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db100 · 01-02-2007, 02:32 PM

THere are two tricky things:

1) There is a so file, called libfreetype.so.6.3.10, there's a link for this so file, called libfreetype.so.lnk. When you build your opt.fs, the path in link file is the path of your computer, not path in your SONY Reader, you need modify it by hand.

2) Once you put your user fonts under /FONT directory, you need to rebuild fonts database. If you ever tryed update fonts in linux, that's pretty much the same procedure, I guess (it is just the guess now)

Tell you, I studied all so called successful stories about implant user fonts reported here, they are very much fake. At least the Korean story is not true. The Russian story, they modified tt0003m_.ttf, since Russian fonts is not like Korean or Japanese, it is very small, so I don't think that's a standard procedure.

01-02-2007, 02:32 PM	#1
db100 Member Posts: 19 Karma: 52 Join Date: Dec 2006	Finally understand how to put user fonts on Sony Reader! THere are two tricky things: 1) There is a so file, called libfreetype.so.6.3.10, there's a link for this so file, called libfreetype.so.lnk. When you build your opt.fs, the path in link file is the path of your computer, not path in your SONY Reader, you need modify it by hand. 2) Once you put your user fonts under /FONT directory, you need to rebuild fonts database. If you ever tryed update fonts in linux, that's pretty much the same procedure, I guess (it is just the guess now) Tell you, I studied all so called successful stories about implant user fonts reported here, they are very much fake. At least the Korean story is not true. The Russian story, they modified tt0003m_.ttf, since Russian fonts is not like Korean or Japanese, it is very small, so I don't think that's a standard procedure.