Adding stock fonts?

[pickyaxe]

Languages that have glyphs that are not present in stock fonts will be displayed as squares.

It is possible to fix this issue by adding fonts in the usual way, in the /fonts/ folder on the root of the user-visible internal kobo storage. This works, but these fonts are only loaded once an ebook/article is viewed. Therefore every time the device is rebooted all file names with those unsupported glyphs are displayed as squares until an ebook/article is launched. So I want to load these files on boot by adding them as system fonts.

I've tried copying the new fonts into what I believe is the fonts stash, /usr/local/Trolltech/QtEmbedded-4.6.2-arm/lib/fonts/ and the fonts are not recognized, so it's probably going by some database file to fetch the file list... anyone figured it out yet?

[GeoffR]

There's a list of font names hard-coded in the firmware that are treated specially:

Amasis
Avenir Next Medium
Caecilia
Delima
Felbridge
Georgia
Gill Sans
Kobo Nickel
Malabar
Rockwell
Times New Roman

TTF fonts with those names can use the advanced font menu for adjusting weight/sharpness (no patch required), even if they are sideloaded.

But which fonts are loaded at boot time might depend on the UI langage selected, perhaps Georgia and Avenir for English, Gothic for Japanese. I don't know how that is done though. It doesn't seem to matter where the fonts are located, just what their names are.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by GeoffR

But which fonts are loaded at boot time might depend on the UI langage selected, perhaps Georgia and Avenir for English, Gothic for Japanese.

Nickel loads on start up these three fonts independent of the UI language. At least this is how it was when I checked the last time.