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Originally Posted by porkupan
We got a working font substitution fix, which doesn't have to be fully uninstalled (just disabled) for OS upgrades. There is an uninstall package with this hack, of course (to fully deinstall it).
Google Translate may help with the instructions a little bit. 
To disable the font substitution hack, the AUTO file in linkfonts folder needs to be renamed into something else, and the Kindle needs to be rebooted (restarted). Then the fonts in linkfonts directory may be replaced with some other custom fonts, the firmware can be upgraded, etc. To re-enable the font substitution, the AUTO needs to be renamed back to AUTO, and the Kindle needs to be restarted. That's pretty much the long and the short of it. |
Thanks porkupan!
I'd finally tried your font hack, everything is so good.
And peple in my local forum are rushing to use it.
I’ve noticed some incidents involving misspelling of font filenames and, from my local forum, deletion of several font files. I saw one on your site's reply section so it happens globally.
We all know things happen, because they can happen.
May I suggest that you could modify the hack's init script to check the files in the 'fonts' directory for their existence first and if something is missing then abort whole thing, just like when 'AUTO' file isn't there or use default one for the missing one.
It would be only about 15 extra lines, but it will sure give some peace of mind to those who use it.
