05-06-2008, 05:35 AM | #31 |
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Does anybody knows where can i find customized greek fonts??
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05-08-2008, 04:55 AM | #32 | |
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1) How do I find a font with family name "Swis721 BT" (and the other two)? 2) Are fonts included with Windows XP Unicode or not? And if they are not, where would one look for unicode fonts? I am using Czech (East European) Windows. |
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05-09-2008, 10:30 AM | #33 | |
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05-10-2008, 10:08 AM | #36 |
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For some strange reason I can't get it to work. I used FontMapper to modify standard Windows' Courier, Times and Verdana to the font families mentioned in the first post and renamed the files accordingly.Then I copied them and the fontmapper files to the SD card. This is what my directory structure contains:
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K:\libfskLoad.so K:\myvm2.xml K:\FONT\tt0003m_.ttf K:\FONT\tt0011m_.ttf K:\FONT\tt0419m_.ttf K:\Sony Reader\software\autorun.js K:\Sony Reader\software\autorun.xml Code:
Run script PRS-505 FONT MAPPER mouting FONT directory failed. MENU: exit The card is formatted as FAT16 (I even reformatted it to make sure). I copied all files using my favorite file manager and I took care to keep font cases as described in the first post. The good news is that no data got deleted from either the internal memory or the SD card. Any idea what's wrong? |
05-10-2008, 11:27 AM | #37 |
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I think the problem is that you have
\FONT\tt0003m_.ttf \FONT\tt0011m_.ttf \FONT\tt0419m_.ttf on your SD card, they should be on your reader. |
05-10-2008, 11:48 AM | #38 |
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Cool! It apparently worked - the menu font is all different now. Thanks a lot for your help!
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05-10-2008, 04:04 PM | #39 |
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no problem, I've been helped sp many times on these forums i thought it was my time to try
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05-17-2008, 12:17 AM | #40 |
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This font hack worked for me. I'm having trouble with calibre after it though.
I did the font hack, then I copied a Chinese LRF ebook to it (which also has a Chinese title - not sure if that matters) using the Sony Connect software. The book works fine - the Chinese text appears properly in the menus, and the book's Chinese text is also fine. When I try connecting the reader via USB with calibre running however, I get the following error with no SD card inserted: Code:
ExpatError: mismatched tag: line 50, column 1948 Failed to perform job: Get metadata from device Further device related error messages will not be shown while this message is visible. Detailed traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/gui2/jobs.py", line 64, in run File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 81, in books File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/devices/prs505/driver.py", line 293, in books File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/devices/prs505/books.py", line 134, in __init__ File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1915, in parse return expatbuilder.parse(file) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 928, in parse result = builder.parseFile(file) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 207, in parseFile parser.Parse(buffer, 0) ExpatError: mismatched tag: line 50, column 1948 After erasing the media.xml and resetting my reader with a soft reset (which apparently killed the font hack, since the Chinese text turned into boxes), it worked fine. Then after re-applying the hack, I get the error. Not sure if it matters, but this is running calibre in Ubuntu 8.04. Last edited by Guesser; 05-17-2008 at 12:30 AM. |
05-19-2008, 06:22 PM | #41 |
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Guesser, it's probably a problem caused by the "dirty" remount this hack is using. It'll mess up the filesystem if subsequent write (e.g., use Sony Connect software to update book database on the 505) is performed. So I suggest you only apply the hack after you are done with copying new books. To be really safe, each time you connect 505 to PC, do a soft reset first to clear the effect of this hack.
The reason why Calibre fails on the PC end is beyond me, but I suspect it's related this hack. Probably someone could patch Calibre to work again in this situation. As I don't use it (and I no long have a 505), I can't suggest a fix. Sorry! I recommend people using this hack to store all books on a SD card if they use Sony Connect software. This way it'll avoid updating 505's internal mem when updating book databases. So there'll be no danger of corrupting meta files or having the 505 to re-format LRFs, which is a milliion times slower than the PC. Last edited by alanine; 05-19-2008 at 06:25 PM. |
05-22-2008, 05:12 AM | #42 | |
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Maybe can temporarily "mount --bind" the tinyhttp.sh parent directory to some where in the SD card so that you can put a modified tinyhttp.sh there. After the restart of the tinyhttp, you could then do a "umount" to remove the temporarily binding. Just an idea, I did not receive my 505 yet. |
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06-10-2008, 07:40 AM | #43 |
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OK, I used this and it worked... partially. Font were really changed, but the reader is not displaying language-specific characters rightly, BUT IN THE TEXT ONLY. In the menu, characters are displayed correctly.
I used windows default fonts (time news roman, arial, courier) renamed using FontCreator. Is there any way the font can be displayed corrently in the text itself? |
06-10-2008, 07:45 AM | #44 |
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What books formats did you test it on?
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06-10-2008, 10:45 AM | #45 |
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Plain text, .txt
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