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Originally Posted by Dereks
Oh, I can totally understand you in this situation, as I'm Cyrillic-reader and had the same problem with my Sony Reader. I wish somebody had written a good tutorial/guide for dealing with non-latin fonts in Calibre, since it bothers lot's of people.
Unfortunately I can't be specific, since I never owned a kindle, moreover didn't deal with arabic fonts, but I think the algorithm should be similar to what did it for me in Sony Reader.
There is a field in calibre's conversion options called "Extra CSS, located in "Preferences => (Conversion) Common Options".
For sony readers you're supposed to input something like this:
Code:
@font-face {font-family: serif; src:url(res:///opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0011m_.ttf)}
@font-face {font-family: sans-serif; src:url(res:///opt/sony/ebook/FONT/tt0003m_.ttf)}
html {font-family: serif;}
h1 {font-family: sans-serif;}
This will insert reference to the device's internal font's, which in my case supports Cyrillic.
Two questions here:
1) Does Kalibre support Arabic fonts by default. - Not sure here, but I think it does, I read it somewhere that they have an extensive support of all major language groups.
2) where are these fonts located and how can they be referenced on Kindle.
I hope this was any help.
Also, since you've basically need an .mobi output, appropriate thread would be this one:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36729
Maybe somebody can help you more there. |
One of the members tried to import Arabic books in ePub format into his Sony Reader, but that didn't work well.
As you said; which was very helpful
, that you can reference certain fonts within the reader itself. I also find out that some people would like to change the font from San Serif to New Times Roman and so on.
But, that doesn't work for Arabic or some other languages unfortunately. Calibre does support Arabic and many other languages, but it doesn't offer embedding these languages with books when you want to transfer them to the e-reader.
My question is this, how Cyrillic is doing with other languages other than Arabic? Have you tried that?