This patch allows you to customise various parts of the new 'scrubber'. The 'scrubber' is the navigation/progressbar which pops up at the bottom of the screen when you tap to bring up the in-book menus.
It will be of most use to those who read books in languages not officially supported by Kobo, e.g. Russian, Vietnamese, where Kobo's default Avenir font is a poor choice for displaying the necessary unicode characters for chapter names.
It can also be used by those who just want to change the scrubber's cosmetic appearance.
Part 1: Customise these 3 buttons:
- Left & Right 'Back to page nnn'
- Current chapter name (bottom left, next to TOC icon)
- 1a. Change font-size (by model)
- 1b. Change other font properties, e.g. font-family, bold, italic ... and anything else you can do with CSS
Part 2: Customise central 'Page x of y' label
- 2a. Change font-size (by model)
- 2b. Change other font properties, similar to 1b.
N.B:- If you customise any font-family and after install/reboot you still do not see the new font being used in the scrubber, please see help notes at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...90&postcount=2
- *** This patch is not suitable for Japanese/Chinese locale users ***
In the attached screenshots:
- Image 1: Shows an unpatched Kobo with an English book.
- Image 2: Shows the same book after patching with cosmetic customisation. (Whether I made it better or worse is subjective
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- in 1a. reduce font-size slightly
- in 2a. increase font-size
- in 1b. & 2b. use sideloaded Bookerly font, un-bolded
- in 1b. make the 3 buttons look more like buttons and less like labels by using a light-grey background.
- in 2b. remove forced UPPERCASE
- Image 3: Shows an unpatched Kobo with a book with chapter names containing Cyrillic characters.
Note how poor Avenir and the fallback font are for this Kobo-non-supported language.
- Image 4: Shows the same book after patching using the same customisation as Image 2.
Note that customising to use the Bookerly font now displays Cyrillic better.