10-16-2011, 10:54 PM | #1 |
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PRS-T1 & Asian Fonts/Unicode
Now that PRS-T1 has Android as OS, does it support asian fonts on text files/epub files without embedding?
If anyone has PRS-T1, could you possibly test? I've included a text file with some unicode japanese. Thanks http://dl.dropbox.com/u/749647/Test.txt |
10-17-2011, 10:19 AM | #2 |
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I just drag-dropped your TXT file to my PRST1. I'm afraid all I see is a mainly blank page, except for 3 lines which contain a few dots and one line with 2 long dashes.
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10-17-2011, 11:06 AM | #3 |
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Aw, I wonder if I can replace the font once I get it rooted. Since Android should support unicode.
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10-17-2011, 11:41 AM | #4 |
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English epubs with embedded fonts work OK on the T1, but I'm afraid I have no experience with Japanese fonts to try it.
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10-19-2011, 09:37 PM | #5 |
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True, I wouldn't mind it if it was for myself, but this is for parents. So probably not a good idea to ask them to fiddle w/ PC/font embedding to read documents. I'll probably look into finding a Japanese version of the PRS-T1
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10-20-2011, 12:56 AM | #6 |
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The solution is to embed fonts in the ePub. That will work on any Adobe RMSDK powered system and most others as well.
Another solution is to create PDFs that are laid out for T1's screen. You'd then be able to use tategaki (vertical) text layout, which is not supported by ePub2. |
10-29-2011, 01:04 PM | #7 |
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It works fine in the browser of the T1. I am also very interested in this, but haven't had time to test it properly yet. Is this Aozora Bunko format? I hope that after rooting I can use a program to format them properly as well. I'll post again after trying some more, I don't know when I will have time though.
Edit: As reported, it doesn't work in the normal book reading application. Weird that it works in the browser though. SJIS displays garbage and UTF8 is empty. Last edited by sebasdoes; 10-29-2011 at 03:46 PM. |
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I received my new PRS T1 today. But unfortunately, it doesn't display correctly Vietnamese characters, both in epub files and web browser. I've tried to embedded gentium font in epub file using calibre as I used to do with my PRS 600, but it still doesn't work. Please help me!
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I have no experience with any Asian language fonts, but if you want to attach a sample epub with embedded fonts (no copyright material, please) which works on your PRS600 but not on your PRST1, I could have a closer look. |
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Besides, I don't know exactly what you mean by "fully embedded". I'll do some google search to find it out. Thanks again. |
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Fully embedded fonts are described in Method 1 in the post. This is is only way (so far) which works on the PRST1. I have attached a fully embedded version of your test epub below. It reads fine on my PRST1. What you have in your test epub is an example of Method 3 in the post. All 3 methods work in older Sony models PRS505, PRS300/600 and PRSx50. Calibre does not currently have a simple way of automatically fully embedding epub fonts. You can use the Calibre Tweak Epub feature to do it manually. How easy you will find it depends on how comfortable you are manually tweaking epubs. The following is not the 'One True Way' but it works. These are the steps:
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11-05-2011, 06:18 AM | #12 |
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thank you very much jackie_w. I can now read Vietnamese with my T1. Maybe I'm exigent, but the way to fully embedded fonts as you mentioned a bove is quite complicated, and I hope that I could simply embed fonts using calibre on a single click!
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11-12-2011, 03:53 PM | #13 |
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Thanks for the instructions jackie_w.
Unfortunately, I can't them to work in my slightly different scenario: I am trying to embed fonts in the sblgnt-v1.2.epub online here (http://katadrew.com/files/sblgnt/) so as to get polytonic Greek displaying on my Sony PRS-T1. Instead of GenBK I used GenR102 and GenI102, but followed the other directions as closely as possible. The Greek text displays in Calibre, but not as Gentium. It is still gibberish on the PRS-T1. Thanks for any assistance! |
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I tried it and it looked reasonable to me (however as I don't read Greek I'm not the best judge ). There are only 2 font files (Regular and Italic, no Bold or BoldItalic) so you'll need to adjust the css @font-face statements accordingly by pointing Bold to the Regular .ttf and BoldItalic to the Italic .ttf: Code:
@font-face { font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; src: url(fonts/GentiumPlus-R.ttf) } @font-face { font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; src: url(fonts/GentiumPlus-I.ttf) } @font-face { font-family: serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; src: url(fonts/GentiumPlus-R.ttf) } @font-face { font-family: serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; src: url(fonts/GentiumPlus-I.ttf) } Code:
<item href="Styles/fonts/GentiumPlus-R.ttf" id="serifr" media-type="application/x-truetype-font"/> <item href="Styles/fonts/GentiumPlus-I.ttf" id="serifi" media-type="application/x-truetype-font"/> |
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11-13-2011, 04:07 PM | #15 |
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That worked. (I suspect the problem may have been that I didn't include all 4 font face statements.) Anyway, thanks very much Jackie!
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