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stumped · 12-20-2018, 05:49 AM

-> Diapdealer - you explained it while I was typing my message, I and i had that same realisation in mid-type. thanks

strange
in the back up file I see Caecilia, but in the book view of the new install I see Arial

maybe I got in a muddle, i had a lot of trouble with this PC, it developed a small bug that I could not fix, so I tried to force an update from 1803 to 1809 but that failed twice, and rolled back. Then I found a registry backup from a couple of weeks earlier which I had downloaded from a reputable? so I thought link. i restored registry from that, hoping it might fix the original bug, but it corrupted my one and only user profile, so I had no choice but to clean install. without a 2nd user profile to log into I could not see a bypass for that, though google has some complicated ones that might have worked

anyway - going around the loop I can recreate the bug
i told you what was in the back up file. I close trhe new sigil, overwrite app fdata with that old folder, open a book, and book view is back to showing ariel ???

bulb icon time! I think I have the answer. that caecilia font is not in this clean install, its not a windows font. I must have pulled it from a kindle so that myu book view on PC resembled what I was going to see on tablets.
sigil cant access a font that is not there so it is defaulting back to Ariel.

i need ot recall how i got that font in to windows last time around and go do it again

[user_preferences]
rename_template=
view_state=30
book_view_font_family_standard=Caecilia LT Medium
clean_on=3
default_metadata_lang=en
user_dictionary_name=default
book_view_font_family_serif=Caecilia LT Medium
default_version=2.0
ui_language=en

12-20-2018, 05:49 AM	#4
stumped Wizard Posts: 3,305 Karma: 10259306 Join Date: May 2016 Device: kobo forma, Kobo Libra, Huawei media Tab, fire HD10, PW3 HDX8.9,	-> Diapdealer - you explained it while I was typing my message, I and i had that same realisation in mid-type. thanks strange in the back up file I see Caecilia, but in the book view of the new install I see Arial maybe I got in a muddle, i had a lot of trouble with this PC, it developed a small bug that I could not fix, so I tried to force an update from 1803 to 1809 but that failed twice, and rolled back. Then I found a registry backup from a couple of weeks earlier which I had downloaded from a reputable? so I thought link. i restored registry from that, hoping it might fix the original bug, but it corrupted my one and only user profile, so I had no choice but to clean install. without a 2nd user profile to log into I could not see a bypass for that, though google has some complicated ones that might have worked anyway - going around the loop I can recreate the bug i told you what was in the back up file. I close trhe new sigil, overwrite app fdata with that old folder, open a book, and book view is back to showing ariel ??? bulb icon time! I think I have the answer. that caecilia font is not in this clean install, its not a windows font. I must have pulled it from a kindle so that myu book view on PC resembled what I was going to see on tablets. sigil cant access a font that is not there so it is defaulting back to Ariel. i need ot recall how i got that font in to windows last time around and go do it again [user_preferences] rename_template= view_state=30 book_view_font_family_standard=Caecilia LT Medium clean_on=3 default_metadata_lang=en user_dictionary_name=default book_view_font_family_serif=Caecilia LT Medium default_version=2.0 ui_language=en Last edited by stumped; 12-20-2018 at 05:52 AM.