Kindle Paperwhite Font Help Request - Page 3

heatherlynn · 02-16-2013, 10:35 PM

okay i am using a kindle touch on 5.3.2 and i am apparently not doing this right because no custom fonts are being installed on my kindle. this is what my kindle drive looks like:

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2wcr3ah&s=6

i added the USE_ALT_FONTS txt file and the fonts folder, ejected my kindle and then restarted it. please let me know what i'm doing wrong thank you

Blossom · 02-16-2013, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by heatherlynn

okay i am using a kindle touch on 5.3.2 and i am apparently not doing this right because no custom fonts are being installed on my kindle. this is what my kindle drive looks like:

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2wcr3ah&s=6

i added the USE_ALT_FONTS txt file and the fonts folder, ejected my kindle and then restarted it. please let me know what i'm doing wrong thank you

Remove the .txt extension of USE_ALT_FONTS so it's has none.

heatherlynn · 02-16-2013, 10:54 PM

how do i do that? sorry i'm a little dumb when it comes to this kind of stuff lol

sparklemotion · 02-16-2013, 10:58 PM

Here's a link to a proper alt fonts file, if that helps. The link is courtesy of user xtine, they were nice enough to share it.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...7&postcount=50

heatherlynn · 02-16-2013, 11:02 PM

yes! thank you very much to the both of you

you guys were a big help!

MaxStirner · 08-31-2013, 05:46 PM

If anybody needs to edit font names (such as postscript name, font family name, typeface name etc) because one wants to install different subsets of the same font - there's no need to install a full fledged font editor. There's a small free java utility that does the job and is just about a megabyte in size.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ttfedit/
Looks abandoned but works. Tested on Ubuntu font family.

02-16-2013, 10:35 PM	#31
heatherlynn Connoisseur Posts: 75 Karma: 599978 Join Date: Feb 2013 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	okay i am using a kindle touch on 5.3.2 and i am apparently not doing this right because no custom fonts are being installed on my kindle. this is what my kindle drive looks like: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2wcr3ah&s=6 i added the USE_ALT_FONTS txt file and the fonts folder, ejected my kindle and then restarted it. please let me know what i'm doing wrong thank you Last edited by heatherlynn; 02-16-2013 at 10:41 PM.

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02-16-2013, 10:54 PM	#33
heatherlynn Connoisseur Posts: 75 Karma: 599978 Join Date: Feb 2013 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	how do i do that? sorry i'm a little dumb when it comes to this kind of stuff lol

02-16-2013, 10:58 PM	#34
sparklemotion dangerous when cornered Posts: 1,855 Karma: 22891237 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: USA Device: Kobo H2O, Kindle Paperwhite	Here's a link to a proper alt fonts file, if that helps. The link is courtesy of user xtine, they were nice enough to share it. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...7&postcount=50

02-16-2013, 11:02 PM	#35
heatherlynn Connoisseur Posts: 75 Karma: 599978 Join Date: Feb 2013 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	yes! thank you very much to the both of you you guys were a big help!

08-31-2013, 05:46 PM	#36
MaxStirner Connoisseur Posts: 71 Karma: 18500 Join Date: Apr 2013 Device: Kindle Touch, Paperwhite	If anybody needs to edit font names (such as postscript name, font family name, typeface name etc) because one wants to install different subsets of the same font - there's no need to install a full fledged font editor. There's a small free java utility that does the job and is just about a megabyte in size. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ttfedit/ Looks abandoned but works. Tested on Ubuntu font family.

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