Calibre, Astak PP, and foreign languages. Help!

megabadd · 12-10-2009, 11:02 AM

Hi all.

Newcomer here, just got my Astak PP and started using Calibre. I bought the Astak PP because I heard that it had built in foreign language support and I mainly want to use it to read Chinese and Japanese. So, I use Calibre to fetch Chinese and Japanese news sites , but it comes up as ??? for all of my news pulls.

The files are converted to epub but are not displaying correctly. I have updated my firmware, but I'm not sure as to what I should do from here. Converting the files to PDF makes them readable, but I'd rather have them in epub and use the automatic fetching and conversion feature of Calibre. Can anyone help me out?

theducks · 12-10-2009, 11:19 AM

You would best check on this over at Calibre forum.
If the page displays in the Calibre epub viewer, I would guess the fonts are not being included in the EPUB file nor in the same storage device (main or SDcard) as the document.

megabadd · 12-10-2009, 11:25 AM

Thanks. They do appear correctly on my computer. How would I go about adding fonts to my Astak PP?

wallcraft · 12-10-2009, 12:23 PM

Did you install the "Adobe language package for Chinese, Japanese & Korean", from the firmware download page?

theducks · 12-10-2009, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by megabadd

Thanks. They do appear correctly on my computer. How would I go about adding fonts to my Astak PP?

Someone else will have to answer that one.

I never envisioned having to get that far into e-publishing (and reader quirks) , just to be able to read electronic books.

Good luck over at Calibre the group.

megabadd · 12-10-2009, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by wallcraft

Did you install the "Adobe language package for Chinese, Japanese & Korean", from the firmware download page?

Just downloaded, unzipped to root of the EZReader but haven't noticed any changes. Was there something else I was supposed to do?

DaleDe · 12-10-2009, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by megabadd

Just downloaded, unzipped to root of the EZReader but haven't noticed any changes. Was there something else I was supposed to do?

Did you install the firmware?

Dale

megabadd · 12-10-2009, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by DaleDe

Did you install the firmware?

Dale

I installed the newest firmware on the site, but for the font pack, all it said was to unzip it to the root of my machine, which I did.

So, I can read Japanese .txts fine, and ONE of my Japanese news site feeds comes in ok (yomiuri) (The news stories' text are fine, but the table of contents is ???). However, the other two japanese feeds and the chinese news feed is nothing but ???.

In terms of figuring out trends, my generally working yomiuri rss comes from here: http://rss.yomiuri.co.jp/rss/yol/topstories, while my other news sites come from .xml files like: http://feeds.lifehacker.jp/rss/lifehacker/index.xml

Could it be that the other sites are xml that is messing me up?

DaleDe · 12-11-2009, 11:37 AM

Yes, it one works and others do not then it is likely that the fonts loaded ok and something else is going on. I am not sure why they would use a .xml extension. Are you converting these documents? Can you view them on your computer?

Dale

megabadd · 12-11-2009, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by DaleDe

Yes, it one works and others do not then it is likely that the fonts loaded ok and something else is going on. I am not sure why they would use a .xml extension. Are you converting these documents? Can you view them on your computer?

Dale

Though, the TOC for that one is still ???. The .xml extension is for the RRS feed page, and I'm just using the basic import option in Calibre and I can view them fine on my computer.

If I could just get this to work, this ereader will be perfect.

DaleDe · 12-11-2009, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by megabadd

Though, the TOC for that one is still ???. The .xml extension is for the RRS feed page, and I'm just using the basic import option in Calibre and I can view them fine on my computer.

If I could just get this to work, this ereader will be perfect.

Which format are you converting them to? It may be that TOC is not supported in that format or it is more likely that TOC software, which is outside, the book itself doesn't support the fonts. I take it you see some sort of TOC that works but only shows the ??? text.

Dale

wallcraft · 12-11-2009, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by DaleDe

it is more likely that TOC software, which is outside, the book itself doesn't support the fonts.

That seems to be the case, see Embeded fonts vs. TOC.

megabadd · 12-11-2009, 02:16 PM

Converting them to epub. One of my news feeds has the ??? only in the TOC and the others have ??? throughout.

DaleDe · 12-11-2009, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by megabadd

Converting them to epub. One of my news feeds has the ??? only in the TOC and the others have ??? throughout.

I would suggest you open them up (unzip) and look at the html files in your browser and see if you can see any difference.

Dale

megabadd · 12-11-2009, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by DaleDe

I would suggest you open them up (unzip) and look at the html files in your browser and see if you can see any difference.

Dale

The html files opened up fine.

12-10-2009, 11:02 AM	#1
megabadd Enthusiast Posts: 25 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Astak PP	Calibre, Astak PP, and foreign languages. Help! Hi all. Newcomer here, just got my Astak PP and started using Calibre. I bought the Astak PP because I heard that it had built in foreign language support and I mainly want to use it to read Chinese and Japanese. So, I use Calibre to fetch Chinese and Japanese news sites , but it comes up as ??? for all of my news pulls. The files are converted to epub but are not displaying correctly. I have updated my firmware, but I'm not sure as to what I should do from here. Converting the files to PDF makes them readable, but I'd rather have them in epub and use the automatic fetching and conversion feature of Calibre. Can anyone help me out? Last edited by megabadd; 12-10-2009 at 11:27 AM.

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12-10-2009, 11:19 AM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,791 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	You would best check on this over at Calibre forum. If the page displays in the Calibre epub viewer, I would guess the fonts are not being included in the EPUB file nor in the same storage device (main or SDcard) as the document.

12-10-2009, 11:25 AM	#3
megabadd Enthusiast Posts: 25 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Astak PP	Thanks. They do appear correctly on my computer. How would I go about adding fonts to my Astak PP?

12-10-2009, 12:23 PM	#4
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,975 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	Did you install the "Adobe language package for Chinese, Japanese & Korean", from the firmware download page?

12-11-2009, 11:37 AM	#9
DaleDe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,470 Karma: 13095790 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Grass Valley, CA Device: EB 1150, EZ Reader, Literati, iPad 2 & Air 2, iPhone 7	Yes, it one works and others do not then it is likely that the fonts loaded ok and something else is going on. I am not sure why they would use a .xml extension. Are you converting these documents? Can you view them on your computer? Dale

12-11-2009, 02:16 PM	#13
megabadd Enthusiast Posts: 25 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Astak PP	Converting them to epub. One of my news feeds has the ??? only in the TOC and the others have ??? throughout.