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quillaja · 11-02-2009, 01:19 AM

While I haven't tested Hebrew, I have tired making some books display Japanese text with reflow (using ePub). I found that the only problem was that the sony reader (prs-600 in my case) doesn't have built-in fonts for Japanese text. I got around this problem my embedding the font into the file myself. You could try that method if you have the ability to alter your files (and they are ePub).

I've seen stuff about people hacking their reader to use alternative fonts, and you might explore that method to substitute Hebrew fonts, but I'd be cautious about hacking it.

PDFs can work because (1) the pdf has embedded fonts or (2) they are scans. For your DOC files, you'll have to convert them to RTF for the reader to display them (that's what the sony software does when you import DOC files). Of course, DOC files support embedded fonts, but I don't know if RTF does. That said, I only used RTF once on my reader, and it seemed to use the same font as in the original Word DOC (Calibri). Because I doubt that the sony reader has Calibri font on it, I can only assume that the RTF somehow had Calibri embedded into it. However, I haven't tested that assumption at all.

Those are just some observations I've had about non-western fonts on the sony reader.

11-02-2009, 01:19 AM	#10
quillaja Connoisseur Posts: 79 Karma: 42 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: sony reader touch (prs-600)	While I haven't tested Hebrew, I have tired making some books display Japanese text with reflow (using ePub). I found that the only problem was that the sony reader (prs-600 in my case) doesn't have built-in fonts for Japanese text. I got around this problem my embedding the font into the file myself. You could try that method if you have the ability to alter your files (and they are ePub). I've seen stuff about people hacking their reader to use alternative fonts, and you might explore that method to substitute Hebrew fonts, but I'd be cautious about hacking it. PDFs can work because (1) the pdf has embedded fonts or (2) they are scans. For your DOC files, you'll have to convert them to RTF for the reader to display them (that's what the sony software does when you import DOC files). Of course, DOC files support embedded fonts, but I don't know if RTF does. That said, I only used RTF once on my reader, and it seemed to use the same font as in the original Word DOC (Calibri). Because I doubt that the sony reader has Calibri font on it, I can only assume that the RTF somehow had Calibri embedded into it. However, I haven't tested that assumption at all. Those are just some observations I've had about non-western fonts on the sony reader.