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Originally Posted by Croker
I'd echo this as a fair summary of the situation. Please also note that I've just recently jailbroken my Voyage before updating the firmware to 5.8.5. KUAL and the screensaver hack seem to work fine on 5.8.5, but I couldn't get the font hack to work at all. Whether this is a temporary thing occasioned by a new firmware, I don't know, but it seems likely.
I do have to say that I personally don't feel very comfortable with the overwriting approach, anyway - you may feel differently, of course! Back when I last had a jailbroken Kindle, it was possible to display and select the other fonts you'd installed via the hack in the Kindle's menu, which I vastly preferred. Obviously, doing that has since been made impossible by newer firmwares, and your only option on later firmwares is to overwrite an existing font.
Out of interest, Harry, is there any performance issue from having a lot of books with embedded fonts on a Kindle? I use a Voyage, and I have approx. 660 books, none of which have embedded fonts at the moment. I've just tested a book with an embedded font (ChareInk), and obviously the file size is larger, but performance on the device seems otherwise fine. I'd like to do this for my entire library, but I'd rather not if it's going to adversely affect my Kindle/make it sluggish, though. Any tips greatly appreciated!  |
Have you installed Python?
Did you install Python BEFORE installing the font add-in?
Go to:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=219405
Open the spoiler under the section: "Installation" and check your work carefully.
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The re-installation of add-ins after an update -
That has been true ever since (about) firmware version 5.1.2 when Amazon switched to complete image updates.
It is one of the main reasons for MrPI -
Which runs in 'batch mode' - allowing you to re-install everything at once (just put all of your update_*.bin packages in /mrpackages at the same time).