PRS-T1 Modified Sony home screen

[giosa]

Originally Posted by Morkl

Not really my area of expertise, I'm afraid. The way I've chosen to change fonts is the modified Reader.

Do you know how to change the font that's responsible for book titles and authors names?

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by giosa

Do you know how to change the font that's responsible for book titles and authors names?

This was one of the features of PRSPlus on the older Sony models, but I can't say I've noticed any threads discussing it for the T1. Perhaps one of the 'rooted T1' gurus would know how to do it. In PRSPlus, it was achieved by running a .sh script on boot-up which performed a series of 'mount --bind' commands on customised versions of stock font files (tt0003m_.ttf, tt0011m_.ttf, tt0419m_.ttf). I could post a copy of the old .sh script to give you some clues, but I don't know whether it would be any use on an Android device. I'm afraid my Linux/Android skills are non-existent.

[giosa]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

This was one of the features of PRSPlus on the older Sony models, but I can't say I've noticed any threads discussing it for the T1. Perhaps one of the 'rooted T1' gurus would know how to do it. In PRSPlus, it was achieved by running a .sh script on boot-up which performed a series of 'mount --bind' commands on customised versions of stock font files (tt0003m_.ttf, tt0011m_.ttf, tt0419m_.ttf). I could post a copy of the old .sh script to give you some clues, but I don't know whether it would be any use on an Android device. I'm afraid my Linux/Android skills are non-existent.

Thanks jakie_w. I think, changing system fonts is interesting for Unicode language users, like me, who has problems displaying titles, bookmarks etc. in Georgian. Hope some "gurus" will be interested too.

If I know any development in this area I'll post.

[vietchovui]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Please post your reader.xml contents.
In which T1 directory did you store the gentium fonts?
What do you see when you press Menu - Font - Selected Font Type from within a book?

Please have a look at the reader.xml that I've edited by adding

<font name="Gentium Book" path="../../mnt/sdcard/reader/fonts/" regular="GenBkBasR.ttf" italic="GenBkBasI.ttf" bold="GenBkBasB.ttf" bolditalic="GenBkBasBI.ttf" />

at the bottom- most of the file.
Font files are in the "i:\reader\fonts\" folder which I is the reader drive.
When I press menu\font there is only option to choose font size, no dropbox to choose font type (plz see the attached screenshot).

[Morkl]

Originally Posted by giosa

Thanks jakie_w. I think, changing system fonts is interesting for Unicode language users, like me, who has problems displaying titles, bookmarks etc. in Georgian. Hope some "gurus" will be interested too.

If I know any development in this area I'll post.

Do you have a link to an EPUB with Georgian title to test with?

Originally Posted by vietchovui

Please have a look at the reader.xml that I've edited by adding

at the bottom- most of the file.
Font files are in the "i:\reader\fonts\" folder which I is the reader drive.
When I press menu\font there is only option to choose font size, no dropbox to choose font type (plz see the attached screenshot).

Try removing one of the stock font rows from reader.xml and see if that helps; having more than 6 rows doesn't really work at the moment.

Never expected the menu to disappear completely though

[Rheingold]

Hi Morkl,

THX for the great programs - very good work!

I'm wondering about consequences concerning the new FW version 1.0.04.12210.
Is the mod reader still working?

At last I have a question: Is it correct to place my own style.css in a new folder "css" on the READER partition?

Greetings ...

[giosa]

Originally Posted by Morkl

Do you have a link to an EPUB with Georgian title to test with?

@Morkl

Here's Georgian epub

[Morkl]

Originally Posted by Rheingold

Hi Morkl,

THX for the great programs - very good work!

I'm wondering about consequences concerning the new FW version 1.0.04.12210.
Is the mod reader still working?

At last I have a question: Is it correct to place my own style.css in a new folder "css" on the READER partition?

Greetings ...

The latest versions of both Reader and Home are based on the ones in the 1.0.04.12210 firmware. They were pretty much identical to the ones in the previous firmware though, so I'd expect them to work on both. No, wait, no, I was totally confused when I wrote that. Will do some research on the new FW ASAP.

Yes, that's where it looks for it.

Originally Posted by giosa

@Morkl

Here's Georgian epub

Thanks!

[herbert4231]

Hey!
Have you watched this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXYHvYo5LEE
It shows a trick to enter a partial refresh mode which is very usable for file browsers and other apps which usually have a lot of flashing.
Do you think you could make this mode be activated by a button combination or something like that? It would be better than having to open the browser every time.

Of course it would be even better if you find out how to enable a partial-refresh mode which isn't just black and white, but I don't know if that is possible.
Keep up the great work, Morkl. You already made my reader a lot more enjoyable.

[Morkl]

Originally Posted by herbert4231

Hey!
Have you watched this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXYHvYo5LEE
It shows a trick to enter a partial refresh mode which is very usable for file browsers and other apps which usually have a lot of flashing.
Do you think you could make this mode be activated by a button combination or something like that? It would be better than having to open the browser every time.

Of course it would be even better if you find out how to enable a partial-refresh mode which isn't just grayscale, but I don't know if that is possible.
Keep up the great work, Morkl. You already made my reader a lot more enjoyable.

Yesterday, hberntsen posted a "no refresh enabler" here, which can be added as a notification bar shortcut. I think that is a pretty nice solution

[herbert4231]

Originally Posted by Morkl

Yesterday, hberntsen posted a "no refresh enabler" here, which can be added as a notification bar shortcut. I think that is a pretty nice solution

Nice! This works pretty well.
Another idea I had is to turn flashing off in general (greyscale like he achieved with the new framework editing). Even for the reader and the browser.
Then there should be a button combination or touch gesticure to let the screen flash (to stop ghosting). It would give the user more control and would be the best way to have less of this annoying flashing.
Do you think you could implement this option?

[vietchovui]

Originally Posted by Rheingold

Hi Morkl,

THX for the great programs - very good work!

I'm wondering about consequences concerning the new FW version 1.0.04.12210.
Is the mod reader still working?

At last I have a question: Is it correct to place my own style.css in a new folder "css" on the READER partition?

Greetings ...

I think my problem previously mentioned (post #130 and 139) is due to the update to firmware ver 1.0.04.12210.

[soseono]

Originally Posted by vietchovui

I think my problem previously mentioned (post #130 and 139) is due to the update to firmware ver 1.0.04.12210.

I doubt it... I have the 1.0.04.12210 firmware and reinstalled the 2012-01-22 version (the latest thus far) of Morkl's EbookReader on top of it, and the font selector has worked fine with at least six books so far.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by soseono

I doubt it... I have the 1.0.04.12210 firmware and reinstalled the 2012-01-22 version (the latest thus far) of Morkl's EbookReader on top of it, and the font selector has worked fine with at least six books so far.

That's interesting... I've been holding off doing the latest official upgrade just in case Morkl's modified reader app didn't work anymore.

I had also assumed the Sony changes to fix the 'unwanted dictionary pop-up' bug would be implemented in the reader app. Does this mean that this bug isn't currently fixed on your setup? Or perhaps you've never been affected by the bug. I definitely have seen it, but it's a minor inconvenience to work around compared to not having the modified reader app.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by vietchovui

I think my problem previously mentioned (post #130 and 139) is due to the update to firmware ver 1.0.04.12210.

I thought Morkl had already pointed out your problem? You had 7 fonts defined in your reader.xml file when the maximum is 6. Did removing one of them not work?