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06-06-2018, 11:55 AM | #1 |
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Kindle Firmware update 5.9.6 - Hell has frozen over (custom fonts)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...deId=200529680
What’s new: Read Arabic language books: Your Kindle e-reader now supports Arabic language books. Choose one from a selection of thousands on the Kindle store and enjoy reading Arabic content. Read with your own fonts: You can now install your favorite fonts on your Kindle and choose one of them from the Display Settings (Aa) menu to read your eBooks. Connect your Kindle to a computer and refer to the “Read Me” file in the “fonts” folder for more information. Last edited by rioachim; 06-15-2018 at 02:00 PM. Reason: News |
06-06-2018, 01:09 PM | #2 | |
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Here is the English part of the readme file from the fonts folder:
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06-06-2018, 01:48 PM | #3 |
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I quite like Bookerly, but I guess the feature is nice for all you tinkerers. Never really looked at the font that much, other than adjusting size/boldness for clarity.
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06-06-2018, 03:35 PM | #4 |
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Cool! Even the boldness setting works for custom fonts. All we need are new line heights to better compensate for differences in certain fonts. (and fix the azw3 cover bug!!!)
If these are the features that we're getting in x.x.x releases I'm really looking forward to 6.0.0 now Last edited by johnnyb; 06-06-2018 at 03:52 PM. |
06-06-2018, 04:52 PM | #5 |
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From a quick test it appears that the custom fonts work in KF8 (azw3) and KFX formats, but not the in the old MOBI format.
--- I tried to test Arabic support, but so far I get a popup with "The item is not compatible with this device." when I try to select an Arabic language book. I tried to test with the free sample for this book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0774TM745 among others. Last edited by jhowell; 06-06-2018 at 05:08 PM. |
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(Custom fonts didn't work with the AZW3 version of the same book.) |
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06-06-2018, 05:33 PM | #7 | |
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06-06-2018, 05:39 PM | #8 |
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Nice! I never thought this day would come
Worth the update for being able to apply boldness to custom fonts in azw3 and kfx, at least. |
06-06-2018, 06:06 PM | #9 |
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This would be perfect for me if only custom fonts and boldness levels worked with docs too.
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06-06-2018, 06:23 PM | #10 |
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There are other font tweaks too
Bookerly has also been tweaked. It's a little lighter now and feels much more like a real print typeface to me. (Though obviously getting something that really looks like print requires a boost of res from 300dpi to something more like 1200. That's not coming any time soon!)
Bookerly plus a somewhat emboldened Quattrocento for me, I think. I wonder how good the OTF support is? MOAR LIGATURES |
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It looks like the one that it did work for is an .azw3, and the one that it didn't is an .azw. So I guess it's a kf8 vs mobi thing? Shari |
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06-06-2018, 06:42 PM | #12 |
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Right, I don't think the boldness setting works with mobi books.
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06-06-2018, 08:45 PM | #13 | |
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06-06-2018, 09:35 PM | #14 |
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Great news. Thanks.
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06-07-2018, 01:38 AM | #15 |
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so now we need quality fonts pack
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