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@jackie_w — I'm support summary of @dmapr. It solve all issue with text in russian language books, like:
- footer and header text - footnotes We haven't other issue. After find solution with Avenir font, i'm leave only next patches for my kobo. Code:
overrides: src/nickel.yaml: Dictionary pop-up - increase available text area: yes Remove footer (row3) on new home screen: yes src/libadobe.so.yaml: src/libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml: Increase TOC level indentation and fix extra indentation bug: yes Freedom to advanced fonts control: yes Set KePub hyphenation: yes Allow searches on Extra dictionaries: yes Dictionary text font-family/font-size/line-height: yes src/librmsdk.so.1.0.0.yaml: |
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Summary so far ...
This is a summary of where I think we're at with Kobo GUI system fonts:
Part 1: - "fooling" the Kobo into using different physical font files A "better Avenir Next" solves a problem for Cyrillic users but not necessarily, for example, for Vietnamese users, and definitely not for those who require CJK fonts. If a better Avenir Next does not solve the problem for your language it's probably not dodgy to say that any font the user has legal access to can be renamed using JSWolf's instructions in post #57.
N.B.: *** Update for firmware 4.21.15015+ *** Once the renaming trick is complete, the info in post #2 will be required to force the Kobo to load all its fonts after a re-boot. In fw 4.21.15015 @Semwize discovered (post #91) that it is now possible to completely overwrite the default Georgia and Avenir system GUI font files rather than sideloading copies to /fonts. See post #96 for some sample code you can use in kobopatch to copy your custom fonts into the main firmware font directory. If you do this it will no longer be necessary to perform the shenanigans in post #2 after every re-boot. Part 2: - using kobopatch to change Kobo nickel CSS for font-family. N.B. Unfortunately, in fw 4.32.19501, Kobo made major changes to font handling. A side effect seems to be that any kobopatching of font-family is so limited as to be no longer worthwhile for any practical purposes. For those who are comfortable using kobopatch but not a font editor ... If the only part of the Kobo GUI you really need to improve is the My Books book lists then
There are also patches in the kobopatch standard pack which can customise font-family in other parts of the GUI, e.g.
[** My personal experience with FontForge, on Windows, is that I just hope that I manage to get what I want done before it crashes in a heap.] Last edited by jackie_w; 04-21-2022 at 12:25 PM. Reason: updated for fw 4.32.19501 |
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I'm only asking for info. My own chances of ever reading anything in Russian are about zero. Last edited by jackie_w; 10-03-2019 at 01:49 PM. |
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It's not actually illegal. But B&N no longer make the nook firmware available to download manually. It's no different then other threads saying Bookerly can be had from a new enough Kindle firmware. What might be a problem is giving specific instructions on how to extract the fonts.
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Recent (> last 6 months) fontforge releases should be significantly more robust than they used to
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What might work is the free version of Type Light. It's available for Windows and OS X. https://www.cr8software.net/type.html#thumb Last edited by JSWolf; 10-03-2019 at 02:05 PM. |
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I added a Part 2 to my summary for those who can't face using a font editor. To be fair to FontForge, it's hard to see how you can make a font editor really user-friendly. It's a complex subject.
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But the free Type Light will let you rename fonts and it is stable and a lot easier to use.
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@jackie_w: Nah ^^. But development picked up the pace recently, and a lot of cruft was taken care of, so I just thought it was worth mentioning
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Does FontForge still crash on Windows or has it been fixed so it no longer crashes? Does it have a proper file requester under Windows? The last time I tried FF, the file requester was awful.
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