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Old 09-05-2015, 08:31 AM   #258
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Originally Posted by Diruuo View Post
Hmm so I went ahead and applied only that patch (advanced font controls) to find out rather disappointedly that the Literata fonts are of the newer OTF type and thus the advanced settings don't change anything within my sideloaded epubs. I assume there's no workaround? I also am unable to find TTF versions of Literata although I believe most of the benefits of using a custom font like that are lost when switching to TTF.
I haven't tried Literata, but I don't think there is any disadvantage to using TTF, and there are two advantages:

1. In ePubs, the patch to enable TypeGenius for sideloaded fonts only works with TTF fonts.

2. in KePubs, kerning only works with TTF fonts that have 'old style' kerning tables.

If you use a program like fontforge to convert to TTF, enable 'old style' kerning tables, and remove hinting then you should have the ideal font format for Kobo e-ink devices.
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