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corinthian · 08-16-2020, 06:50 AM

Hi all, I've been through this post and many others trying to find a solution for the Bookerly bold italic issue and in my case, the only one that worked was using FontForge to change the panose weight. I tried three or four different naming conventions, and had no luck with any of them. This was with v1.000 and v1.020 of the font. So for anyone who is in my situation, to save them wading through many threads across the forum, a summary of the solution is as follows:

- The -Bold and -BoldItalic files are fine, and do not need modification
- The -Regular and -Italic files both have a panose weight of Medium, which is problematic according to jackie_w's explanation: "Instead of values Medium/Demi Kobo expects values of Book/Bold respectively."
- jackie-w provides clear instructions as to how to change the panose weight here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...81&postcount=9

I would like to add that another user in the Kindle sub has created a set of slightly modified Bookerly files, with font hints removed and em-size corrected from 1000 to 2048:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...67#post4023567
They present the same issue with bold italic text but again, the fix is a simple one in FontForge using jackie_w's instructions. There is a portable version if anyone doesn't want to install another program.

Obviously I'm not presenting any new information, just trying to summarise jackie_w's and raghiid's info.

08-16-2020, 06:50 AM	#63
corinthian Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Malaga, Spain Device: Kobo Libra H20	Hi all, I've been through this post and many others trying to find a solution for the Bookerly bold italic issue and in my case, the only one that worked was using FontForge to change the panose weight. I tried three or four different naming conventions, and had no luck with any of them. This was with v1.000 and v1.020 of the font. So for anyone who is in my situation, to save them wading through many threads across the forum, a summary of the solution is as follows: - The -Bold and -BoldItalic files are fine, and do not need modification - The -Regular and -Italic files both have a panose weight of Medium, which is problematic according to jackie_w's explanation: "Instead of values Medium/Demi Kobo expects values of Book/Bold respectively." - jackie-w provides clear instructions as to how to change the panose weight here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...81&postcount=9 I would like to add that another user in the Kindle sub has created a set of slightly modified Bookerly files, with font hints removed and em-size corrected from 1000 to 2048: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...67#post4023567 They present the same issue with bold italic text but again, the fix is a simple one in FontForge using jackie_w's instructions. There is a portable version if anyone doesn't want to install another program. Obviously I'm not presenting any new information, just trying to summarise jackie_w's and raghiid's info.