Thread: what have new the firmware 5.12.3?
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Old 01-27-2020, 04:55 PM   #79
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Originally Posted by xl743 View Post
What's new in the firmware 5.12.3?
New ugly "Bookerly" font. Before this firmware update Bookerly was great, but Amazon updated the font to 1.201 version and took away hinting data from it. So now freetype library (font rasterization software Kindle devices use) switches to "autohinting" mode and letters got uneven heights, especially with non-Latin characters.
Yup. To document further on my PW3. Though misalignments Jhowell and Jack426 reported can't be observed in my screenshots at size 5 and Boldness 1,

Bookerly v1.020 (from firmware 5.12.1)
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Bookerly v1.201 (from firmware 5.12.3)
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Show the hinting difference.
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