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pgaunt · 07-05-2014, 01:51 PM

Can someone explain to me where I'm going wrong with sideloading fonts onto my Aura or if it's actually a bug in the software?

I load fonts into the directory called 'fonts' and name them using the scheme 'FontName-Face' where 'Face' is one of Regular, Italic, Bold or BoldItalic.

Around half the time this works fine but the rest of the time the Aura gets muddled and thinks that the fonts aren't as they are - sometimes it will, for example, think that the Italic font is the Regular font and other times it will think that the Bold font is.

The problem, if it exists, always shows up in the font menu but usually only affects the actual display of kepubs but not epubs.

There seems to be no system to whether it gets it right or wrong leading me to suspect that it might just be kind of random.

I'm getting the fonts from various sources - off my Mac and from Google's webfonts.

07-05-2014, 01:51 PM	#1
pgaunt Member Posts: 23 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2014 Device: Kobo Aura	Sideloaded fonts Can someone explain to me where I'm going wrong with sideloading fonts onto my Aura or if it's actually a bug in the software? I load fonts into the directory called 'fonts' and name them using the scheme 'FontName-Face' where 'Face' is one of Regular, Italic, Bold or BoldItalic. Around half the time this works fine but the rest of the time the Aura gets muddled and thinks that the fonts aren't as they are - sometimes it will, for example, think that the Italic font is the Regular font and other times it will think that the Bold font is. The problem, if it exists, always shows up in the font menu but usually only affects the actual display of kepubs but not epubs. There seems to be no system to whether it gets it right or wrong leading me to suspect that it might just be kind of random. I'm getting the fonts from various sources - off my Mac and from Google's webfonts.