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Old 04-29-2023, 01:33 PM   #1
Drou
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Sideloading files written in Greek

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this but I've tried a couple of times to create an epub with Greek text and sideload it to my Kobo Libra 2. Both times it was just a basic word document that I copy pasted the text into (nothing copyrighted I'd like to add!) and then uploaded to calibre and converted.

When I pasted, I chose to keep text only and the font on Word was the default calibri. The epubs all turn out ok, they look great when I open using calibre ereader or ADE. The problem comes when I sideload to the Kobo (have tried as epub and kepub). The text is still in Greek but not in the original font and any spaces, paragraphs etc all seem to get lost. Basically, it is not easy to read at all. Both times I've ended up just converting the file to a pdf but this is not ideal as this makes the font size too small. I've searched the Kobo store and they do sell books in Greek - I've downloaded some samples and unsurprisingly had no issues with the text being in Greek.

Does anyone know whether I need to use a specific font compatible with Kobo and which one? Do I need to download a font to my Kobo maybe? And how do I do this please? Thanks for any help!

P.S. Calibre is really not intuitive for me at all and I know nothing about coding, programming or creating scripts whatsoever - if the answer involves any of these things please imagine I'm an 80 year old luddite (even though I'm not lol) and explain it to me step by step as you would to them XD
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