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GeoffR · 07-18-2015, 06:04 AM

I think we can forget about the -kobo-font-hintstyle idea. I patched the firmware to change the setting from 1 to 0 in the built-in stylesheet but it didn't make any difference at all to the rendering. I took a screenshot in the KEPUB reader with Georgia selected, and the PNG screenshots before and after patching were byte-for-byte identical. So either -kobo-font-hintstyle does nothing or Georgia had no hinting to start with.

07-18-2015, 06:04 AM	#7
GeoffR Wizard Posts: 3,821 Karma: 19162882 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Te Riu-a-Māui Device: Kobo Glo	Don't waste your time with -kobo-font-hintstyle I think we can forget about the -kobo-font-hintstyle idea. I patched the firmware to change the setting from 1 to 0 in the built-in stylesheet but it didn't make any difference at all to the rendering. I took a screenshot in the KEPUB reader with Georgia selected, and the PNG screenshots before and after patching were byte-for-byte identical. So either -kobo-font-hintstyle does nothing or Georgia had no hinting to start with.