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Old 12-31-2009, 04:07 PM   #1
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Font problem

After the painful anticipation, my 360 arrived today. Have to say I can't be happier with the hardware, it's just so nice and slick. But then I encountered some problems with the font for Vietnamese. I copied Times Unicode font to system/fonts folder then change the Interface Font to that font. But when I tried opening a Vietnamese book the characters came out weird. Did I do anything wrong? Do I have to embed the font or something, and if so, how. Thanks in advance.
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Hi

1) are you Reading the ebook using fbreader on the PocketBook? Go to Menu / Books and do a long press on the middle OK button and you should get Open With ... Then choose FBReader

2) once your book is open do a quick press on the middle OK button and choose the settings icon where you should be able to select your font you've installed

I don't know if this will fix it but I hope it does and Happy New Year
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Old 01-01-2010, 02:20 AM   #3
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I'm using FBReader as the default reader and encoding is UTF8 but the result was disappointing. The book I was trying to read is in prc format, if that is somehow relevant. Thanks for the input.
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I don't have a PocketBook, but the usual reasons for FBReader not being able to display an ebook are a) wrong font, or b) wrong encoding. If you have selected the font inside FBReader (as poshm described) then what is left is the encoding. I'm not sure if the PocketBook allows manual changes to the encoding. This is possible using Desktop FBReader (Windows or Linux), where it is under the i-BOOK icon (the font is under the gear wheel icon). So it may be worth seeing if Desktop FBReader has the same problem.

MOBI ebooks do have an explicit encoding specified in their metadata, but FBReader does not use this (so it may be using cp-1252 by default). I'm not sure if this is a lack of attention to the MOBI format within FBReader or because the encoding is often wrong (and it is quite often wrong in MOBIs). The latest FBReader does use the encoding specified in an ePub, so converting to ePub using Calibre might fix your problem.
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Old 01-01-2010, 06:52 AM   #5
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Yes, PB360 FBReader allows manually selecting the encoding.
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Old 01-01-2010, 07:44 AM   #6
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I don't have a PocketBook, but the usual reasons for FBReader not being able to display an ebook are a) wrong font, or b) wrong encoding. If you have selected the font inside FBReader (as poshm described) then what is left is the encoding. I'm not sure if the PocketBook allows manual changes to the encoding. This is possible using Desktop FBReader (Windows or Linux), where it is under the i-BOOK icon (the font is under the gear wheel icon). So it may be worth seeing if Desktop FBReader has the same problem.

MOBI ebooks do have an explicit encoding specified in their metadata, but FBReader does not use this (so it may be using cp-1252 by default). I'm not sure if this is a lack of attention to the MOBI format within FBReader or because the encoding is often wrong (and it is quite often wrong in MOBIs). The latest FBReader does use the encoding specified in an ePub, so converting to ePub using Calibre might fix your problem.
Yes manual encoding changes are possible! Vietnamese encoding is expressly supported. You can change your encoding by tapping you ok button, then go to configuration (the tools icon) then change your encoding manually.
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Old 01-01-2010, 12:00 PM   #7
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I tried a few font/encoding combinations but none works so far.
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Old 01-01-2010, 01:25 PM   #8
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I am having the same issue with a japanese font and a prc file. Ill see if I can get an answer about it.
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Old 01-04-2010, 04:54 AM   #9
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I tried the cena font recommended by poshm. Works for interface font. But when I use it for FBreader, it just draws a blank. Trying to figure out why. Seems fine with the other fonts though.
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Old 01-04-2010, 03:42 PM   #10
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Hi Larrie

My Cena font is named CENAN___.TTF but if I hold my mouse over it says CENA regular true-type font. I am running Windows Vista Home edition and this was on my system.

I really can't explain how it works for me and not for you unless you have a different version of the CENA font? I did look to see if I could find a download for it online but sadly I could not find it which is a shame. But I suggest to try any true-type fonts you have installed on your windows edition and see what you like - you can easily delete fonts you don't wish to use.
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Could i get the epub and the font file via PN ?

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So anyone knows how to get the 360 to read vietnamese?
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Old 01-05-2010, 05:05 AM   #13
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Thanks a lot for your help poshm. It appears to be the exact same font. You are right, I am also wondering why cena does not appear on my version of the PBreader.. (am on latest FW 14.2 as well). i get the feeling that somehow a "white" version of the font gets loaded for the PB reader, so white on white = Blank! Strangely enough, it functions fine as an interface font. I was considering a FW reset, but since all the other fonts worked just fine on my PBreader, I decided to just do with the other fonts for now..
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Old 01-06-2010, 06:06 AM   #14
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I've tried a few Thai ebooks using a Thai font called Angsana. The consonants are great. The higher and lower vowels problems that normally expected are rare. Overall, they looks fabulous but, in fact, unreadable.

At the end of every lines, a few words keep disappearing. I've used ePub and fb2. The results are exactly the same for both formats. Someone recommends about making PDF with big font size and smaller document size but I haven't try this way.
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Hmm, curious, Alilas, curious...
Going through the list of usual suspects:
1- Latest firmware?
2- Original FB Reader or SFF SBReader
3- Tried ePub with both FBReader and Adobe Reader?
4- Tried ePub and FB2 on PC?
5- (Assuming the eBooks are home-made/converted) how are they made/converted? Calibre? Book Designer? Something else?
7- What was the original format?
6- Try RTF, DOC, HTML or TXT...

The fact that the document displays properly but consistently crops one margin (Viewport-ing it, in effect) suggests a conversion issue somewhere.

Curious...
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