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Originally Posted by mclien
@Kacir:
about fonts: can't llok on my windows machine, because I haven't one. But I'll find fonts on my GNU/Linux machine. Does anybody know of the freetype fonts work also?
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You are my man!
Here is what I do. I install lots of fonts on my Mint Linux machine using Package Manager, then I fire up fontmatrix program and inspect fonts. You can find out where the files are located in "info" tab for font in FontMatrix program.
You can also use other types of fonts on PocketBook, just add ttf suffix. So SomeFontName_Regular.otf would become SomeFontName_Regular.otf.ttf. I know it sounds stupid, but it works. PocketBook has Linux operating system with many Free software components and can use other font types. It just has stupid filter, so it can only "see" .ttf fonts in its fonts directory.
There are many, many sites on the web, legal and otherwise where you can download fonts
I have also installed program Fonty Python for inspecting fonts I download from the net.
I have even modified a few fonts using FontForge program. It is highly non-trivial operation. One of many reasons is that fonts are really complicated and when you load font to FontMatrix for edit, the hinting info is discarded and you have to re-generate it. But your auto-genereated hinting info will not be as good as some high-quality commercial fonts (such as Caecilia from Kindle or Ubuntu Font) have.
You can download PowerPoint viewer from Microsoft and install it under Wine on Linux. It will install Microsoft Core fonts to your Wine directory. So you can get fonts from Microsoft even if you do not use windows.
If you install safari browser in wine you can get original Apple Garamond font. I personally dislike Garamond so I haven't done that.
There are many free and legal fonts at
http://www.google.com/webfonts
If you want to convert a book so it doesn't contain embedded fonts, the best format is fb2. It is native format for FBReader. You can even zip fb2 book, and PocketBook will recognise *.fb2.zip file
And DO try that ubuntu font. Recently it is my absolute favourite for reading. Before that I was using mostly Gentium.
Oh ...
One more thing.
Install third-party FBReader to your reader, it is much more configurable than the built-in version. Also install Coolreader program.