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Quoth · 09-05-2021, 06:38 AM

It's a font partially designed for less than 100 dpi CRTs and LCD screens and partially for laser printers. Georgia works better on eink?

Also there are different MS releases of Times New Roman. Earlier ones lack characters but I think ALL have á é í ó ú à è ì ò ù ß ç etc.

I've never added a font to the system on the Kindle (permanently) or Kobo as I want to see what other users see, but I do use embedded fonts, which needs Kindle FW 3.4.3 or later. Earlier versions (KK2, DX, DXG etc) can only use fonts installed on the Kindle.

Either you've installed a broken version of Times New Roman or installed it wrong. I did "jailbreak" my DXG so as to have a sleep cover from the current book and briefly installed a system font "patch", which looked like Times New Roman.

I have the MS Core Fonts package on Linux (for compatibility) and it includes a Times New Roman which seems to work fine on a KK3 & PW3 as an embedded font in a test.

09-05-2021, 06:38 AM	#3
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,235 Karma: 105299897 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	It's a font partially designed for less than 100 dpi CRTs and LCD screens and partially for laser printers. Georgia works better on eink? Also there are different MS releases of Times New Roman. Earlier ones lack characters but I think ALL have á é í ó ú à è ì ò ù ß ç etc. I've never added a font to the system on the Kindle (permanently) or Kobo as I want to see what other users see, but I do use embedded fonts, which needs Kindle FW 3.4.3 or later. Earlier versions (KK2, DX, DXG etc) can only use fonts installed on the Kindle. Either you've installed a broken version of Times New Roman or installed it wrong. I did "jailbreak" my DXG so as to have a sleep cover from the current book and briefly installed a system font "patch", which looked like Times New Roman. I have the MS Core Fonts package on Linux (for compatibility) and it includes a Times New Roman which seems to work fine on a KK3 & PW3 as an embedded font in a test.