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Old 11-06-2010, 05:16 PM   #1057
KarlSchroeder
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Changing fonts WITHIN a book?

I just performed the font hack on my Kindle 3, because I have a book I bought from the Kindle store whose font is very bad (some letters are cut up, eg. the narrowest parts of the lines disappear). It's clearly not one of the default fonts, but I want to be able to read this book, since I paid for it. So, I installed the font hack, but how do I change the default fonts in a given book? That's what I want to know, but none of the documentation I've seen on this hack actually says how to do that, though there are pictures that indicate that it must be possible. I would have thought that the Aa menu would be the place to do this, but it's not.

I can see that the fonts in the menus have changed, but who cares about the fonts in the menus? The only ones that matter are the ones in the books. There's an extremely vague statement in the docs about "copying the fonts you want to the linkfonts/fonts directory" but what fonts? And from where? Since the font hack install file clearly changes the default menu fonts, it's clearly installing new fonts--so what are these other "new fonts" that the docs say you should copy over yourself? How do you select fonts on a "per book" basis? Can you? And how do I apply the font I want to a book that seems to ship with nonstandard fonts?
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