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Well, in a thread about reporting bugs in the Kobo firmware, who cares about how many bugs are in the firmware on other devices? That was the view I was expressing. And disagreeing with your statement of "extremely buggy".
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All I was saying was that, compared with the Kindle, the Kobo is very buggy.
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Yes, but you only told me that after I had made comments about how files could disappear. Read what I said again.
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Sorry to say it but that's just daft! The point was I mentioned it before you said I didn't.
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Had you restarted the device after adding the fonts? This is required. I think the recent firmware is recognising the fonts immediately, but I wouldn't guarantee that they are used properly.
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Yes, and the fonts were used 'properly' for two entire books.
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And the the firmware is picky about the file names and the internal names of the fonts being consistent [see what I mean about buggy? I've never come across any other piece of software that give a hoot what the file name is (extension, maybe but that is deprecated, now)] and in a particular format.
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Well, yes, the format is obviously important, but it's well defined and the files work perfectly well in Window's application. They also worked perfectly well for two books on the KOBO. Indeed, one of them still works, it's just that it's picking the wrong weight.
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If these are wrong the fonts are used properly.
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If there are any issues and these are not correct, then you cannot expect thing to work properly.
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Of course not, but given that they worked perfectly happily for about 700 pages it looks to me as if there are not any issues with the files. The fault appears to lie with the Kobo.
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Read my post. I said "force a restart". Not, "shutdown and restart". If the device crashes and restarts, or you hold the power button down for 20 seconds or so, then the device does not get a chance to shutdown cleanly and the file systems might be dirty. Exactly the same as if I pulled the power cord out of my Windows desktop.
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Well, crashing is not 'forcing a restart'. It's the device responding to a BUG from which it cannot recover.
As for holding down the power button (which, incidentally, I did not do), I'm not sure how much you know about software and how it functions, but I would be intrigued to know what you think the Kobo could be doing, internally,
for 20 seconds between finishing one book and starting another - that would leave the font files present but somehow stop the device using them properly.
(BTW, before you suggest it, copying the files OFF the Kobo and installing them on Windows, they work perfectly.
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And absolutely no patching or kludging needed for the Kobos. What people CHOOSE to do is up to them.
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That's nice to hear.
Let's just hope that all these bugs disappear when the new firmware is released.