. Looking into the 4.17 release archive I noticed that the sizes of the fonts I've been "improving" have shot up, so I thought maybe Kobo has added those glyphs themselves — and they did, so no need to improve those anymore! So I renamed my fonts directory to hide all added and "improved" fonts, powered off/powered on and it still worked as desired. I'll test tonight with Bookerly/Literata and report back. Might even track down a non-monospace sans-serif font just in case
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Played some more. Using "foreign" fonts certainly gets things a lot more muddy with the need for the post #2 more apparent. If I use both foreign fonts I definitely need to load the font list first. It seems that if one of them is built-in then there's a chance it'll load both but maybe my eyes have just started to deceive me after all the changes. But with both fonts set to built-in it remained rock solid picking them up right off the bat.
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I was tested next patch: Code:
Custom new header/footer font: yes Custom GUI system fonts beta1: yes Second patch affected home screen and book list. I'm not found where it used yet. But it not needed for Russian language. Because we haven't translated to Russian UI, and all language sensitive text use Georgia. Now I have 2 place, where text looks ugly. 1. When I open menu in reading mode I see Back to home in top of menu and Chapter name on bottom. And bottom text has additional spaces. 2. Progress of reading (page 1 of 50) in header and footer. All other can be corrected by other patches. |
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@jackie_w, I was wrong about one built-in font being enough. Have to pick both built-in ones to make the patch work without post #2. I'll also have to test shadowing the built-in fonts more thoroughly as it is now clear that using built-in Amasis works fine for Cyrillic anyway and I wouldn't be able to tell that it picked the shadow copy vs the original.
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As such, I can probably create a patch for you but I'm not sure it would be used by enough people to warrant including it in the standard pack. If that assumption is clearly wrong (based on repeated requests in the main kobopatch threads) then obviously I'll add it to the standard pack. I'll post a beta for you when I've got a bit more time. Quote:
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Here's a patch targeted at locale "zh-TW" Book list Book title (and one other unknown header, but it shouldn't matter for our purposes). Quote:
Put it in nickel.yaml (or wherever you keep your other custom nickel patches). Custom GUI Chinese TW Book title - beta2 Spoiler:
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Just mark cyrillic in settings options for downloads. |
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