Other font on PW ?

aceflor · 11-02-2012, 02:39 AM

For those who actually have one (just sayin') or know well about kindle (just sayin' again), how is it that you can use your own font on your Kindle using Calibre?

I remember especially Blossom talking about that, but when I give "fonts" in the search I get thousands of posts and I am not finding what I want.
I know the fonts hack for PW is not working, of if it is it looks super complicated for me right now. There was a way with Calibre without jailbreaking anything, and Blossom had this fantastic font for it too, which I should have somewhere, but how was it done again ?

I don't need necessarily a fulll explanation, a link to the relevant post will suffice....

peter12345 · 11-02-2012, 02:47 AM

I also asked about this, though I do not have paper-white. The answer I got was that it was too early for a simple answer about hacking. Many of the hackers do not even have a paper-white....

aceflor · 11-02-2012, 02:50 AM

As I said "There was a way with Calibre without jailbreaking anything", so we are not talking about the hack right now.

Edited to say : I will search again but in the Calibre forum this time.

sparklemotion · 11-02-2012, 10:46 AM

Maybe this link will help? I'm not sure if you can do this on the PW though.

http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/201...ooks-no-hacks/

NiLuJe · 11-02-2012, 11:04 AM

Not on the Touch/PW. (I in fact disabled that whole panel in the Collections Plugin on those devices).

There was one way to do it on the Touch on vanilla devices (cf. some posts by eureka in the K5 Fonts Hack thread), but it wasn't particularly pretty/user-friendly, and I'm not sure it's doable anymore on the PW.

TL;DR: Not until someone ports a Fonts hack. (And it's somewhat low on the TODO list of most of us right now

).

aceflor · 11-02-2012, 12:55 PM

je te hais

JoHunt · 11-02-2012, 01:06 PM

Upgrade to Calibre 0.9.5. You can now add fonts via "embed font family" in look and feel.

From the release notes:

Quote:

Embedding fonts: Allow adding ttf/otf font files to calibre directly to be used for embedding. That way the fonts do not have to be installed system wide. You can add a font to calibre via the 'Add fonts' button in the font chooser dialog for embedding fonts.

Convert ebook to AZ3. Transfer to Calibre and "publisher" font is an option in the font menu

eureka · 11-02-2012, 05:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

There was one way to do it on the Touch on vanilla devices (cf. some posts by eureka in the K5 Fonts Hack thread), but it wasn't particularly pretty/user-friendly, and I'm not sure it's doable anymore on the PW.

Be sure, it's not doable on PW 5.2.0 (according to results of my digging in firmware guts).

NiLuJe · 11-02-2012, 06:21 PM

@eureka: Thanks for the confirmation

.

11-02-2012, 02:39 AM	#1
aceflor Wizard Posts: 3,472 Karma: 48036360 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: where the sun lives, or so they say Device: Pocketbook Era, Pocketbook Inkpad 4, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Scribe	Other font on PW ? For those who actually have one (just sayin') or know well about kindle (just sayin' again), how is it that you can use your own font on your Kindle using Calibre? I remember especially Blossom talking about that, but when I give "fonts" in the search I get thousands of posts and I am not finding what I want. I know the fonts hack for PW is not working, of if it is it looks super complicated for me right now. There was a way with Calibre without jailbreaking anything, and Blossom had this fantastic font for it too, which I should have somewhere, but how was it done again ? I don't need necessarily a fulll explanation, a link to the relevant post will suffice....

11-02-2012, 02:50 AM	#3
aceflor Wizard Posts: 3,472 Karma: 48036360 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: where the sun lives, or so they say Device: Pocketbook Era, Pocketbook Inkpad 4, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Scribe	As I said "There was a way with Calibre without jailbreaking anything", so we are not talking about the hack right now. Edited to say : I will search again but in the Calibre forum this time. Last edited by aceflor; 11-02-2012 at 03:01 AM.

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peter12345 Connoisseur Posts: 93 Karma: 498332 Join Date: Jun 2012 Device: 2 * K3 with 3G, Sony PRS-T1	I also asked about this, though I do not have paper-white. The answer I got was that it was too early for a simple answer about hacking. Many of the hackers do not even have a paper-white....

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sparklemotion dangerous when cornered Posts: 1,855 Karma: 22891237 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: USA Device: Kobo H2O, Kindle Paperwhite	Maybe this link will help? I'm not sure if you can do this on the PW though. http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/201...ooks-no-hacks/

11-02-2012, 11:04 AM	#5
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047190 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	Not on the Touch/PW. (I in fact disabled that whole panel in the Collections Plugin on those devices). There was one way to do it on the Touch on vanilla devices (cf. some posts by eureka in the K5 Fonts Hack thread), but it wasn't particularly pretty/user-friendly, and I'm not sure it's doable anymore on the PW. TL;DR: Not until someone ports a Fonts hack. (And it's somewhat low on the TODO list of most of us right now ).

11-02-2012, 12:55 PM	#6
aceflor Wizard Posts: 3,472 Karma: 48036360 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: where the sun lives, or so they say Device: Pocketbook Era, Pocketbook Inkpad 4, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Scribe	je te hais

11-02-2012, 06:21 PM	#9
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047190 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@eureka: Thanks for the confirmation .

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