Aura HD Kindle Bookerly font problem with italics

[drjd]

Originally Posted by freekobo

PM SENT with download for it.

Great! Thank you very much for the help!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by drjd

I extracted this font from firmware update 5.8.2 (Kindle 8th Gen / and Oasis too) but found the font version 1.000 only.

1.0 is the first version of Bookerly and that is for LCD screens.

What is the location in the Kindle firmware you are getting Bookerly?

[drjd]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

1.0 is the first version of Bookerly and that is for LCD screens.

What is the location in the Kindle firmware you are getting Bookerly?

I downloaded the firmware from this location:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/G7G_Firmwar...asis_5.8.2.bin

[SteveK]

I have a general fonts-related question. If a font family has multiple "faces", do I need to load each one? I assume font files are fairly small, but I don't want to have multiple unnecessary files on my Kobo. For example, the Rockwell font shown in a teleread article today (about loading fonts) looked quite readable, but it seemed to have about a dozen variations. Does each one need to be loaded, and if so would it add a long list of fonts in the font selector file, or only one name for the font "family"?

Thanks in advance for any information.

Steve

[sherman]

Originally Posted by SteveK

I have a general fonts-related question. If a font family has multiple "faces", do I need to load each one? I assume font files are fairly small, but I don't want to have multiple unnecessary files on my Kobo. For example, the Rockwell font shown in a teleread article today (about loading fonts) looked quite readable, but it seemed to have about a dozen variations. Does each one need to be loaded, and if so would it add a long list of fonts in the font selector file, or only one name for the font "family"?

Thanks in advance for any information.

Steve

Basically for each font, you need (when available) the font files for regular, bold, italic, bold italic. There may also be several variations of the same font, such as a small-caps, condensed, heavy etc. For body text, you would normally want the normal variant of the font, which is usually just the name of the font.

So basically, four files per font is what I'm trying to say.

[Atmos4]

The only thing that worked for me was Kyl's tip.

I named the files as Bookerly.ttf (Regular), Bookerlyb.ttf (Bold), Bookerlyi.ttf (Italic) and Bookerlyz.ttf (BoldItalic). The same trick worked with Amazon Ember which was showing the Bold style for Regular until I used the same naming scheme.

Note that you need to reboot the Kobo after renaming if you were using the font previously or at least switch to a previously unused font size, because the Kobo caches the generated pages.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Atmos4

Note that you need to reboot the Kobo after renaming if you were using the font previously or at least switch to a previously unused font size, because the Kobo caches the generated pages.

I really doubt that the Kobo firmware is caching any generated pages of books. More likely, it is caching the last font use and changing the font file doesn't trigger the cache being reloaded.

[coalescent]

First time poster here--I've been lurking for some time and recently made the jump from the kindle ecosystem to kobo.

I want to thank flowoeB for the detailed and accurate instructions. This is the only method that successfully corrected italics showing as bold italics using Bookerly and kePubs books. It was driving me a bit mad. Thank you!

Originally Posted by flowoeB

after checking the font files and finding them to have ok meta data (posting the same thing over and over again does not help anybody serge... ) i found this working for me and my H2O:

.extracted bookerly and ember from the oasis update file (explained in a earlyer post in this thread)
.renamed the files as follows:

Bookerly-Regular -> Bookerly-a.ttf
Bookerly-Italic -> Bookerly-b.ttf
Bookerly-Bold -> Bookerly-c.ttf
Bookerly-BoldItalic -> Bookerly-d.ttf

Amazon-Ember-Regular -> Amazon-Ember-a.ttf
Amazon-Ember-Italic-> Amazon-Ember-b.ttf
Amazon-Ember-Bold -> Bookerly-c.ttf
Amazon-Ember-BoldItalic -> Amazon-Ember-d.ttf

.put the files into my font folder on the H2O
.disconnected and turned the H2O off completely (long holding the power button)
.restarting and now everything works as it should work...

sorry for my bad english - hope this helps...

PS:
works on my Glo HD too - files used for testing are .kepub.epub and .epub generated with calibre

[deleted2]

Originally Posted by coalescent

First time poster here--I've been lurking for some time and recently made the jump from the kindle ecosystem to kobo.

I want to thank flowoeB for the detailed and accurate instructions. This is the only method that successfully corrected italics showing as bold italics using Bookerly and kePubs books. It was driving me a bit mad. Thank you!

Well, thanks for pointing that old post. I had problems with the Amazon-Ember font on my Clara HD. It appeared bold only. Now, with renaming it, it looks fine.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by coalescent

First time poster here--I've been lurking for some time and recently made the jump from the kindle ecosystem to kobo.

I want to thank flowoeB for the detailed and accurate instructions. This is the only method that successfully corrected italics showing as bold italics using Bookerly and kePubs books. It was driving me a bit mad. Thank you!

Welcome to MobileRead

I must say I'm amazed to hear that something as simple as file-renaming to use suffixes -a, -b, -c, -d works. However, I'm not going to argue with you if you've tested it and it's working.

For the record, my posts #2 and #9 in this thread are what has always worked for me. So, if you ever find any font where simple renaming doesn't work, to correct bold/italic, then try this.

[coalescent]

Thank you for the welcome!

I was dubious as well. I went to the effort to install FontForge first, but the instructions I originally found here mostly discussed ensuring the filename matched the internal font name. In the case of the files I had, they already matched exactly--yet I still had the problem with italics showing as bold italics.

It was annoying me enough that I went ahead and tried the file renaming suggestion from flowoeB. After a restart of the kobo, it worked! So I thought I would both thank flowoeB and share my success here.