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Old 04-08-2010, 09:53 PM   #1
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Chinese Font Support Problem

Greetings from a Chinese user.

I installed the Chinese font support for DR800SG under the initial firmware. I attached the folder structure and files I used in installing the support. The folder structure was like
SD root
└─Programs (folder)
│ InstallChinese.desktop
│ RemoveChinese.desktop

└─_chinese (folder)
│ restore.sh
│ install.sh

└─fonts(folder)
Basically, it is about the same thing as installing the FBreaders. Under the firmware 1.0, Chinese TXT worked fine. And if I added CSS
@font-face {
font-family:"my font";
src:url(res:///usr/share/fonts/ttf/my_font.ttf), url(res:///my_font.ttf);
}
, the Chinese epub also read fine.

Today I upgraded the firmware to 2.0 beta, now the epub files do not work well (txt in epub fiels becomes ???, the txt files still work well). I guess there is only a path problem in the CSS file. I do not understand much of the linux. Can any high-hand give me a hint how to change the CSS path to correct the epub reading problem?

Thank you!
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Old 04-08-2010, 11:44 PM   #2
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Any linux high-hand up here? Please help.
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http://www.hi-pda.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=576609

DR800SG的字库和FBReader的安装
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Old 04-09-2010, 01:16 AM   #4
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Thanks, bro. I installed the Chinese support using the method by this link. It worked for the firmware 1.0, but stopped working (only for epub) for the 2.0 beta firmware.

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The 2.0 firmware now adds proper support for CSS userStyles and loading of resource URI's.

I believe it will work if you change your CSS to:

Code:
@font-face {
font-family:"my font";
src:url(res://fonts/ttf/my_font.ttf);
}
All resources will now be loaded from /usr/share by default.

See also /usr/share/userStyle.css on the device.
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Old 04-09-2010, 02:30 AM   #6
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Thank you, thank you!

I will try now, will give feed back later.
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The 2.0 firmware now adds proper support for CSS userStyles and loading of resource URI's.

I believe it will work if you change your CSS to:

Code:
@font-face {
font-family:"my font";
src:url(res://fonts/ttf/my_font.ttf);
}
All resources will now be loaded from /usr/share by default.

See also /usr/share/userStyle.css on the device.
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Old 04-09-2010, 02:49 AM   #7
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Hello, Matthijs,

You may missed one / after res://, right?
unfortunately this did not work out (tried both res:// and res:///).

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The 2.0 firmware now adds proper support for CSS userStyles and loading of resource URI's.

I believe it will work if you change your CSS to:

Code:
@font-face {
font-family:"my font";
src:url(res://fonts/ttf/my_font.ttf);
}
All resources will now be loaded from /usr/share by default.

See also /usr/share/userStyle.css on the device.
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Hmm, strange. It should have 3 slashes indeed. And you did make sure the font is actually copied into /usr/share/fonts/ttf/my_font.ttf?

Our userStyle.css does the following, which works fine:

Code:
@font-face { font-family: sans-serif; src: url(res:///fonts/ttf/DejaVuSans.ttf)}
You may need to add your custom font-face definition into our userStyle.css?

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Old 04-09-2010, 03:48 AM   #9
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what about adding other fonts for other languages? How do we do that on the DR800SG? I tried to modify the installation files from Chinese and use a different directory with another font, but it didn't work.
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Hmm, strange. It should have 3 slashes indeed. And you did make sure the font is actually copied into /usr/share/fonts/ttf/my_font.ttf?

Our userStyle.css does the following, which works fine:

Code:
@font-face { font-family: sans-serif; src: url(res:///fonts/ttf/DejaVuSans.ttf)}
You may need to add your custom font-face definition into our userStyle.css?
Matthijs,

Where is the userStyle.css? We have to hack the source code?

thanks
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Matthijs,

Where is the userStyle.css? We have to hack the source code?

thanks
The location was already mentioned in message #5 in this thread:
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See also /usr/share/userStyle.css on the device.
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If you want, you can make /usr/share/userStyle.css a symlink to /media/mmcblk0p1/System/userStyle.css and have easier access to it for editing.

You can probably also create a symlink /usr/share/fonts -> /media/mmcblk0p1/System/fonts and put all sorts of TTF and OTF fonts in there... (untested)
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Hello, Matthijs, where is this folder? I mean, /usr/share ? I could not find it.


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If you want, you can make /usr/share/userStyle.css a symlink to /media/mmcblk0p1/System/userStyle.css and have easier access to it for editing.

You can probably also create a symlink /usr/share/fonts -> /media/mmcblk0p1/System/fonts and put all sorts of TTF and OTF fonts in there... (untested)
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url(res:///fonts/ttf/msyh.ttf)

it work.
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Hello, euzen, where did you put your fonts? Did you use the CHinese hack the Hi-pda provided?
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url(res:///fonts/ttf/msyh.ttf)

it work.
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