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sebasdoes · 07-10-2010, 06:20 PM

Has anyone done this with a Japanese font? If yes, do you know what settings I would need in Calibre, what font should work and what CSS to use? I've tried it with Osaka.ttf from MacOS but all I got was question marks when in the book. I must've screwed up somewhere...

Edit: Most of my books were in some Aozora Bunko-like format; .txt with image files. The txt files had HTML-style links to the image files, it was really weird. Anyway, the program 青P in combination with the IPA Mona font got me a working PDF for my Sony. I had to use the Mona font because the default font used by 青P did not work (pages were blank when viewed on the PSR-600). I can recommend that you keep the default (non-working) font for the furigana though, since they don't show up correctly in the text, this way they won't show up at all. After converting you can add the metadata with Calibre and you're good to go.

If your original text files are in SJIS you must first convert them to UTF8. I used a small program called TextEncodingConverter for that.

07-10-2010, 06:20 PM	#220
sebasdoes Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Sony PRS-600	Japanese Has anyone done this with a Japanese font? If yes, do you know what settings I would need in Calibre, what font should work and what CSS to use? I've tried it with Osaka.ttf from MacOS but all I got was question marks when in the book. I must've screwed up somewhere... Edit: Most of my books were in some Aozora Bunko-like format; .txt with image files. The txt files had HTML-style links to the image files, it was really weird. Anyway, the program 青P in combination with the IPA Mona font got me a working PDF for my Sony. I had to use the Mona font because the default font used by 青P did not work (pages were blank when viewed on the PSR-600). I can recommend that you keep the default (non-working) font for the furigana though, since they don't show up correctly in the text, this way they won't show up at all. After converting you can add the metadata with Calibre and you're good to go. If your original text files are in SJIS you must first convert them to UTF8. I used a small program called TextEncodingConverter for that. Last edited by sebasdoes; 07-11-2010 at 06:43 PM. Reason: Worked around my problem.