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FYI, most of the in house Amazon fonts saw updates in the latest Kindle firmware. For example, Bookerly is now at 1.201 up from 1.020 and Amazon Ember is at 1.401 up from 1.010. From what I can tell, many more glyphs have been added.
Now I have a question: Why is it when I edit just the PANOSE data in Fontforge that sometimes the file size of the altered font is many times bigger? For example, stock Bookerly is 259KB but after editing or running sherman's koboify/readify scripts, the file size is over 1MB (disabling things like hinting or kern table has a negligible effect on reducing file size). Am I doing something wrong or is there a setting I'm missing? I'm starting to run into lack of RAM issues due to my insanely large database, so I've had to take out a bunch of fonts that I used to have because with the new Amazon fonts, my Glo HD would reboot whenever I tried to change fonts. Loading the stock font files helped, except they would then render incorrectly because of the incorrect PANOSE weights. Any suggestions on the proper Fontforge settings? Or is there another tool out there that will let me edit just the PANOSE data without regenerating everything?
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