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I'm not sure what you mean by "this time". Do you refer to the current FW? Anyway, the last FW with "valid" font files was kobo3-upgrade-1.9.17.
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If you extract the fonts from the Kobo supplied images, they appear to be obfuscated in some manner.
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Good we talked about it. I incorrectly remembered that obfuscation started with 2.0.0 (and never had 2.0.4). I even checked yesterday, but evidently mixed up the folders. So there is actually an unobfuscated version of the Japanese fonts. Thank you for this information.
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Hi
A new KoboGlo user from this morning (at long last, they delivered...). Version 2.4.0 of February 2013. My previous device was a PRS-505 which died of overwork three weeks ago after four and a half years of intensive service. As far as the fonts are concerned, I am overall very happy with the KoboGlo offer (Amasis, Avenir, Caecilia, Georgia, Gil Sans, Kobo Nickel, Malabar, Gothic MB101, Ryumin, Open Dyslexic). I will add some other fonts that I will place in a fonts folder as advised. embedded fonts One minus is that I cannot read properly my own EPUB books which make use of embedded fonts, even when I select "Document par défaut" (default doc). I get a lot of strains on the screen. Of course, if I switch to any Kobo "factory" font, it gets better, but I still do not get a correct display of the "Linux Libertine Display" font that I use for titles and dropcaps because it seems that Kobo does not provide a replacement for it. I have read that this is an unresolved Kobo bug and I just can confirm it. The display of my PDF books (published in 6 inches format) with exactly the same embedded fonts and dropcaps, on the other hand is just perfect. I will report later with my other fonts trials (including ttf and otf fonts). semibold I have had the opportunity to open a Kindle set of fonts. I remarked that, contrary to the Kobo set, all the regular fonts were in fact semibold. Of course, they look probably darker on the screen but I consider this not to be needed. I will try to use semibold fonts to replace not regular but bold fonts (and semibold italic to replace bold italic) Last edited by roger64; 03-16-2013 at 07:08 PM. |
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If available choose a font family with a "medium" (thickness 500) font to replace the regular and italic styles. Medium fonts are slightly bigger than regular (400) and thinner than semibold (600). This gives good results. Optical size BTW, the Minion Pro font scales poorly on my KT. Giving awfull looking, uneven letter heights. Replacing Minion Pro with Minion Pro Subhead gives much better scaling results. When modifying fonts, first test which optical font size looks best on your Touch or Glo to get the best results. |
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I love to use the Unifont font available here: http://unifoundry.com/unifont-5.1.20080907.zip (it's free as in freedom) it contains the whoel Unicode set! So you can read everything (Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Turkish, ... whatever) with only one font.
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Re: Code2000, I agree this is much better looking than Unifont, but does Code2000 have bold and italic variants (could only see regular in the download)?
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It's actually ugly but it's free (meaning "libre" not "gratis") and (almost) full Unicode.
![]() Code 2000 font is actually nicer but it's not compatible with free software licenses like GNU GPL or similar. Also the site seems dismissed... http://web.archive.org/web/201101081.../code2000.net/ |
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If I have a font in .ttf or .otf, is there a way I can modify the font to make it appear 2-4pt larger at any given size? I have one that I like but it appears significantly smaller than my other fonts and it's a pain to notch the font size up a couple steps for it then notch it back down for other fonts.
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