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Originally Posted by davidfor
- Font selected for "Publisher Default" in epubs has changed. It was "Georgia", but no appears to be "Kobo Tsukushi Mincho". This is good in that this font has a fuller set of characters. But, it doesn't display either italics or bold in epubs. Which is not good.
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I haven't updated to this firmware version yet, but from what I can see in librmsdk they have also changed the generic "serif" font from "georgia" to "KBJ-TsukuMin Pr6N RB", and the generic "sans-serif" from "Avenir" to "KBJ-UDKakugo Pr6N M".
This means that if the publisher has forced the use of the generic serif / sans-serif anywhere in the ePub then there may be no way to prevent the KBJ fonts being loaded unless the ePub is edited before sideloading or the firmware is patched.
This could be bad news for reading ePubs, not only do the KBJ fonts have no bold or italic glyphs, but they use far more memory than Georgia and Avenir and could make reading ePubs slow or impossible on devices with limited available memory (e.g. older devices with lots of books and sideloaded fonts like my Glo.)
I've always had problems on my Glo whenever I selected one of the KBJ fonts, ever since they were first added, but until now I could easily avoid the problems simply by not selecting them. I think this change is a big mistake by Kobo.