Trying to get Stock .otf files out of my PW3.

rvcjew · 09-16-2019, 06:23 AM

Hi, I'm trying to get the stock helvetica.otf files out of the stock firmware bin for the PW3. I a long time ago somehow got the helvetica nue LT 75 Bold.otf out of the device somehow and now I want to get the LT medium 65 otf now. I made it a ttf and use it on my Boyue devices but would like a non bold variant now. I have so far used the Kindletool to extract the factory bin and cant find a single .otf in there. Where are the stock fonts actually on the PW3 it self, I was under the impression they were in usr/share/fonts?
I also have the PW3 still jailbroken on 5.9.2 with KUAL for reference if you know how to get them out of it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Malcolm

NiLuJe · 09-16-2019, 09:54 AM

They're now in a squashfs image, I don't recall the exact location OTOH, and I have no idea how to deal with that outside of Linux anyway.

ilovejedd · 09-16-2019, 09:57 AM

From the firmware update.bin:

rootfs/usr/java/lib/fonts.sqsh

I'm on Windows so I used 7-zip to extract the font files from the sqsh package. Dunno what the terminal commands are for Linux.

shamanNS · 09-16-2019, 10:14 AM

@ilovejedd: Hehe, nice one. Didn't realize that I could use 7-zip to open squashfs image (at all, let alone while it is still inside a firware img )

No need to boot Linux Mint inside VMware (last time I've tried [Windows 10's] Windows Subsystem for Linux [Ubuntu 18.04] refused to mount the image) and mount the image file.

rvcjew · 09-16-2019, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

From the firmware update.bin:

rootfs/usr/java/lib/fonts.sqsh

I'm on Windows so I used 7-zip to extract the font files from the sqsh package. Dunno what the terminal commands are for Linux.

OMG, thank you so much. Once I knew that all I needed to do was use 7 zip like stated man I can't believe I know about squashfs for other things in my work and still spent like 2 hours not noticing that file lol.
Malcolm

knc1 · 09-16-2019, 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shamanNS

@ilovejedd: Hehe, nice one. Didn't realize that I could use 7-zip to open squashfs image (at all, let alone while it is still inside a firware img )

No need to boot Linux Mint inside VMware (last time I've tried [Windows 10's] Windows Subsystem for Linux [Ubuntu 18.04] refused to mount the image) and mount the image file.

MS "Windows Subsystem for Linux" is nowhere a complete emulation.
It can't be, some of the functionality of Linux is not present in MS-Windows.
File system services for instance.

j.p.s · 09-16-2019, 04:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knc1

MS "Windows Subsystem for Linux" is nowhere a complete emulation.
It can't be, some of the functionality of Linux is not present in MS-Windows.
File system services for instance.

On the other hand, the linux stuff is all documented and even has a reference implementation. M$ could easily afford to write their own.

shamanNS · 09-17-2019, 06:35 PM

@knc1: IIRC latest (or future?) Win10 Insider builds should come with WSL 2 that will use an actual (custom built) Linux kernel (instead of translating calls to NT kernel)?

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel

09-16-2019, 06:23 AM	#1
rvcjew Addict Posts: 396 Karma: 2157838 Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: USA,CA Device: PW3-T80S-T80D-T103D-K78-Inkpalm 5-HiSense Touch-Hi Reader Pro-Palma	Trying to get Stock .otf files out of my PW3. Hi, I'm trying to get the stock helvetica.otf files out of the stock firmware bin for the PW3. I a long time ago somehow got the helvetica nue LT 75 Bold.otf out of the device somehow and now I want to get the LT medium 65 otf now. I made it a ttf and use it on my Boyue devices but would like a non bold variant now. I have so far used the Kindletool to extract the factory bin and cant find a single .otf in there. Where are the stock fonts actually on the PW3 it self, I was under the impression they were in usr/share/fonts? I also have the PW3 still jailbroken on 5.9.2 with KUAL for reference if you know how to get them out of it. Any help would be appreciated. Malcolm

09-17-2019, 06:35 PM	#8
shamanNS Wizard Posts: 1,115 Karma: 12345678 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Serbia Device: Kindle PW5, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle PW1	@knc1: IIRC latest (or future?) Win10 Insider builds should come with WSL 2 that will use an actual (custom built) Linux kernel (instead of translating calls to NT kernel)? https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel Last edited by shamanNS; 09-17-2019 at 06:40 PM.

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NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	They're now in a squashfs image, I don't recall the exact location OTOH, and I have no idea how to deal with that outside of Linux anyway.

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ilovejedd hopeless n00b Posts: 5,110 Karma: 19597086 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: in the middle of nowhere Device: PW4, PW3, Libra H2O, iPad 10.5, iPad 11, iPad 12.9	From the firmware update.bin: rootfs/usr/java/lib/fonts.sqsh I'm on Windows so I used 7-zip to extract the font files from the sqsh package. Dunno what the terminal commands are for Linux.

09-16-2019, 10:14 AM	#4
shamanNS Wizard Posts: 1,115 Karma: 12345678 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Serbia Device: Kindle PW5, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle PW1	@ilovejedd: Hehe, nice one. Didn't realize that I could use 7-zip to open squashfs image (at all, let alone while it is still inside a firware img ) No need to boot Linux Mint inside VMware (last time I've tried [Windows 10's] Windows Subsystem for Linux [Ubuntu 18.04] refused to mount the image) and mount the image file.

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