Glo How to read Chinese on kobo glo

[tinkabelle]

I downloaded the fonts simsun.ttf and mingliu.ttf onto the glo. but they do not show up on the Aa font menu. i restarted the ereader, same thing. i have chinese files in both epub and txt format, and neither can be read.

the fonts downloaded are 1kb each. is that too small? if so, then i might not have the right versions of the fonts. is there any way that you have to name them to get them to show on the fonts menu?

i also downloaded 'unifont', 15.5MB which does show on the menu, reads Chinese, except it is unnatural looking, ugly and bolds in all the wrong places.

anyone got any idea what i should do? also, if anyone knows a free and easy to use chinese ebook site, that'd be useful too (once i get the font sorted out).

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by tinkabelle

I downloaded the fonts simsun.ttf and mingliu.ttf onto the glo. but they do not show up on the Aa font menu. i restarted the ereader, same thing. i have chinese files in both epub and txt format, and neither can be read.

the fonts downloaded are 1kb each. is that too small? if so, then i might not have the right versions of the fonts. is there any way that you have to name them to get them to show on the fonts menu?

i also downloaded 'unifont', 15.5MB which does show on the menu, reads Chinese, except it is unnatural looking, ugly and bolds in all the wrong places.

anyone got any idea what i should do? also, if anyone knows a free and easy to use chinese ebook site, that'd be useful too (once i get the font sorted out).

The font files sizes you mention are way too small. I suspect that if you open them with Notepad, you'd see text such as "File Not Found". When I downloaded simsun.ttf from the FontPalace site, it was around 10MB.

You might also want to check the code2000 font.

Regards,
David

[blindman]

Originally Posted by tinkabelle

I downloaded the fonts simsun.ttf and mingliu.ttf onto the glo. but they do not show up on the Aa font menu. i restarted the ereader, same thing. i have chinese files in both epub and txt format, and neither can be read.

the fonts downloaded are 1kb each. is that too small? if so, then i might not have the right versions of the fonts. is there any way that you have to name them to get them to show on the fonts menu?

i also downloaded 'unifont', 15.5MB which does show on the menu, reads Chinese, except it is unnatural looking, ugly and bolds in all the wrong places.

anyone got any idea what i should do? also, if anyone knows a free and easy to use chinese ebook site, that'd be useful too (once i get the font sorted out).

try use this fonts

http://pan.baidu.com/share/link?shar...&uk=2097378757

[fxp33]

Hi,

Here are the links I use for Asian fonts:

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_ChineseSimplified.html

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Chi...aditional.html

You can also use the "droid sans fallback (full)" font: https://github.com/android/platform_...ter/data/fonts

Of course, you can also use, for testing purposes, some copyrighted fonts like Arial Unicode MS.

Hope this helps.

Francois

[tinkabelle]

Originally Posted by blindman

try use this fonts

http://pan.baidu.com/share/link?shar...&uk=2097378757

this one works perfectly - i recommend this for anyone trying to read chinese on a kobo.

do away with all that simsun/mingliu crap - there were so many words missing on those - i deleted these fonts.

i found that they only work with epub files, and not txt files. is there a chinese font that works with txt files? not a big deal.

[tinkabelle]

by the way, what are some good sites to download chinese ebooks?