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DNSB · 07-23-2012, 12:56 AM

Just a few more comments about my experience with the 2.0.2 update.

Having nothing better to do with a few spare hours, I opened up the update files going back to 1.9.11 and extracted the font files. I dumped those into the /usr/local/Trolltech/QtEmbedded-4.6.2-arm/lib/fonts/ folder in the 2.0.2 update .tar file. I also modified the english hyphenation to 60/60 at the same time. I then copied the modified files to the .kobo directory on the KT. After the pseudo-upgrade, I now have Amasis, Avenir, Delima, Felbridge, Georgia, Gill Sans, Rockwell, Times New Roman, Gothic MB101 and Ryumin fonts along with the sideloaded Charis SIL font. I now have 3 fonts with diacritics though Times New Roman is not my favourite font. It's a bit weird that Avenir when extracted on my desktop has regular, italic, bold and bold-italic variants but when I display it on the KT, bold, italic and bold-italic are all bold.

Otherwise, the cover page glitch came back after I sideloaded a couple of epubs and it took another expletive deleted factory reset to clean up the issue.

Overall, 2.0.2 still seems to be step forward from 2.0.0 for those who are willing to muck with their KTs.

07-23-2012, 12:56 AM	#638
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 46,784 Karma: 169712580 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	Just a few more comments about my experience with the 2.0.2 update. Having nothing better to do with a few spare hours, I opened up the update files going back to 1.9.11 and extracted the font files. I dumped those into the /usr/local/Trolltech/QtEmbedded-4.6.2-arm/lib/fonts/ folder in the 2.0.2 update .tar file. I also modified the english hyphenation to 60/60 at the same time. I then copied the modified files to the .kobo directory on the KT. After the pseudo-upgrade, I now have Amasis, Avenir, Delima, Felbridge, Georgia, Gill Sans, Rockwell, Times New Roman, Gothic MB101 and Ryumin fonts along with the sideloaded Charis SIL font. I now have 3 fonts with diacritics though Times New Roman is not my favourite font. It's a bit weird that Avenir when extracted on my desktop has regular, italic, bold and bold-italic variants but when I display it on the KT, bold, italic and bold-italic are all bold. Otherwise, the cover page glitch came back after I sideloaded a couple of epubs and it took another expletive deleted factory reset to clean up the issue. Overall, 2.0.2 still seems to be step forward from 2.0.0 for those who are willing to muck with their KTs.