Thread: Find fallback font?
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Old 12-27-2022, 02:07 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin View Post
What indeed! Unfortunately, the font is not Unicode, so neither my default Sage fallback of Arial Unicode nor the Noto Sans fonts will render it. BUT, but Hooray for Kovid and Calibre!

The Calibre editor showed me the 2 embedded fonts, and I was able to save them first to my PC (where they opened fine in the font previewer) then to my device, where the de-drm'd epub now renders just fine, in both languages. Kovid 1 - Kobo 0
You appear to be saying that the book, as purchased from Kobo, did already have the correct fonts embedded. Assuming you're using one of Kobo's own reading apps (not KOReader) they would also expect you to follow their standard advice of setting the font in the Kobo [Aa] menu to 'Publisher Default' to see embedded fonts correctly. Is that what you did?

Fallback fonts only work in kepub but if the embedded fonts are adequate you shouldn't need fallbacks anyway.
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